‘A Trauma Called Future’: The Disenchanted Rock of Biznaga
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https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.282024.30281Keywords:
Rock, Songwriting, Pop Music, Y Genereation, PunkAbstract
The following analysis shows how Biznaga has built in his fourth studio album, Bremen no existe (2022), a disenchanted portrait of his own generation. Also, how a current band can develop its creativity from a project that goes against the tide in commercial and stylistic aspects and combine punk and pop values. To this end, both the musical elements that affect the style of the songs are studied (tempo, melody, instrumentation, arrangements, etc.), as well as the literary elaboration of the lyrics, with special attention given to their topics, their textual structure and their rhetoric. Within popular music, and despite its current consideration as a minority genre, rock preserves in this album its expressive and communicative capacity through uncommon strategies that, however, exploit the possibilities that the song has traditionally offered as a discourse.
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