DEVO

[King Bob]

There were some interesting parts, and some of it was funny, but I was sort of disappointed in this because it kind of made them unlikeable, well Gerald Casale mostly. I felt like they were the classic smart misfits who decided that everyone else was stupid because they weren't like them. Casale developed that into a worldview with the concept of devolution, when I think it's more probable that a lot of people - maybe most - aren't that smart and it's probably always been that way, rather than people are getting stupider. (Although....) Anyway, Casale comes of as sort of an arrogant asshole that thinks he's really smart, and takes the whole thing really seriously, like they were making profound statements with the songs. I felt like Mark Mothersbaugh was more into the art angle of it than believing it, and enjoyed writing quirky music.