The third single from Brooklyn-based indie-pop group Yeasayer’s sophomore album Odd Blood is a song about failing the one you love the most, sung from the point of view of the failure (the failure, presumably, being a professional musician who’s always away from home and who may crave the adoration of a crowd more than the peace and quiet of domestic life). The self-loathing inherent in the song (heightened by recurring, wordless […]
This week, The Gap renounced its plans for rolling out a new logo, mainly due to a massive social media uprising in opposition to the change. And I thought, really? There are that many people that personally invested in a clothing manufacturer’s corporate identity that they would so passionately oppose a logo change? Corporate identities change all the time. Who cares, right? But I turned it around on myself. […]
Today I heard David Bowie’s 1999 single “Thursday’s Child” and it made me sad. Which isn’t an unusual reaction. The song’s been making me sad ever since it was released. It is, without question, the saddest David Bowie song ever. Even though the lyrics seem to take an uplifting turn, Bowie sings them in a flattened, weary moan over a slow, steady wash of keyboards that suffocates the optimism of the chorus – throw me […]