Newest feud in music

The Flaming Lips are opening up a can of worms on their next album, At War With The Mystics. Not content to do battle with pink robots, they’ve set their sights on pop music:

“There’s a line in that song that goes, ‘So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen,’ and I guess part of what I’m railing against on that song is this preternaturally happy music sung by kids and written by 40-year-old Swedish men. And in between them there’s this void. I guess the worst offender is like the Black Eyed Peas or Destiny’s Child, where they’re going, ‘I’m a survivor, I’m gonna make it,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, you’re 20, what are you going to survive? Getting a bikini wax this weekend?’”

I suppose it isn’t officially a feud until Britney retaliates which I don’t see as too likely but we can all hope. It certainly has the potential to be a more interesting spat than most rap tussles, with white trash on one side and guys dressed up in animal suits on the other. Chartwhores to the left of me, indie jerks to the right of me, with the fate of the music world in the balance.