1900 – 1904
Durante cuatro largos años Picasso pintó sólo cuadros monocromáticos de tonos, variaciones y sombras del azul. Esta etapa de su obra es conocida como el “periodo azul”.
Se inició en España, después de que su amigo Carlos Casagemas se suicidara en la primavera de 1901, pero se desarrolló principalmente en Paris.

Esta elaboración catártica del duelo trajo consigo, además del preponderante azul, a prostitutas, mendigos y borrachos como personajes frecuentes de las pinturas.

105 años después Peter Bjorn and John realizan, desde Stockholm, una mirada psicológica profunda acerca de cómo es que se siente y se percibe una pintura del “periodo azul” de Picasso en relación a las demás.

I'm a blue period Picasso stuck on a wall
In the middle of a hall in Barcelona
Trying to figure out how to get down
'Cause this solitude is bringing me down
The paintings around me, they don't understand me
I'm a bit too early, I'm seen as development
Curing adolescence

But I'm not just being blue
'Cause I have fallen, shape and color too
But I miss you
I miss the content
That is the focus, that is what all this school is reading to us
All just a part of what I am
It's just a part of my beating heart
Beating for you
So I beg you please
Please wrap me up, please take me up
Please hold me close unto your breast
Run down the stairs
Out in open air
Away from the ladies, the Japanese tourists
Their guards won't notice cause I'm so hopeless
Take me wherever you really only came from
You will be famous, seen in the headlines

Though you just kindly stole my heart (seen in the headlines)
Because you kindly stole my heart (a world famous artist)

I'm a blue period Picasso stuck on a wall
In the middle of a hall in Barcelona
Trying to figure out how to get down
'Cause this solitude is bringing me down
All just a part of what I am
It's just a part of my beating heart
Beating for you
So I beg you please
Please wrap me up, please take me up
Please hold me close unto your breast
Run down the stairs
Out in open air
Away from the ladies, the Japanese tourists
Their guards won't notice cause I'm so hopeless
Take me wherever you really only came from
You will be famous, seen in the headlines

Though you just kindly stole my heart (seen in the headlines)
Because you kindly stole my heart (a world famous artist)
Though you just kindly stole my heart (seen in the headlines)
Because you kindly stole my heart (a world famous artist)

I beg you please stay with me, please (seen in the headlines)
Stay with me please, stay with me (a world famous artist)
Stay with me

Kim tiene 56!
Thurston tiene 51!
Lee tiene 53!
Steve tiene 43!

A las 5 décadas siguen tocando como adolescentes, lo cual comprueba mi hipótesis de que el indie mantiene joven alma y cuerpo.

Son una de las mejores bandas del mundo.
Podrían ser padres de muchos de nosotros, y lo son.

Sin Sonic Youth, no habrían surgido:
Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Killers, Artic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, etc...
Y todas las bandas indie/noise rock/postpunk, nunca hubieran existido.

TENNAGE RIOT es la mejor canción indie de todos los tiempos.
Un regalo!

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