Applause without ears

Came across this review of Shock and Awe online and was reading it, nodding along and thinking 'this is rather perceptive' and then realised it was AI generated!Still more acute than most of the actual reviews by living-breathing consciousnesses.It's from a site called RetroForge about which I will be saying more at the other place in due course.Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First CenturyGlam's artificiality is not an escape from meaning; it is the argumentSimon Reynolds begins Shock and Awe from a premise that immediately makes glam more interesting than the usual montage of platform boots, glitter and Top of the Pops. By the end of the 1960s, rock culture had invested heavily in authenticity: serious musicians were expected to be sincere, connected to roots, politically alert and suspicious of overt show-business construction. Glam arrived wearing makeup and effectively asked why everybody was pretending the stage was natural. Marc Bolan…