from Chuck Klosterman's Pavement profile in GQ
There are no airs in Central California.
The famed band's lead singer denies that his music is a reflection of tension between his aristocratic youth and the disenfranchisement that gripped American culture in the '90s. Steven Malkmus grew up middle-class in Stockton, Calif., a place where folks don't "put on airs."
But it's possible that Malkmus said that none of his peers stand to inherit wealth, i.e. that there are no "heirs" where he's from. The meaning would be pretty much the same either way, even though acting pretentious and writing a will are two mutually exclusive concepts.
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