Contrast between the bitter miserablism of Jim O'Rourke's lyrics & the precise resplendency of his music needn't B experienced as dissonant.
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Happy music needn't express happy thoughts, sad music needn't be sad. To accept the lie that they must is to accept corporate logic.
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To bow to the consumerist attachment to labels or perceptions of mislabeling-- "But what? Huh? This thing's not the thing on the package!!!"
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Jim O'Rourke's work expresses that MUSIC can be beauty and order and joy-- but life is still shit and he won't say (sing) otherwise.
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All of which is a pretentious way of saying that I'm tickled by such radical disparities in music. And weirdly they can take me to extremes-
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@robertberens Reminds me of the song Happiness by Regurgitator. Very upbeat music; deliciously cynical lyrics, yet the whole works well.
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