Hopper on Jane’s

In last weeks Chicago Reader, Jessica Hopper mounted a brilliant take-down of the walking capitalist corpse that is Jane’s Addiction. She writes:

“They’ve lingered for 15 years, creating the appearance that we must for some reason want them not to disappear—as though they’ve done anything to renew their cultural capital since “Been Caught Stealing.” But in fact they’ve been reintroduced again and again not to satiate a public clamoring for their presence but rather at the whim of multinational institutions: major labels, megalithic festivals, VH1.”

And, she’s right. And there is something so depressing about it all. I’m so tired of watching the best ideas of my subculture borrowed, made petty, then sold back to us.