many things
i’ve had ideas for this email for weeks: here are the brief snippets.
“i left spotify and i felt extreme joy, and then extreme rage, and then there i was, listening to music for fun for the first time since 2020” spotify has not only been ruining musicians labor value and music and taste and funding AI military war making, but also it has concertedly stripped us of actual music, and i mean actual sound waves, hitting your ears, and then your brain, and then your heart. i moved off spotify and i listened to music on apple music and i sobbed because i heard things i hadn’t been able to hear for years, music in the mix, god there was music in the mix, not just sounds. frequencies that make music music, that communicate the spirit, are lost in the cheap, cutting of quality that comes with spotify. like everything else. i sobbed, i cried so hard, listening to a playlist i made in 2020 able to hear all of it, all of the music, something i didn’t even know was missing, until i got it back.
“everyone’s asking me what i think about the geese record and i can’t stop screaming because i, lover of strange rock music, can’t stop thinking about how i dislike it, even though i don’t want to.” okay i didn’t like it. i didn’t like it for reasons obvious: obviously, they had access to a career given their being signed to a major labor at 18 ness and thus opportunities to develop and grow and focus on music - something a girl like me would hurt myself and others for. its like that fiona apple song - i dislike geese because: “I resent you for being raised right / I resent you for being tall / I resent you for never getting any opposition at all / I resent you for having each other / I resent you for being so sure / I resent you presenting your life
Like a fucking propaganda brochure.” in addition to this^^^ critique, it’s no secret i’m jealous. it’s obvious. on merits, i dislike it because if they’re saving rock n roll as everyone claims, and cameron winter is this amazing genius, with vocal charms and skills beyond human understanding, maybe he should’ve developed his voice a bit more with this record? upon listening, i expected more vocal risks, skill, range, heart, ugliness, and beauty than 3D country record, which i loved, btw. and he let me down! one weird vocalist to another… never let them guess your next move. on more merits - they’re just swans but postmodern (swans, is modernist, clearly james joyce and virginia wolff to music, geese, on the other hand, more like the guy who wrote infinite jest whos name i forgot???) - it’s not that special, novel, etc. they’re just like that led zeppelin rip off band, but with impeccable taste, and new yorker ness. and yes, is it obvious i’m jealous and perhaps, more accurately, as a 1st gen american constantly behind on what’s culturally interesting, cool, tasteful, smart, ingenius even? is it obvious i’m jealous? i’m only human. i probably should’ve kept this to myself…
“i always listen to greg mendez as the leaves start to change: and other songs for october”
“my best friends all left me for beautiful and amazing career opportunities and i’m so proud yet so devastatingly sad because the good 23 is all gone”
we’re playing WASHINGTON DC on friday. at the pie shop.
on december 12th we play union pool, brooklyn
on january 31st we play elsewhere, brooklyn. all new music. tell me if you hate it and i have no business being jealous bc i just don’t have what it takes to make it in music business anyway. please. i’m only human.
those are secrets now, but they won’t be soon.
