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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--of aesthetic/emotional response than more literal, emotionally direct, less "self-conscious" forms of pop can.
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@robertberens Also Semi-Charmed Life, by Third Eye Blind. A song used for years as a motivational track, the lyrics are about crystal meth.
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