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{{comic | number = 4362 | date = January 17, 2017 | title = pop-music | image = 1484669489-20170117.png | votey = 1484669504-20170117after.png | titletext = I think 'anomie' more or less rhymes with 'shake them cheeks.' }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :I have an idea for a song :It features a young man and woman who feel :In which I portray my cultural interest group as put-upon and misunderstood :Shunned by the broader community this feeling drives them into each other's :By society. :Arms. :Ironically, they engage in an entirely conventional act of courtship, sexual relations, and ultimately longterm monogamy. :That sounds pretty typical for pop music. :Yeah, but in my version, they become aware of their own hypocrisy. :Realizing their love affair is so banal that it undoes all the little defiances that made their initial coupling romantic, they fall into a deep state :They discover that the path of cultural rejection is simply one more means of uncovering our basic biological :Conformity :Of ennui. :One of them chooses to make peace with existence as an unexceptional and short-lived mammal, while the other falls into a self-deluding form of spiritual asceticism, whose demands he is incapable of living out. :Their orthogonal strivings for meaning pull apart the knot of human connection that was the one happy thing in either person's life. :I'm not sure it has mainstream potential. :It's called shake that ass, girrrl" :wow. :Okay, that's better :By the end the shaking is an uncontrolled psychosomatic response to a needlessly wasted lifetime. :Now see, you're losing me again. :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :all is dust {{comic discussion}}
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