That IS depressing...kind of like when the Dead stopped playing “Jack Straw” because it depicted an unhealthy co-dependent relationship between trainhopping drifters...or when Robert Johnson stopped playing “Me and the Devil Blues” because of its depiction of spousal abuse or...oh wait, artists didn’t do that until approximately 5 minute…
That IS depressing...kind of like when the Dead stopped playing “Jack Straw” because it depicted an unhealthy co-dependent relationship between trainhopping drifters...or when Robert Johnson stopped playing “Me and the Devil Blues” because of its depiction of spousal abuse or...oh wait, artists didn’t do that until approximately 5 minutes ago. Darnielle is disappointingly woke to the extreme. We don’t need to hear your take on any social or political issue, dude. You are not Bono. You wrote good story-songs. We hoped for some refuge from the deluge of social justice jihadism and you just wouldn’t give it to us. Thanks for nothing.
It’s especially weird since it’s not like Going to Georgia is his only song that shouldn’t be emulated in real life. To my knowledge he still plays “No Children,” about codependent spouses drinking themselves to death. But I think that the impact that the Sunset Tree album (which I love) had on people, with folks always telling him that “This Year” saved their lives, gave him a self-image as a healer of broken souls, and that entailed disavowing some of his earlier stuff.
That IS depressing...kind of like when the Dead stopped playing “Jack Straw” because it depicted an unhealthy co-dependent relationship between trainhopping drifters...or when Robert Johnson stopped playing “Me and the Devil Blues” because of its depiction of spousal abuse or...oh wait, artists didn’t do that until approximately 5 minutes ago. Darnielle is disappointingly woke to the extreme. We don’t need to hear your take on any social or political issue, dude. You are not Bono. You wrote good story-songs. We hoped for some refuge from the deluge of social justice jihadism and you just wouldn’t give it to us. Thanks for nothing.
It’s especially weird since it’s not like Going to Georgia is his only song that shouldn’t be emulated in real life. To my knowledge he still plays “No Children,” about codependent spouses drinking themselves to death. But I think that the impact that the Sunset Tree album (which I love) had on people, with folks always telling him that “This Year” saved their lives, gave him a self-image as a healer of broken souls, and that entailed disavowing some of his earlier stuff.