Rap music and sincerity.
What Sincerity Looks Like...That’s what Chance the Rapper did on Monday on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
And since nothing improves music more than having it disassembled with a cold* chisel by America's Most Unctuous Conservative Public Intellectual...
He begins, not completely originally, by implying...Then he compares his own first-world problems with actual problems...The first part of the song is about...Then it changes mood with each verse.The chorus is...Sometimes that sounds like a hopeful...Sometimes it sounds like an angry...If you watch the video from the show, you see Chance just sitting on a stool...It’s interesting to compare Chance’s song with Taylor Swift’s new song...Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era.The crucial lyric is ...This is a song for a society without social trust...It’s interesting how corporate the video looks and the song sounds...
It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene...
I could have gone one million years without getting David "Mr. Music Explainer Guy" Brooks' Hot Take on the Sex Pistols.
The Acela's Corridor's resident Lester Bangs continues:
Johnny Cash was a rebel hippie of the First Water --The first thing you notice in comparing the Chance and Swift songs is the difference between a person and a brand.The second thing you notice is the difference between sincerity and authenticity.Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new.
-- who would have eaten Mr. David Brooks alive.
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