Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art | Jonathan Jones

The Canadian band turn to art history on their latest album. And get it spot-on"Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids," suggest Arcade Fire in the most powerful song on their latest album, The Suburbs). In Rococo those kids are talking, "using big words that they don't understand/They say/Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo/Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo … "Rococo is indeed a big word, so let's try and understand it. Europe in the 18th century inherited a fancy and fantastic style of art, gra...

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