As social media discussions go, many users of X/Twitter were recently chiming in on what they thought was the worst song ever. One user in particular threw out Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros’ 2009 hit “Home” with a clip of their Tiny Desk performance. The band’s singer Alex Ebert has come to the defense of The Magnetic Zeros’ biggest hit in an Instagram video. He went on to explain what he feels are the nuts and bolts of a good song.
“If the bones are good, if the bones let the song survive context, if you pull it out of acoustic guitar, you put a piano there and it works, it’s a good song,” said Ebert. “You pull it out of the piano, you put it on the harp, it’s still working, you take out of the harp, you sing it a capella, it’s still working, good song.” Ebert went on to claim “Home” pioneered the “stomp, clap,” folk era of the early 2010s and that acts such as The Lumineers and Monsters of Men sought out to duplicate their sounds. He even went as far as claiming he almost sued Monsters of Men for getting a sound “close to ‘Home.’”
Ebert goes on to recall the time his 90-year-old father asked him to play the song and give an impromptu performance in a restaurant. While it’s still to be determined if he’ll release a version of the recording, the singer has an affinity for the lo-fi style of the original. However, he may also have realized that he had created a monster with the trend.
“And by the way, ‘Home’ isn’t a good recording, it’s just a good song, said Ebert. “But it not being a good recording is what I love about “Home.” It’s like a moment. We recorded it on tape; we didn’t even know how to record on tape. It sounds like it’s made in some muffled garage. I wanted to spread the porous happenstance incidentalism of Edward Sharpe. Instead, what I spread was stomp claps taken and recorded better, and that’s depressing. But “Home” is apparently a good song.”
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