The reason Lulu is so terrible is because the people making this music clearly don’t care if anyone else enjoys it. Now, here again — if viewed in a vacuum — that sentiment is admirable and important. But we don’t live in a vacuum. We live on Earth. And that means we have to accept the real-life consequences of a culture in which recorded music no longer has monetary value, and one of those consequences is Lulu.
— If I had never heard music before, and played the new Lou Reed / Metallica album, I would write off “music” as a lousy idea and go back to listening to car alarms and my upstairs neighbors bonking all night for entertainment.
