Trying to read this book (although I can’t comprehend much of it) and it hints at something I believe has been going on for quite some time.
”Second order, associated with the modernity of the Industrial Revolution, where distinctions between representation and reality break down due to the proliferation of mass-reproducible copies of items, turning them into commodities. The commodity's ability to imitate reality threatens to replace the authority of the original version, because the copy is just as "real" as its prototype.”
Remember when it was Wolfmother? I think maybe GVF lean too hard as derivative. A simulacrum of an original that people will accept as though it were original. I can’t get angry because I’m a hypocrite. There are so many bands I listen to that do the same thing!