Domi & JD Beck finally released their album. Listening to that today. Here's a cool one:

In this post, however, I intend to talk about this song:

Some of my friends might excommunicate me when they find out I like Tame Impala -- look, they have maybe 3 or 4 songs that I'm really fond of, and I don't listen to anything else they've made.

Anyway, when this song was suggested to me, at first I loved it, and listened a few times. I am pretty happy about being male, and I really appreciate media that defends or celebrates the nobility of distinctively masculine traits. And, for the record, I believe that women can and should, to the exact same degree, be proud of their femininity -- all God's creation is good. Let's all be happy about what we are.

Well, at a glance, this song seemed to be doing something like that -- "I'm a man; I answer to a higher force". After a couple of listens, I realized that the subtext here is that the narrator is cheating on his wife and has substance abuse problems (the music video appears to contain a wedding scene and some substance abuse; the song implies the rest) and is blaming his actions on his masculinity. The "higher force" is the collection of physical urges to which he has allowed himself to become enslaved. The lines "I'm as pathetic as the reason why" and "I'll never be as strong as you" make me think that the author recognizes the narrator's depravity, but there's no redeeming element in the song to indicate that the author disagrees with the narrator's rationale. It remains a plausible interpretation of the song that the author intends to present masculinity in a strictly negative light in contrast to an apparently more fragile presentation of femininity.

I'd love to walk through Romans 8 and explain how the song is actually spot-on with respect to atheistic materialism, and how Christianity ennobles masculinity, but I haven't the time.

In any case, the song is a major bummer, and I'm left wondering whether there are any actually good songs about being a man, other than those which seem to have been written by John Deere. 

And that's all I have time for today. I just wanted to get a blog out there. There's not much to update on anyway -- all the projects I mentioned in prior posts are still basically in progress.

"You don't have to rob me. It's not really worth it. I only have credit cards, and I can just cancel them."