“Born Alone,” a vaguely Spoon-sounding track from Wilco’s new album The Whole Love, has a video. It’s a montage of band-related imagery (guitar racks, studio knobs, faces), and it’s nothing too exciting. But still! A good song! Mark Greenberg directs. Watch it below.
Also below, we’ve got something you’re definitely going to want to watch. Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy did a snarked-up solo acoustic cover of the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” at the Chicago venue the Hideout, as part of a book party for former Punk Planet editor and Rahm Emmanuel impostor Dan Sinker. Just going to put this out there: “I Gotta Feeling” is just an amazing song. It’s awesome. Whatever, fine, don’t agree. Fuck you too.
(via The Atlantic, where you can also read some stuff that Tweedy wrote about the song)
(via Time Out Chicago)
The Whole Love is out 9/27 on the band’s dBpm label. Join the comment party.
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The Black Eyed Peas are exempt from counter-culture. “I Gotta Feeling” will never be considered a good song.
i agree. stop covering their songs. it’s no “ironic” it’s trash.
hah i think its pretty hilarious…
Jeff Tweedy can do no wrong in my eyes.
If you guys would know the back story and stop being ignorant for a second….one of the running jokes of the fake Emmanuel twitter account was posting something relating to asking Jeff Tweedy to cover a Black Eyed Peas song at a rally.
Ignorance! Still doesn’t make it a good song.
wow i can’t believe he actually made that song entertaining..
Did anyone else read the Atlantic article? I found it extremely interesting, both as a look into Tweedy’s creative process in originally writing this song and then Wilco’s creative process in making this song what it is. This quote especially stuck out to me:
“I thought this lyric at the end—’born alone, born to die alone’—sounded like one of the most dire things that you can sing, but also defiant. I had strong feelings singing that lyric and wanted it illustrated in some defiant, triumphant way.”
Being lonely (and defiantly so) certainly isn’t anything new, but that doesn’t make it any less powerful and important of a concept.
Being lonely may be a concept to some, a reality to others.
I wasn’t trying to say that loneliness is only a concept and not a reality, just that it’s a common trope in songwriting that is still effective when executed well, like in this song.
C’mon, that was fun. I smiled the whole time.
Jeff’s dramatic reading of My Humps is the greatest video of the year.
Wilco and Black Eyed Peas in the same headline… What.
When was the last time Wilco rocked that hard! Man, that sounds good.
When they played live @ The State Theatre here in Sydney. That was a bloody fantastic night. Great review here: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/when-lessthan-perfect-means-great-20100502-u1jw.html