Patrick Bateman would be having a whale of a time. The notorious, fictional 80s murderer from Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel American Psycho loves his pop to be pure pop; Huey Lewis & the News, Phil Collins, excessive, commercial, decadent, aspirational. A style of music that was never cool, and was butchered to death in the '90s by grunge the same way that Bateman would butcher his co-worker Paul Allen with an axe.
But this evening, the sophistipop renaissance that started in the 2010s is complete as The 1975 headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage for the first time. Somehow, these weird little nerds from Manchester have repackaged Deacon Blue, Hue & Cry, Living in a Box and myriad other long forgotten, 80s yuppie-pop bands and successfully sold them to the modern youth. And tonight is their crowning moment of glory.
