

Camden

This music documentary reveals how some of the world's most iconic artists were shaped by this corner of London.
This music documentary reveals how some of the world's most iconic artists were shaped by this corner of London.
[Disney+] That the main guide of this documentary about the Camden scene is an artist who has lived in Camden but has never participated in the neighborhood's local scene says a lot about what the focus of the series is. The problem is not that Dua Lipa's life is not at all interesting to explain the cultural effervescence of the neighborhood, but that the story never explains what turned this area into a countercultural reference, that the relevance of punk in the eighties and the references to the darker aspects of nightlife are carefully avoided. In the end, we learn a lot of uninteresting things about Dua Lipa and few interesting things about Camden Town.
[Disney+] That the main guide of this documentary about the Camden scene is an artist who has lived in Camden but has never participated in the neighborhood's local scene says a lot about what the focus of the series is. The problem is not that Dua Lipa's life is not at all interesting to explain the cultural effervescence of the neighborhood, but that the story never explains what turned this area into a countercultural reference, that the relevance of punk in the eighties and the references to the darker aspects of nightlife are carefully avoided. In the end, we learn a lot of uninteresting things about Dua Lipa and few interesting things about Camden Town.