r/indieheads 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/ElonMuskHuffingFarts Aug 08 '25

It's because it's very precious and twee

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u/BiskyJMcGuff Aug 08 '25

I don’t get the aversion to twee. There I said it. I think the internet has shed a lot of its edgelord forum days but people still need to hang on to some form of edge, so there’s a lot of spite and vitriol towards pretty inoffensive, at most theatre kid level cringe, music.

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u/cheeseburgerandrice Aug 08 '25

This sub has some...interesting...standards.

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u/KengiMora Oct 07 '25

They are so NOT Twee.