Most pretentious band and least pretentious in the world

[beka51073]

Sting is pretentious, but thats a very stupid reason. For one, don't diss lutes, lutes are awesome.

[Chase H]

Sorry, my bad.

I agree with what you were saying, too - you can't know for sure of any musician's pretentiousness from the music alone, but only from what they might say in interviews etc.

[lov.ely]

30 miles west and 30 odd years ago, everybody's favourite... John Lennon, came out with a corker.
No mention of that yet either.

[Alide]

Pretentious? Moi?

[jonard c]

Adele parle beaucoup de vieux d

[Kristen D]

There's too much chin-stroking to choose any one artist but I'd nominate Elvis Costello, because right-track beat me to Byrne

[ghafoors2005]

Somebody above used a dictionary entry for the word "pretense" - that's very misleading. Just because "pretentious" is a derivative of "pretense" doesn't mean you can gauge its most regular meaning from the latter.

The most frequent and commonly intended meaning of "pretentious" is the meaning of assuming an air of dignity and self-importance. This is also incidentally what is generally meant in the music press (and all art press) when some artist is deemed pretentious.

In that case, you can only really say that an artist is pretentious if they make that clear through what they say or how they behave.

[The Ignorant Masses]

Well, I think when critics talk about artists being pretentious, it has more to do with their music than them personally.

Ironically enough, the only thing critics EVER want to talk about is the artists personally, rather than their actual f*cking music.

I've always hated that.

[janew]

It's delusion, if it's far from being the truth. And it is!!!

[uhhhhhhIDK]

Oui, Monsieur.

J'aime parler francais.