Dear Decemberists,
What happened? Why are you doing REM covers? “Cuyahoga”? Really?
I wish I could explain to you how scared I am. I don’t understand what you’re doing. Are you evolving? Transforming?
Have you put down the french press coffee maker and gone to freeze dried?
I have to tell you I don’t like it. I have spent alot of time telling everyone how cool you guys are. I even followed you on twitter despite the whole plaid flannel scene you’re involved with. Hazards of Love, remember that? Rakes Song? Yeah! some breathtaking imagery that I had written at length about. What a unique and sensual sound you
had.
Cuz now?
Well you’re starting to annoy me, but the REM thing makes sense. You’re evolution seems to be early 80s art school. I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now.
You have take a great sound and turned it in to a giant cotton sack of recycle. I want to know why. Was the mortgage due?
Did your fans graduate from Brown?
Well alot of us are past that point of our life I don’t even know where my cap tassel is and nor do I give a crap.
I want the Decemberists back NOW.
I want them to sort of scare me with the imagery I want it to feel like another time in history not this 80s legwarmer pop crap sitting on the campus quad smoking a bone and wondering if the RA heard me getting lucky last night
For fucks sake grow up and stay the same.
Love
hel
PS if you want to hear the crap remake of REM’s ‘Cuyahoga’ google it.