Music

Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig 2-parter on Rick Rubin was really great. 

https://www.tetragrammaton.com/content/ezra-koenig

A favorite bit in pt. 2, when he reflected on ‘Ya Hey’ on the other side of a decade:

“At the time I thought it doesn’t make any sense, nobody could live that way… just ‘I am that I am’… it doesn’t make sense.

But now I look back on it and I think well, if it didn’t make sense, why did I care? 

There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense and you can let it go. You know what I mean? A lot of things don’t make sense but you can let it go. There was clearly something drawing me in about it.

A human being trying to have a conversation with the infinite and saying how can it be that with all this change and these things… that you’re just out there saying I am that I am? How can you live that way?

The person asking that question is… confused and angry and looking for something deeper. So when I think about that song now, I see it differently.”

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