The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde has said that she and Johnny Marr have agreed that nobody seems to call anything "cool" anymore.
Taking to Instagram, the band's lead singer spoke about a lengthy conversation that she had with the former Smiths guitarist, which saw them come to this understanding.
“We were saying how nothing is ‘cool’ anymore,” Hynde wrote. “Has anyone else noticed that? It used to be… ‘That guy looks cool’. Now it’s ‘That guy’s hot.’ So whatever happened to cool?”.
Hynde added, “In case you don’t know what I mean (because you’ve grown up with social media) I include below a list of ‘cool’ versus ‘uncool’ to give you an idea".
In this post, Hynde defined being cool as “quiet and reserved” and “modest but mysterious” and being uncool was to be “loud and showy” or “boastful and oversharing”. To her, “sports cars in the ’60s” were cool and “any SUV” or “any car you might see parked outside the London Dorchester Hotel” was uncool.
Apparently, it was also agreed that things being considered cool are low music in restaurants, bands, discretion, good manners, reading a book on public transport, “attention to detail in one’s dress” and “watching any form of theatre or event sans phone”.
As for what they feel is uncool, Hynde mentioned “banging computer made sounds that you can’t talk over”, backing tracks, vulgarity, “talking loudly down the phone in a public place”, eating on public transport, “sloppy, dumpy attire” and “using a phone for any reason at a live event (especially a Pretenders concert”).
Signing off, Hynde went on to invite anyone “in favour of bringing back ‘cool’” to post their own ‘cool’ and ‘uncool’ list, “(unless you think lists are ‘uncool’ “.
Check out this post in full here.
Back in December, Chrissie Hynde also issued a partial apology to fans, after sharing a set of rules she has for returning concertgoers for her shows. Such rules included not taking up space in the front row, so "local" fans can have a chance to get to the front row. More on this here.
