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judge smith – but is it art? lyrics

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sampled drum loops like this are referred to as ‘beats’
and you can use them straight out of the box
this fake stuff often sounds lifeless and dull
but just occasionally it rocks
and originally, someone must have hit those drums
maybe ten, maybe twenty years back
some anonymous, hard+working session player
in a cheap los angeles twenty+four track

perhaps the technology brings things together
or perhaps the technology splits them apart
but i swear i can hear that drummer laughing. he says
‘it’s clever, but is it art?’
it’s clever, but is it art?

but the rest of the drumming on this record
comes from a human pair of hands
rené van commenée, who recorded his tracks
in utrecht, in the netherlands

and michael keeps his organs and accordions and so forth
more than fifty miles away
so he’s recorded all his stuff over there
it’s how a lot of music’s done today

i don’t have some post+modern structural agenda
i’m not having a bit of conceptual fun
it’s just that given the time, and given the budget
this is just how things came to be done. (but it made me think…)

so did this technology bring us together
or did this technology keep us apart?
the devil sat on my shoulder and whispered
‘it’s clever, but is it art?’
it’s clever, but is it art?

only fury’s here in the studio with me
two grumpy old men rocking out
but look! he’s still playing the bass, but now he’s got his guitar
i mean… jesus! what’s that all about?

all music’s done with smoke and mirrors
it’s truths always come with a dash of deceit
mozart’s got more tricks than a barrel of monkeys
even bach and beethoven cheat

but do the smoke and mirrors bring the music together
or do the monkey tricks blow the music apart?
and the music critics in their powdered wigs said
‘it’s clever, but is it art?’
it’s clever, but is it art?

is it effortless trash, or honest endeavour?
is it one off the wrist, or one from the heart?
these are serious, pertinent questions
but you just know some fool’s gonna start with
‘it’s clever, but is it art?’

my studio computer was built in korea
the os comes from the usa
while my software is splendidly german
in a ‘vorsprung durch technic’ kind of way

and whether we can bring the whole world together
or we finally manage to crack it apart
in a thousand years, they’ll define us
by the fragments of what we call art
the clever stuff that we call art

- judge smith lyrics

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