Friday, June 15, 2012

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Of course sincere feeling doesn't disqualify something from being camp. Far from it. The question always is: do you read a given performance on the level of its original (or what you might call "intended") emotional or aesthetic context? Or do you read it ironically, on the basis of the unintended hilarity that those overwrought aesthetics produce, as with camp? With Pearl Jam, the answer for me is somehow both.

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