Indeed. Indeed.
Creative angst is often a form of escapism (or psychological tourism) for the audience and even the greatest angsters (and I am partial to some of them) were no strangers to putting on a show of some kind or another - Curtis, Eldritch, Cohen, Cave, Harvey, Cash, Gaye, Walker, Piaf, Holiday, Smith (Bessie not Robert), Brel etc etc.
Self-importance without substance is one thing. Being seriously silly on a grand scale quite another. That's what differentiates DLR from say Jim Kerr and Kiss from Limp whatsits.
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