But it also took a very "objective" viewpoint that took the structural features of white-collar work, and showed how they naturally revealed the vacuousness and bankruptcy of work.
In a new interview, the singer bemoaned the state of radio and expressed concern over the vacuousness of today's music and its effect on younger generations.
No wonder, therefore, that in the eyes of some, celebrity -- especially when it is attained in popular culture -- attaches only notions of vacuousness.
Giddy with its own success, it has replaced rigorous social critique with playful riffs on its own history and back-of-an-envelope pranks, sheltering its vacuousness within ever-present ironic quotation marks.
