Showing posts with label Babylon Berlin. Show all posts
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WHITE NOSTALGIA

A scene from the German show "Babylon Berlin"

One of the biggest hits of the summer in 2009 was an indie pop ditty about belle époque France. Entitled “1901,” this song, performed by the band Phoenix, is not about anything in particular. The one tell, if it can be called that, is contained in the lyrics: