New video: Here We Go Again

[bondegezou]

A SWIFT RESPONSE

From the patriots at The Stephen Colbert Show and young Taylor herself. Perhaps even better than Jon's response.

https://youtu.be/Q8ZUbN5eHcQ

Nice. (If you're a Swifty, as I am.)

[luvyesmusic]

I believe some of you are jaded. The Village People moves ruined it for everyone else that followed.

[Gilly Goodness]

A SWIFT RESPONSE

From the patriots at The Stephen Colbert Show and young Taylor herself. Perhaps even better than Jon's response.

https://youtu.be/Q8ZUbN5eHcQ

[bondegezou]

Oh my - I have no issue with Anderson wanting to sing about issues or current events, if he wants. But it's not a strong piece of music. It's not as bad as Go Screw Yourself, but it's hard to believe this is the same person who created Close To the Edge and so many other pieces of music in the 70's. It's perplexing.

I thought "Screw", which he'd worked on for a few years whereas this seems to have been more quickly done, was better musically. It had more bite to it. "Here We Go Again" is OK. Perhaps nothing amazing musically, but Anderson has, for many years now, been doing music in a wide variety of contexts, with different collaborators, for different release modalities. He's not trying to replicate "Close to the Edge" each time: he's putting music out for different reasons, and here speed and a visceral reaction to events was more important.

I think we should judge his attempts to do something "CttE"-like -- e.g. the "Opus" series -- against "CttE". We should judge "Here We Go Again" against something like "Money".

[Gilly Goodness]

Is that a little quote from "That, That Is" at 0:15-0:18 and elsewhere?

Could be. Lyrics aren't up on Google yet but sounded like it.

"That life is just a worrying..." TTI


yeah, short repetitive song but extend it with a slow bit or key change and it could be a punchy, catchy Police-like toon. Has promise.

[True]

Oh my - I have no issue with Anderson wanting to sing about issues or current events, if he wants. But it's not a strong piece of music. It's not as bad as Go Screw Yourself, but it's hard to believe this is the same person who created Close To the Edge and so many other pieces of music in the 70's. It's perplexing.

[Davy]

The song is decent, and the video is great.

[Nelson]

Surprised he didn’t put this on his Patreon…lol

[PhaseDance]

Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Putin showed up in SoCal…

Is there a good plastic surgeon out there he can use to hide his identity?

[Imperatrix]

Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Putin showed up in SoCal…

[Yorkshire Square]

Yeah, it's good. A catchy song with a message. Well done Jon.

[Gilly Goodness]

Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals disappear

Harold Land with a wave of his hand

stand and fight we do consider

peaceful lives will not deliver freedom

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this is a song/video rushed out in mocking white hot anger. Deliberately. Does not claim to be the definitive nuanced summation of the whys and wherefores. Time for that. Mockery is a powerful weapon against dictators as the Marx Brothers showed. Putin and his cronies are dangerous but also buffoonish as displayed here.

The level of anger expressed by my family, friends and casual conversations in the street, at the checkout feels wholly different this time. Where does Europe and the world go from here?

[Ceasar’s Palace]

The best things I can say about it: I agree with the sentiment. It’s nice to have a Jon lyric without his usual catch phrases. And I like the guitar solo.
That’s it.

[bondegezou]

Strange to see Jon turning into a political protest song singer after Screw Yourself.

Turning into...? He's always been a political protest song singer.

[pianozach]

The song is not bad at all. The video looks very rushed / amateurish / cringey ... Strange to see Jon turning into a political protest song singer after Screw Yourself. A whole album might be building up here...And finally I'm EXTREMELY shocked to see there are so many Trump supporters among his fans on Facebook, complaining that Trump is present as Putin's buddy or little doggy in the video. He did say the attack was a genius move didn't he ? Some US people seem to discover that Jon could have an anti-war stance !

I'l respectfully disagree about the "video looks very rushed / amateurish / cringey": I think that reducing the Russian troops and Putin to characterish stereotypes is quite appropriate, and gives the video the added sarcasm the song needs for maximum effectiveness.