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The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.
Some of them recognized it: The Moodies responded with "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band"; Some didn't: My personal favorite example of late-'60s pretension will always be Blood Sweat and Tears' "Symphony for the Devil/Sympathy for the Devil."
Anything too processed might smack of oppression or repression, pretension or hypocrisy, maybe acknowledged alliance with reactionary values, the Margaret Thatcher effect.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, pretension was introduced into mainstream pop not by the Beatles but by the Rolling Stones.
Photomontage thumbs its nose at the pretension of the artist playing God, the blank canvas his world.