Future Tensor

This, though, is my favorite song of the past five years if I had to pick. It feels like the future. And it’s deep with allusion and infused with the hyper-reality of our age. It’s not beholden to anything but floats above it, relentless in both its embrace of the inevitable and the critique of it having to be. And it does it all with a buoyant insouciance that no other artist can match.

Boys of Summer

Great fucking cover. She has the perfect voice for this song. “Boys of Summer” has some of my favorite lines from any song, by the way. This stanza:

“Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said
‘Don’t look back, you can never look back'”

So much meaning and allusion in so little space. I’m no Don Henley fan, but he nailed it there.