Popular Culture
The titular island of the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach is said to be based on Tracy Island in a 'making of' documentary.
A song by the Arctic Monkeys entitled "R U Mine" makes reference to the island as well. The song mentions 'puppets on a string', referring to the Thunderbirds characters, after which it mentions Tracy Island.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)