Like a Rolling Stone

Columbia, under Sony. Pride meets the street. The song enjoys it, and it is not wrong about the fall.

Columbia, inside Sony. The record watches a person who had no duties discover that the world does not owe her a soft landing. The delight in her fall is the defect. The fact of the fall is the lesson.

A house can use it against pretension, including its own. Do not use it to practice contempt.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Six minutes of exact lines. That is a trade.
Household
4/10
No home. The point is that she no longer has one.
Piety
4/10
No reverence. A judgment, which is not the same thing.
Courage
8/10
He says the cruel true thing and does not flinch.
Republic
5/10
A person who lived on other people's money finds out what a neighbor is.
Temperance
6/10
The party is over. That is the temperance, delivered as a slap.
Truth
9/10
The disguise comes off. Nobody in the song gets to keep the act.
Stewardship
7/10
Still taught, still worth teaching, with a hand on the meanness.

Live historicallyPlay it when the house is tempted to admire a life with no work in it. Then turn it off before the sneer becomes the habit.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1980

RCA · Sony Music Entertainment

9 to 5

RCA, under Sony. A joke with a true bill inside it.

RCA released it. Sony owns RCA. The cup of ambition is a joke until you have had the job. Then it is a description of a day that begins before you are awake and ends with someone else taking the credit.

Laugh, and then notice who in the house, or the shop, is the one the song is about.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The typewriter percussion is a job, done with wit.
Household
5/10
A worker who wants a life after the shift. The house is what the job is eating.
Piety
3/10
No reverence for the office. The person is the point.
Courage
7/10
She says the skim out loud, in a cheerful key.
Republic
8/10
A wage, a boss, a cup of ambition. That is a civic song.
Temperance
6/10
The anger is aimed, not sprayed.
Truth
8/10
The credit-taking is described exactly.
Stewardship
7/10
A song for the person who makes the place run and is not named.

Live historicallyThank the person who did the uncredited work this week. Do it in front of the others.