SM: I write with a filter of trying to avoid the completely obvious. Trying to avoid Lenny Kravitz-style rhymes. I guess I'll stray toward the more obtuse or weird image rather than a straight rhyme. If I can't come up with anything, I'm going to go toward the weirder. But that being said, it's all pretty organic in that I don't have to think about it too much. It just sort of happens. It's who I am. That's what I do. Like Morrissey or something. Morrissey does that. He's the way he is. He's not thinking, "I have to be like Morrissey," you know? He is Morrissey. [Laughs.] And that's how lyrics are for me. Whereas maybe David Bowie, or something, he's a trend-sniffing magpie, and that's his art, his talent.
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Obtuse - a. of blunt form, not sharp-pointed; stupid, slow of perception
I'm guessing he meant 'oblique' - not going straight to the point, roundabout, indirect.
I quite like what I've heard of Pavement. I think he's right about Morrissey, too. It's always nice to note that musos are not as clever as they think they are, though. I suppose I'm being a bit petty and mean. Oh well.
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