The article says: "they parodied the stiff, precision-obsessed German stereotype to perfection".
I never had the sense of Kraftwerk as parody, or even as ironic. In fact the opposite. Did I miss something?
I never had the sense of Kraftwerk as parody, or even as ironic. In fact the opposite. Did I miss something?
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Of his decision to stay in the UK, Wehn later wrote:[5]
I initially planned to stay in the UK for only 12 months to improve my English, but the good weather, the tasty food and the classy women made me stay. In order to blend in with the locals, I decided to get extremely lazy, spend money I don't have and, most importantly, to unjustifiably bang on about my great sense of humour
He is a very, very good night out. (Edit: his 2011 tour was entitled My Struggle)
It is respectable parody, also ironic in that it is also trope, not trope. Self referential too.
Great tune!
Being highly self referential comes with some degree of parody, IMHO. I always took the tune that way.