Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1996
Maverick · Warner Music Group
Ironic
Maverick, under Warner. Most of it is not irony. It is the bill arriving late.
Maverick released it, inside Warner. The title is wrong and the feeling is common: you did the thing, and the thing undid you, and it feels personal. A house can grant the feeling without picking up the idea that the world is a joke aimed at you.
Laugh if you must. Then do the next right thing, which does not depend on the joke.
The eight
Industry
6/10
A list song people still finish. That is a craft.
Household
3/10
No house. A traffic jam, a flight, a death.
Piety
3/10
Fate, treated as a prank.
Courage
4/10
She says the unfortunate things out loud.
Republic
3/10
Private misfortunes.
Temperance
5/10
The complaints are not a spree.
Truth
4/10
She misnames the category. The situations are still sad.
Stewardship
4/10
A reminder that a life can turn. Not a philosophy.
Live historicallyIf the week feels aimed, name one thing that is simply yours to do anyway.