Your whole life, if judged by your musical and literary preferences can be interpreted as a celebration of the derivative. Then what are you? What does one call a derivative of a derivative? Here, let’s mock the character list of admired mediocrity.
Muse? The bastard, near-aborted child of U2 and Rush, complete with overstated odes [...]
You can’t tell people what they want to hear, if you also want to tell the truth