Reply To: Regarding Artificial Heart and JoCo on Ken Plume
Interesting topic to be sure. I’m fairly convinced that artists tend to see their creations through different lenses than the audience. I’ve also noticed that I personally feel differently about a bunch songs that my peers/public/media etc.. tend to extoll as “hits” and “favorites.” Just because a song is popular or a favorite of the masses, doesn’t mean that I’m going to like it or that it’s even that great a song. One of the things I love about Jonathan’s songwriting is the broad range of styles- melodic, harmonic, lyric, rhythmic, and instrumental. I’ve always felt that his impetus/raison d’etre differed from Thing a Week (during?) and Artificial Heart. My favorite JoCo songs change almost on a weekly basis due to mood/environment etc… but I’ve found that Madeleine is always somewhere in the top of the rotation and I’m entranced by the word-smithship of Sitcking It to Myself.