The Virile Man’s Guide to Liking Joanna Newsom
It’s completely understandable that many people don’t get Joanna Newsom. Don’t like Joanna Newsom. And want anything Joanna Newsom related out of their homes. Now. But please, hear my cries for leniency. With so much truly terrible garbage coming out of our speakers, televisions, computers, iPods, etc., Newsom is a breath of fresh air. Yes, she’s odd. Sure the songs on Have One on Me are way too long. Yes, the Medieval thing is trite. But just like “Ted,” the stoned hacky sacker, or the freak on the uni-cycle with the jester hat juggling outside of Starbucks in your hometown, there’s something amazingly, redemptively refreshing about the oddities of America.
