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"Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
After years of hating it, I've basically boiled my criticism down to the fact that it's
I'm pretty sure I've written that exact string of words dozens of times over the years whenever this topic comes up. But I'll expand on it a bit.
It drags on for a little over 5 minutes, it's too damn long for having no real substance
Half of the lyrics are just cutesy-sounding words with no real significance
There's a weird spoken word bit in the middle telling a story that just kind of doesn't go anywhere basically just "remember that time you fell out a window and I drove you to the hospital? That's when I fell in love with you"
Why? Are you attracted to women who are bleeding all over your car? Do you get turned on by gravity? Did she say something funny? Did she at least look cute? There's just no fucking payoff.
There's not really even anything particularly interesting musically interesting going on there.
And what's with the fake southern drawl? You're from L.A. my dude. That's Los Angeles, not Louisiana. And by the way "Edward Sharpe," you forgot to even use that bullshit "alter-ego" name in this song, you're not even keeping your own made-up lore straight, just drop the fucking act.
I'm pretty sure if I asked the crappiest LLM out there to write a "bullshit folksy love song for basic white teenage girls" it would spit out something better.
And for some reason the radio stations around me played this song to absolute death, not to mention my sister practically listening to it on repeat. It's burned into my head and I absolutely fucking hate it.