"tryin' to find some good in you"
Sometimes it is the way you frame a song in your mind that gives it a personal characteristic that shapes your opinion of it. On the surface the pleasant white picket fence of Swedish singer songwriter Jens Larsson's "The Devil" feels derivative of ultra pleasant late 60's or early 70's folk pop. The pure melodies, simple production and sometimes syrupy lyrics , "and love to turns to tears and joy turns to sadness" or "some days I walk alone by the ocean trying to find the end of the road" is so sweet as to feel like, hmmm, maybe a religious song. A song sung in Church.
And maybe it should be a Church song, I mean it does reference the Devil and of it turning into number one as if there is a possession. It is figurative but as I listen to it I frame it as actual. As the actual Devil entering your body. My choice to makes the song a literal evil manifestation. Sometimes songs that sound so pure that I think of them as a soundscape for a Lynch or Cronenberg or Ari Aster film. I always like the counter position of white picket fenced sweetness not being so sweet after all.
What's wrong with me? Enjoy it either way.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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