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open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Edited Aug 29, 2015, 18:23
Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 18:22
Really annoyingly snide article. It doesn't even work on its own terms. For all his many faults, Morrison was never especially solipsistic. "He only ever wrote about himself"- really? Compared to who? Neil Young? John Lennon? Bob Dylan? Actually Morrison probably put less of his actual personal life into his songs than most serious songwriters- he was generally observational, metaphysical, political, or just writing plain old love songs.

Then the writer singles out LA Woman as the exception, which is no better or worse objectively than any other Doors song and certainly not the only example of Morrison writing about something other than himself- presumably this assumption was made just because it has the words 'LA' and 'Woman' in the title.

Then he decides to have a go at teenage aspiring writers who write about their own life, advising them that no-one's interested and they should write about something someone else has already done, like soft porn films from the eighties. Uh-huh. Ever heard the dictum 'write about what you know'?

Yeah tell teenagers that no-one is interested in them. That no-one is interested in anyone else's inner life or experiences. That people should only write cynically ironic articles about vintage popular culture because that's all anyone cares about. Bitter much that your own autobiographical teenage magnum opus was rejected by every publisher you sent it to?

The Doors are an easy target but there's far worse music to get into. Again this is snarky bullshit writing that doesn't even work on any level.

Edit: oh yeah, and keep on rocking, Arroneous.
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