Results for “embracing imperfection”

Songs

Animal Collective

A collage of surreal pastoral images and chanted refrains that circles around resistance to withdrawal—refusing to 'go…

entrapment vs. freedom embracing imperfection nature as omen

Elvis Costello

This is Elvis Costello's reading of the 1937 Rodgers and Hart standard, a love song built on backhanded compliments that somehow…

backhanded affection imperfection as intimacy permanence amid doubt

Arcade Fire

A parental address structured as a series of blessings — trust your heart, mind, body, soul — that builds toward an unqualified…

unconditional love parental guidance imperfection and acceptance

Björk

A largely a cappella meditation built on beatboxing and vocal layering, this track from Medulla circles a single riddle-like…

trust and devotion emotional equilibrium self-interrogation

Richard Thompson

A jaunty novelty jump-blues number in which a narrator affectionately but insistently mocks his partner's terrible dancing,…

comic frustration in love physical imperfection as running gag performance and public embarrassment

Mos Def

An intimate, unguarded address that opens as a direct confession about mortality and imperfection before widening into a…

mortality and urgency authenticity over performance Black solidarity and liberation

Deerhunter

A short, motorik-driven track that circles a single image of internal winter, using repetition rather than narrative development…

emotional paralysis escape and its failure depression/inner winter

Fleet Foxes

A sprawling, suite-like meditation on friendship, fracture, and reconciliation within Fleet Foxes, built around the real-life…

reconciliation after estrangement time and memory collective identity vs. individual selfhood

Elton John

A soft-focus portrait of a woman moving through the early-1970s Los Angeles music scene, seen through the eyes of an admirer who…

idealized femininity life on tour / music-industry culture memory versus presence