Youth Lagoon

Yesterday after I shared 'Rotten Human' with Tim and Joel for some reason we ended up talking about how shitty people can be. All people. Even you and me. 

With all the shit going on in the world today, whether it be the Syrian refugees, Kim Davis, Violence, Greed, Theft, Donald Trump's hair, etc,. sometimes it's hard not to be pessimistic toward humanity. Joel summarized the shit with a good point: humantiy's biggest hurdle is fucking humanity. 

Maybe the first step in making the world a better place is for all of us to look in the mirror and judge our own actions. It's human nature to have selfish tendencies but only you control that degree to how selfish you actually are. OR how much of a dick you can be. OR how much more you can give to others, whether it be support monetarily, emotionally, or physically (HUGZ, bro. Everybody loves hugz). 

That's right. Sometimes we get all Jack Handy at SYFFAL with some deep thoughts and don't reference our genitalia. 

Anyhoo, 'Rotten Human' didn't necessarily provoke that conversation, but as I listened to it again this morning I thought it may have done-so subconsciously. In a recent interview, Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers commented about this song and his new album Savage Hills Ballroom (out 9/29): 

 "Throughout the process of writing this album--about two years--I've gone on this spiritual journey to learn more about myself and my faults and all this stuff that I've tended ignore for a really long time. It's so much easier to go through each day and forget the previous day or forget the hurtful things you said to someone or whatever it might be, just the shitty parts of your life. This song is addressing that. It's really examining what it is that makes me who I am, and what parts of that are disgusting."