I just don't understand their romanticisation of the working class? What do they gain from it? Eimear O'Reilly's sister also owns her own beauty salon -
https://aorbeauty.ie/, Eimear's family have money as the Moncrieffs have money. The carry on of them on that podcast is disgraceful, marvelling at how
gauche they are to be paying rent and struggling with the housing crisis like the average everyperson. The worries of the Moncrieffs and Eimear O'Reilly are not the worries of most of us. This strive to be ‘looking’ and ‘acting’ working class is almost like a novelty to them; something to be picked up and dropped by comparison to their own backgrounds. Which by implication means dressing like they have no money, drinking to oblivion, and generally treating the idea of being working class as simply an aesthetic?
At 54 minutes in
this episode, Eimear sneeringly describes the "
junkies", "shooting up" outside her apartment. I feel like this says it all, honestly.
Fontaines DC have been rightly called out for their fetishing of the working class, there's a great article that went semi-viral on it here:
https://garysolonely.neocities.org/is-it-too-real-for-ya.html
I know what you mean about the gentrification of the working class '
trend', but for all the harmlessness of softening an accent to ‘fit in’, as an example, the process of the middle-class fetishising people who would never experience the same opportunities into an
aesthetic just doesn't right with me. It reminds me of the verse from ‘Common People’ by Pulp:
“
You'll never do whatever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view.”
I don’t mean this to be pitying or bemoaning. Being working class isn't a handicap, but fetishising it, like these dopes do, only detracts from the reality of those who live it. Where you grew up and what you can afford is not an aesthetic or a choice, it’s a simple reality - diminishing that only fuels and reinforces more unsavoury attitudes.
duck them all, especially Eimear and her dehumanising language.