Oh, good grief! Great and just awful, simultaneously! A bit of an oxymoron - high-talent decadence! Completely toxic!
(I posted this last year too with reference to Lady Gaga): And what is decadence? From Wikipedia:
Used to describe a person's lifestyle, it describes a lack of moral and intellectual discipline, or in the Concise Oxford Dictionary: "a luxurious self-indulgence"I bet Oscar Wilde never thought of great product placement like these two did, but I'm sure he would have known how to characterize it.
....Applied to the arts, decadence implies an elevation of self-indulgence and pretension over effort and talent; when applied to science and the professions, it describes an erosion of professional ethics
....In literature ..."decadents" relished artifice over the earlier Romantics' naive view of nature (see Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
Oscar Wilde gave a curious definition: "Classicism is the subordination of the parts to the whole; decadence is the subordination of the whole to the parts."
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