My wife has been VERY excited about the release of the new Taylor Swift album, The Life of a Showgirl. I’m sure it’s great, but I don’t expect that its songs will resonate with me, a married 52-year-old father of three who doesn’t especially care about whom Taylor is dissing (in part since, these days, I’m much more worried about whom Donald is dissing).
Besides, I’ve already gotten my new-music buzz for the month, which comes courtesy of the title track on the album Night Will End by Larry Lesser, a mathematics & statistics professor whom I know through our shared interest in teaching STEM content via music.
Like me, Larry is better at songwriting than performing, but this short, simple song has just enough instrumentation and production to give it a glistening folk-rock sheen.
“Night Will End,” like many great folk songs, offers a broad but insightful answer (which I won’t spoil; go listen to the song!) to a broad problem.
While it’s certainly not the whole answer, it’s an element that is noticeably and tragically absent from recent words and actions by Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Vance, Vought, Kennedy Jr., Netanyahu, Putin, and many other powerful figures.
Let’s all keep striving to do better.
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