Die Young, Stay Pretty

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A track from Blondie’s third, and best, album Eat to the Beat. Neratly expresses the punk sensibility more famously expressed in the Who’s My Generation, and inverts the truism of modernism, which has the causal arrow flowing in the other direction.

See also

• The shock of the new
• Modernism