We get a lot of emails here at TheVine headquarters. In between solicitations, abuse, penis enlargements and news about bands "unleashing" their new albums (groan), a few nuggets pop through, being, if not great, then amazing.
Take for example this one today.
Powerful, beautiful, makes you think a bit?
It's a protest ballad about Schapelle Corby.
When You Tried To Tell The World...Song For Schapelle Corby
I'm not going to post the artists name in case, you know, she has a career or something. And let's get one thing straight; whether Corby took a bunch of marijuana into Bali or not, 20 years in prison is a grossly horrible outcome for such a crime. In Australia she could have murdered your family and gotten less jail time than that.
Nontheless, there's no sugar coated way to say this, mysterious emailer: Sweet Baby Jesus this is a godawaful song. Christ, it's horrible. I'm surprised it's not on Ben Lee's record, he goes for these sortof lionised women scenarios right?
LYRIC WATCH!
"Invisible visions that ears can't hear".
So...if you can't see a vision, and can't hear it - at least with ears - then...wait, I'll try again. You hear visions without ears? No, you have visions that you know are there but you can't see them, nor use your own ears to see them? Invisisilent? You only know they're there because of the interference on your CCTV footage perhaps? Or there's footprints left in the sand? On the shores of your addled mind?
Ironically, this would all be much easier to watch high. Also, keep an eye out for the POORLY PHOTOSHOPPED SCALES OF INDONESIAN JUSTICE!