If the art of making music that lands perfectly with the contemporary audience is to wrap up a taste of the past in the flavors of the modern age, then “Famous Friend” is your lesson for the day. In fact, it is the best lesson on the subject you will find on any day. It’s a song that struts like The Stones and pouts like Mark Bolan, but it does all that wrapped in the sleazy grooves and alt-glam rock moves of the here and now.
The Mess:Age is a brilliant name for a band, evoking the trash-glam style and sonic confusion of music today, or at least the dark underbelly of it. And “Famous Friend” is a song that evokes all of that, that blend of high art and low morals, glitz and dereliction, drama and dirt. We are all in the gutter…but some of us just love it there!
Taking Deathwish 2 as its subject and “Brown Sugar” as its sonic guardian angel, mentor, and dance instructor, “Famous Friend” is the sort of song that would have had Transvision Vamp and Rachel Stamp wrestling in the dirt to get their hands on. And if The Mess:Age had been watching from the sidelines, no doubt they would have written a song about that, too. And that too would have been awesome.
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