- Music
- 17 Jan 03
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
After having spent the afternoon tearing the house apart looking for that misplaced trademark stampeding drum pattern from ‘Lust For Life’, Iggy Pop finally locates it at the backbone of this apparently hopping-mad anti-celebrity rant by this gaggle of mall-rat punk Sk8er-Bois.
Signifiers of Good Charlotte’s righteous anger on the subject include American-style police-siren noises and a Mohawk-wearer on the record-sleeve, and thank goodness the Charlottes are tackling this important societal problem, ‘cos releasing a mainstream faux-punk anthem about complainy Rolling Stone Magazine cover stars is SO not a corporate-sponsored fish-shoot in a barrel.