'I don't want to be well-adjusted in a world that's crazy.' ezrafurman
Protest music in the Trump era has ranged from self-congratulatory gimmicks to moving, heartfelt creations. Regardless, nearly all efforts have felt deeply inert — deluded about the scale of the threats we face, unabashedly cynical, or plainly sanctioned by the powers that be.intensely gratifying.
There's something purposely ham-fisted about my writing on this record. Like, the line:"I wanna be your girlfriend." It's not a nuanced comment about gender. It's not a sharp analysis. It's just a naked statement of what I feel. There's a lot to take issue with, in these blunt statements, like me saying I want to be a heterosexual monogamous cliché. There's a lot of footnotes you could give to it. But it feels necessary to just say the simple, blunt thing.
If I made the most intuitive thing I could, it would be like a Buzzcocks-type punk tune. It's almost weird that I never made a record that sounded like punk before. I guess the reason is that I worried it would be like karaoke. You know, making something that already existed.What finally fell into place for you?
Once you'd committed to this album, was it exciting to play around with the genre, and draw on the history of punk?. That was an opportunity to explore a lot of things. At the end of the book, the question I found myself asking was,"What is a punk? Is Lou Reed a punk?" In the final scene in the book, it was when I saw him live at SXSW and all these artists did covers of his songs. [Reed] ended the performance triumphantly saying,"I love punk rock. And I was the first one.
Spiritual Judaism itself becomes resistance, when there's such rigid expectations for how you're supposed to live your life and say, spend your Saturday. I think people feel really helpless. Artists and fans. When you see a band do something you wish they didn't, it does feel empty or useless to criticize them for trying to survive, or because everyone does it.
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