Ireland is run by gang of bamby thugs who are using music to wage psychological war on the working class.
gearidocolmin.substack.com
What is the relevance of this today? The Taoiseach(prime minister) and Tánaiste ( foreign minister) recently tweeted on X, congratulating a musical ‘artist’ called Bamby Thug. She is an Irish singer who is going to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest. The reader by now is disappointed. He looks up the artist in question. He sees that she is mentally deranged. She screams like a wild animal at press conferences. She says she is “queer”, and she wants to convert the world to witchcraft. Why, the reader will enquire, has the register of our enquiry, descended from lofty disquisitions about the meaning of music to commentary on pop culture?
Obviously, popular music does not belong to the same category as classical. Pop music is the repetition of simple constructions. Classical music is the composition of complex structures. But the kind of question we want to ask here is best expressed in French: Bamby Thug de quoi est-elle le nom? What does Bamby Thug's name mean or signify?