Album Review: Jeremy Messersmith Observes Late Stage Capitalism
Jeremy Messersmith began to play music as a child, and never stopped embracing it with a child-like grace. When you fall so young and hard in love with something, like music, she becomes a person to you. An entity you use to escape other entities that make you feel confined. Thus, with music, Messersmith sings and observes Last Stage Capitalism.
I know what you are thinking. Messersmith has given us a literal, economic album, but Capitalism is does not only affect your money; it impacts your morals and movements through your life. For instance, “Purple Hearts” is about a first date happening in modern society; where two individuals feel so lonely and eager to connect, but yet they do not. Modern society is FILLED with major bummers, and the continuous reminder that life does not have to stop sucking just because you want it to. Instead, most of us have to learn to be happy in knowing there are no breaks when it comes to bad times, but there better moments that splash in between like rivers entering oceans.
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Messersmith is known as a lyricist with the capacity to take the mundane and “suckiness” of life and transform it into hits. Tracks like “Monday You’re Not So Bad”, “All The Cool Girls”, “Once You Get To Know Us”, and “No Superheroes In Cleveland” share one important message that even I struggle to learn and accept: life is not exciting (lol!). Sometimes, we think life is supposed to be some EPIC ADVENTURE; with drama, dragons, and dastardly people riding in to impress us. Usually, it is much simpler like, going to work, possibly catching a happy hour, contemplating re-downloading your dating app, and swearing you are going to be more positive by buying a book about doing so. Yes, the average, capitalist life is truly average. In a world, where hyper-images has made every person believe every, other human being is hyping it up, except us, Messersmith reminds us of reality.
There is something magical about how un-magical life can be. From “Fireflower” to “Happy”, Messersmith uses melodies that wave like ambers in the wind, and presses his keys and drums forward like a kid pushing his toys towards you to share. Once again, combing the wonder of human nature in the fact that it exists, despite systems and structures that cut us off from feeling alive. Late Stage Capitalism might be the most human commentary on a political ideology, in that Messersmith sings to our social lives. With a voice that sounds naturally pensive and whimsy, he approaches music the same way music approaches him: with imagination. For More Information On Jeremy Messersmith And To Buy Late Stage Capitalism On March 9 Click Here.
