If the song “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros does not sound familiar to you, it probably does.
particularly if you enjoyed music in the year 2010.
A powerful stomp, clap folk pop wave was sweeping across the music industry, and Home reached No. 25 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay list.
The song doesn’t include anything really objectionable. It has a catchy quality.
Or perhaps there is. And perhaps it isn’t.The song is available for listening here.
We now know why the song and the band are making news this week. It appears that a clip from their NPR Tiny Desk concert was shared on X, which led to some people discovering them again. To be fair, their performance of the song there wasn’t really good.
While posting it, someone wrote, “Worst song ever made.”
There were 92 million views on the post.
One individual said, “I hated this song when it came out and I hate it more now.” An anthem for millennial hipsters from the flaming depths of hell.
Nonetheless, some people stood up for the song.
One guy said, You simply had to be there. This song is amazing. It’s straightforward romanticism and enjoyable songwriting. You all despise everything and question why this age lacks happiness and love.
Alex Ebert, the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, addressed the situation on Instagram on August 7 in a video titled “Is Home a Good Song?” after it had gotten out of hand.
Okay, so this is how you can tell if a song is good, he said. if the bones are healthy. The song will win if the bones allow it to. Oh, and it works if you take it out of an acoustic guitar and place a piano there? Yes, the music is good. It’s a good song if it works. It remains functional even if you remove it from the piano and place it on a harp. It still functions when you take it out of the harp and sing it out. Nice tune.
He went on to say, “Home has been covered a lot of different things, and some of them are hits, like real hit songs.” You know the one that went viral, where a guy takes a baritone and puts it in falsetto?
“Home isn’t a good recording,” Ebert added.
He added, “It’s just a good song.” What I adore about Home, though, is that it’s not a great recording. It’s similar to a moment. We made a tape recording. We were not even familiar with recording on tape. It sounds as though it was produced in a garage using muffles. I wished to disseminate Edward Sharpe’s flimsy, accidental, and permeable writing. Instead, I disseminated stomp claps that were better captured on camera.
However, aside from that, it seems like “Home” is a good song.
Additionally, Ebert asserted that his band was the pioneers of the stomp, clap (expletive) folk pop genre.
He said that Lumineers went so far as to approach one of our co-producers. They said, “Hey, do that Edward Sharpe thing for us,” even though he wasn’t one of our co-producers. Actually. It’s a true story. Our agency was the manager of Monsters and Men, so they got our CD before they even recorded one. They came so close to Home after she showed them that we nearly filed a lawsuit against them. I was getting calls expressing congratulations when they were shooting Apple advertisements. People started doing this so closely.
