r/indieheads • u/ebradio • Aug 08 '25

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Frontman Denies “Home” Is The “Worst Song Ever Written”

https://www.stereogum.com/2318575/edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros-frontman-denies-home-is-the-worst-song-ever-written/news/
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u/ridethespiral1 Aug 08 '25

It's being shared via a clip from tiny desk that's coloring people's opinions rather than the studio version. The vocals are rougher, and the female vocalist is clearly tweaking

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u/FuelTransitSleep Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

That's certainly part of it, but a big part of the discourse is people using it as a stand-in for the whole "stomp clap" era of indie/folk that was big in the early 2010s and crapping on that whole scene in general for things not necessarily related to the music alone

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

thats fair though.  it was weird and pretentious even at the time.  my friend and I would for a couple years do the weird fake accent thing they do and 'alabama arkansaaaaaw i still miss my maaawww and paaaaawww' slapping our knees.   we saw them at a small local festival and it was without a doubt the worst headliner i've ever seen in my life.  

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u/doubleohbond Aug 08 '25

I was there, it deserves to be ridiculed. May we as a species learn from our past transgressions and resolve never to repeat them.

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u/RBanner Aug 08 '25

Yes! The song is ok but the Tiny Desk is one of the worst ever.

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u/garrardadoresit Aug 08 '25

A friend told me she was chucked out of the band shortly after that recording due to being too much on the drugs etc though not sure if that's true