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Short post tonight because the internet is on the fritz. I wanted to go as indie as possible for this post, so I'm thinking of a song with a lo-fi recording style that sounds like it would be used on an indie movie soundtrack (that's looking at you Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.) Furthermore it needs less than a half million hits on YouTube. And to top it all off, for me at least, it needs to have some cute lyrics.

Lo and behold we have a winner. "To Be Objectified" by Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, there's really not much to know about it other than what I told you above. It's not a particularly a phenomenal song, but it catches my interest which is why I'm choosing it for the song of the day. I did, as usual, do a little research in to Jeffrey Lewis. His music is described as Anti-Folk, which I'm not sure is accurate considering how folk-y "To Be Objectified" sounds.

After perusing the meaning of "Anti-Folk" I found this definition on the good old Wikipedia (also the main source for 99.99% of anything I have ever said) they described anti folk as "the music tends to sound raw or experimental; it also generally mocks seriousness and pretension in the established mainstream music scene." Man! That is almost as pretentious as even posting about something as absurd as anti-folk. This post couldn't get any more pretentious (HEY! Pitchfork, look at me I can write about a band no one has heard of too!) so I'll just end it I guess. Cheers!

"To Be Objectified" by Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard from Em' Are I (2009)

-S