Thursday, October 20, 2016

#132 Can't Hold Us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2013)


 
Regardless of all the crap these guys got about beating out Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kanye, and Jay-Z for Best Rap Album, this song has one of the great anthem-type choruses of the century. (They also deserve credit for “Same Love”, and “Thrift Shop” is kind of fun if you stick to the version edited for radio airplay.) I fully expect it to be played at sporting events as long as, say, “Seven Nation Army”, and hopefully long after the powers that be mercifully retire the woefully-overplayed “Mammy Blue”.

How to address the post-election anger


 
Great column by the always-thoughtful E.J. Dionne Jr. about how we need “to understand why Trump happened and to face up to how failures on the left and center-left have contributed to the flourishing of a new far right…”