I think being literal is a plague in music right now. I don’t really want to hear songs that refer to concepts like “emotional labor” or “narcissism” by name. Step around the issue. Make me feel it from an angle that isn’t purely expository!
Yesterday I heard a song that went (with not as much exaggeration as you would think) "you can get into my car. It's a BMW 350 with a 3.0-liter inline six and optional leather trim and a manual transmission and it can drive on the road or the highway because I have a license to drive my car. you can get into the passenger seat which is where a passenger goes because I want you to get into my car. and we can go to Berlin or Hamburg or Osnabrück or Recklinghausen or Mülheim an der Ruhr in my car. my car is very fast. do you want to be in my car" and then I found out the singer is from New York, and if this was written by someone German it would be kind of understandable because that's just how Germans are, but it wasn't.















