“I Don’t Know What I Stand For Anymore”: Fun., Postmodern Angst, and Civil War Memory

The band Fun, their song ‘Some Nights’, and “the postmodern subculture of hipsterdom”…

The Lakefront Historian

The casual radio listener cannot avoid the chart topping hit “Some Nights” by the band Fun.  As with their other recent hit, “We Are Young,” Fun. produces upbeat tempos and soaring harmonies that belie darker lyrics about the emptiness and purposelessness of life.  By applying the postmodern undertones of “Some Nights” to a music video dominated by Civil War imagery, Fun. meaningfully reflects and contributes to popular memory of the Civil War.

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