You’re still getting all your acoustic guiar, piano, group vocals and string tinged cute-folk, but the delivery is way less predictable than “Let Her Go”, where you could predict where the fingerpicking becomes strums and where the soaring violins appear on the first time. Ready?Ĭute and Fuzzy Folk Song: “Let Her Go”, with its syrupy strings and overly twee xylophone melody, is presenting itself as a sweet and charming little ballad to cozy up to. Let’s be constructive for a bit: instead of me prattling on about how boringly bad “Let Her Go” is, why don’t I look at a few songs that do the things that “Let Her Go” tries to do, but better? That way, we’re still here talking about music, but hopefully happy about it, eh? And, just to avoid claims of being “too obscure”, I’ll only pull from music videos with over a million hits on YouTube. “Let Her Go” is so pathe–actually, wait a second. I’ve covered more than a few bad/offensive/horrible songs on Radio Rants before, but never one this pathetic before. I tried looking for an interesting story behind “Let Her Go”, like an innovative video or a breakout live performance, but the song apparently picked up steam through sheer force of will. On top of that, few of the acts try to sound all that different, meaning that for me, the songs blend into one mopey package before too long.Įnter “Let Her Go”, by (of course) bearded British singer-songwriter Passenger (Michael David Rosenberg), a slice of 2012 indie folk that’s shrugged and whimpered its way into the current top 20. ![]() The music’s rarely engaging, and any emotional punch to the lyrics tends to get undercut by mumbling deliveries or cloying performances. I like indie folk fine enough, but “beardy dude” is just too boring. This is the niche genre responsible for “Fall/Winter” playlist filler tracks the world over.Īnd it’s never gotten much of a reaction out of me. Since Bon Iver and similar acts like Iron and Wine’s breakthough, acts focusing on sad bastard poetry lyrics, acoustic guitars, and deliberately uncharismatic “aw shucks” earnest performers have flooded the market. ![]() The “sensitive, quiet, beardy dude singer-songwriter” subgenre solidified around the emergence of Bon Iver, who’s “Skinny Love” is basically it’s answer “Stairway to Heaven”. The genre’s a recent development, made up of groups that combine the storytelling lyrics and acoustic instrumentation of folk with indie rock showmanship and wider instrumentation (fiddles, piano, etc). Did everyone bring their dream journals today?īefore we jump into Passenger and his–based on the cover art up there, I’m assuming–yearning meditation on what it means to “let her go”, let’s talk about indie folk for a moment, because that might actually be interesting.
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