I think you should discover it on your own and (if you feel so compelled) think on the bitter pill she's giving you here. A prophet is never respected in the prophet's own town, nor is a prophet respected in trendy music 'zines.Įrykah Badu probably isn't a prophet, but she has a unique and idiosyncratic worldview worth listening to. Yeah, the jaded and the cool will fling their noses skyward no matter how flavorful your aesthetic vessel is, but screw 'em. Your dog won't take his medicine unless you wrap it in bacon, right? So artists can wrap those uncomfortable thoughts and observations in bacon. It's not fun to hunker down and think on this kind of stuff, though. Sometimes what we're shouting down is also what we're standing on. (I'm referring here to things beyond the usual pop-music tropes like "Baby, let's have sex," and "We're gonna party tonight," and "You broke my heart and now I'm drunk'n'sad," and "Let's stick it to the man with our guitars but never define who 'the man' is, exactly, because really, we work for him".) We live in a tangled mess of frayed wires and sometimes we are implicated in the things that, when we proclaim our senses of righteous indignation, we oppose with no dearth of rage. Lou Reed and The Strokes can have them.Īnd why NOT preach? There are things, often uncomfortable things, people might need to hear. You might sacrifice your hipness-cred or your cool, but you don't need those things. That is, you can have a message without sacrificing the quality of your art. But who needs credibility? When you make music, or art of any kind, you can find ways to get away with being preachy. Your credibility vanishes when your irony does, I guess.
There's an earnestness-threshold across which musicians transgress at their own peril.
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What series of embittering personal tragedies have to befall someone before that person is incapable of liking Erykah Badu? And, anyway, what's this "self-righteous" business? Isn't calling someone self-righteous just a way to shame that person for believing in things? This is why people can love the Smiths but hate U2. By "it" I mean this rather unfamiliar concept of not liking Erykah Badu. That's how someone once tried to explain it to me. "Because she's self-righteous and she sucks."
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