Ian Mathers: Someone send Maynard a memo: see, you can make your political lyrics as clunky as you want, even a little self-righteous, if you just bother to write a fucking song to go with them.Īlex Clifton: Loud, angry, political, actually rockin’, and well-structured.
Unlike PJ, though, “fuck Donald Trump” is no metaphor and it does nicely. Pharrell WilliamsĪbout as hard to follow up Mitski as it is to write a protest song everyone likes…Īlfred Soto: In the terse muscularity of the guitars and their yowl, Dead Sara sound like Pearl Jam this time out. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.
