In the 1997 romp Spice World, a producer commends the Spice Girls on their run-through of a song by saying, “That was absolutely perfect—without being actually any good.” There, it was an ironic dig about how little the girl-power-peddling Brit quintet cared about the no-fun opinions of supposed experts. But when the line popped into my mind this weekend while I was listening to Post Malone’s long-anticipated country crossover album F-1 Trillion, it was less as punchline than as straight description.
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