Balalala…
Prefer the original but this remix was used on Stranger Things and thought it was perfect for it.
At BST today. Not my usual type of festival, cant really mosh with this crowd 
Adele and Gabrielle to come but just saw Mahalia, whose music i really enjoy. She was good live.
Not sure that’s the right comparison. More like Thunder Road or another Springsteen song with a story and no chorus. It’s the first song in years that’s made me cry though.
(Should maybe have posted this in the masculinity thread)
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Never heard of Sam Fender so gave it a listen and if that’s the closest thing this generation has to an anthem, then I feel sorry for them.
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Not at all my usual cup of tea, although i do like a few of her songs, but credit where its due: Adele is very good live
finally got round to watching the Glastonbury highlights…
thought St Vincent put on a good show with ‘Down’
couldnt find a link, so found the video instead…
Well worth five minutes of anybody’s time…
“Everybody talking to their pockets… Everybody wants a box of chocolates”
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It’s how I feel about most of their music. It’s just bland and boring to me. I thought I was supposed to be offended and enraged by young people’s music, but no…just bored…
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They watched Boudica fall to the Romans
They watched Lennon as they shot him dead
They watched Jackie pick up Kennedy’s head
They watched kids go to Epstein’s bed
They watched Hollywood whitewash remake movies
Of napalm falling like water on rock
They watched the atom bomb reduce two cities to dust
And paint the whole narrative as totally just
They fly drones above our heads
That paint the ground black and red
Children’s eyes clasped in dread
They all knew where it led
Trade ties steeped in guile
They knew the fall was coming all the while
And they double down on misery
The age-old blatant mystery
Subterfuge in synergy
Poor hate the poor
Hate the poor
Hate the poor
Hate the poor
Poor hate the poor
Hate the poor
Hate the poor
Hate the poor
It’s a blame game
It’s a fame trap
It’s the martyrdom of the spoken
It’s the last breath of the awoken
And the woke kids are just dickheads
And the dickheads are all ages
And everybody’s pointing at somebody’s sweetheart
I’m a scumbag
Making my peace with the internal drag
Making my thesis on the faceless man
He’s got the whole world in his fucking hands
I don’t have time for the very few
They never had time for me and you
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More offensive and enraged than McCartney, PSB’s and the other older acts
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Those lyrics are cool. I was talking more about the music and in general. Mostly very pop-oriented and notexactly new sounding in this generation. Maybe that’s a wrong impression?
I do agree with you. His lyrics stand out because most tunes on the radio are whiny break-up songs. Though I’m a U2 fan which I’m sure plenty of people would critique!
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New genres are often linked to technology whether that is amplification, electric and electronic instruments or recording techniques.
The last big technical innovation was laptop recording/composition as it makes it much cheaper to compose and record in the bedroom rather than relying on expensive studio sessions. Unfortunately, that also means things like Autotune and everything sounding samey.
There actually are innovations out there but with all media becoming fragmented rather than having a few all-purpose broadcasters we just don’t get to hear it so much. Plus we are all getting older and they just don’t make proper tunes like when we were young like Motörhead or something.
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But atypical of the current crop? I admit to knowing very little about him, and listened because of the lyrics you posted. I like some of what I listened to.
There is no more punk, life is too inoffensive now, but this is music that challenges and is a million miles away from Ed Sheeran, Hozier et al.
I know its with a bit of reds bias, but Jamie Webster is among those sticking it to the Tories etc…
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That’s the thing I find irritating though. You’d think with the gatekeepers mostly gone and everyone having the opportunity to not only produce but also publish music to a potential worldwide audiencw, there’d be an explosion of creative new stuff. But instead it’s mostly fairly safe and samey stuff. Not everything though obviously.
See, I kinda want them to NOT sound like the stuff that was new when I was young…
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Yes, I’d agree with all of this, though Hozier has a bit more about him than most. Ed Sheehan is the master of bland
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This article pretty much sums it up. “He asks little of listeners too tired to give anything anyway”
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Sam Fender reminded me of Ed Sheeran, although I admit his lyrics are obviously more interesting.