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Native Nod - Tangled
Chris and Danny Leo, people.
I kinda think this maybe sounds like how I feel when I’m listening to EMA; and the lyrics read a little bit like how I think when I’m trying to figure out EMA - but for everyone who thinks EMA is super-confessional and honest; well this is what ‘emo’ actually was, before everything else. this probably wouldn’t survive a day if it was released now (unless it was obscured by screaming or tweed up as folk), which is ironic given that this dates from the decade of DFW’s need for a ‘New Sincerity’ - though obviously this was as niche then as now, or perhaps even more - which tbh I think has been hijacked for so much uncritical naivety. we’re so fucked up from capitalism, consumerism, internetism, and probably climate change (remember when environmentalism used to be so much simpler? no, I guess not) that we don’t need to hide from it, we need to embrace it and follow a new new sincerity, an ironised truthfulness, a fucking artistic way of life where everything is exactly as beautiful as it seems.
plus, you can’t have sincerity without solidarity and real sympathy, and maybe that’s what we lack.
‘today puberty, tomorrow the world’
