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Ah, The Police. That actually predates the song I had in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Da_Da https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Da_Da

• kstenerud 3y ago
  Yes, the Trio song was a bit of a special case. Remmler was attempting to deconstruct and critique the genre, and was well aware of how the mindlessly repetitive and simplistic and musically boring the core was once all the frills were stripped away. That was actually the whole point, as can be seen in the video they did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTBlft8gQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTBlft8gQA The fact that it became a chart hit only proved his point - kinda like the cow clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker And just in case that didn't hammer it home, the remastered video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm97VG_QIXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm97VG_QIXI Notice how bored everyone looks. The sheer lack of energy. The guy pausing to light a cigarette and mount it on his guitar. The repetitive wave of the "audience" that holds awful, amateurish drawings of their faces (i.e. any moron with a synth could produce this crap). It's a bit like looking at Picasso's bull in a grotesquely comical way...