Blog: EAR FARM

The following is part two in a two part article. Part one was published last week and can be accessed HERE . There have always been frivolous and stupid songs, but the issue here is different. When it is unimportant to have lyrical continuity that spans more than thirty seconds of a given song, what results are songs about nothing, stuffed with non-sequiturs and nonsense phrases played off as slang. This tendency has been ably mocked before in its worst offenders—consider Alanis Morissette's cover of "My Humps" or this spoken-word [...]