FLEET FOXES - Helplessness Blues | REACTION (Coffee "Ko-Fi" Request)
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TODAY'S VIDEO: Into the Music Reaction/Review - “Helplessness Blues” - by Fleet Foxes (Ko-Fi “Coffee” Request)
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You can't go wrong with Fleet Foxes. The new album, Shore, is just beautiful. When you were discussing this song, you were on to something. Robin was feeling the pressures of recording and this was a different one for the band as a whole. One of the guys who left became Father John Misty, not sure if you're familiar with him. Any way, after this record, Robin took a number of years off, went to Colombia University and traveled a bit, to get his head together. Glad he decided to resume with Fleet Foxes, the new album is a "must".
This album is perfect. Fantastic arrangements and production, very relatable lyrics, and just hits home in such a visceral way. And it only gets better with every listen. Truly one of the greatest albums to come out within the last decade. Glad you checked this one out!
Fleet Foxes are very atmospheric. When I listen to them, I feel like I'm outside staring at some majestic landscape. Or on a roadtrip watching the world pass by outside my window.
And they're magical live. One of my favorite bands of the last decade or so.
As someone who is around the same age as Robin, this song is very relatable.
Great request, great song and Robin is a fantastic artist. His latest album Shore is another beaut
Keeping aside the brilliant lyrics its just the wall of sound that the two acoustic guitars and harmonium create at 3:00 is pure joy.
I’ve been listening to this album since the first day it dropped 10 years ago and it’s still as lively and fresh as ever
Don't see many people reacting to the Fleet Foxes. Thank you.
Fabulous lyrics, voices, an absolute joy to hear. Love the whole album this is from
Thanks for reacting! I am noticing how good, as you mention, Robin Pecknold's cadence/phrasing is -- disarmingly simple.
The lyrics are fairly open-ended, but I feel like the song is about the exhaustion and confusion of striving in the world. The singer comes of age as part of a "me me me" culture -- everyone is a special snowflake -- but then the bubble bursts (literally in 2008), and we find it's not so great, we're living at the whims of megalomaniacal capitalists "who live only in dimly lit halls and determine" our futures for us -- and maybe this self-absorbed individualism isn't the best way to think about and live in the world. Perhaps instead of wanting everything, we should try to live more simply and for those close to us, which is how I take the last part about having an orchard -- the sense of fulfillment from simple, manual labor and living in harmony with nature. But then he seems to wistfully look back on the life of gain-seeking and hunger for fame - "Someday I'll be like the man on the screen."
This album is awesome but the previous self-titled one was one of the greatest albums of the last 15 years. A gem amongst gems.
Awesome analysis, guys.
Thanks!
Everytime I come back to these lyrics I am seen, I am contextualized, I am uplifted. Love this album and *adore* this song. I also feel it speaks to my generation's transition (young gen X to elder millenial) into adulthood, or perhaps any generation. Very Simon & Garfunkel also, folk is alive and well in the 21st century, and perhaps better than ever.
_If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see_
_Of the world outside is so inconceivable, often I barely can speak_
_Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself_
_What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?_
Love this. Thanks.
You're hitting a lot of my favorite songs lately. I had a friend once who liked to ask people what their "theme song" was, or what song would be on the soundtrack of their life. At that time (I was in college), "Wake Up" was my answer. By the time I hit my late 20s-early 30s, "Helplessness Blues" became my go-to answer.
I don't know what my song would be these days...
This album is in my opinion one of the greatest ever made. It perfectly encapsulates the experience of your 20s, lost and confused and trying to figure out what you want from your life
Robin Pecknold has stated that his favourite bands are Radiohead and The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds/SMiLE in particular). So would be appropriate to react to Daydreaming by Radiohead and Don’t Talk by TBB. Arguably the two best “ballads” of all time.
When I listen to Fleet Foxes, the word that comes to mind is lush. It's just so full and draws you in.
been in love with them since 2004, favorite band to this day
By the way, Robin wrote the lyric about snowflakes before the term "snowflake" became so derogatory.
The whole getting back to his love and being put on the shelf ties into the album as a whole. Robin Pecknold, the frontman, was in the middle of a relationship falling apart because he was spending a lot of time and money on his music career. His girlfriend broke up with him, but then got back together with him once she heard the album, but then they broke up again and the band went on hiatus for a few years and the frontman went to Columbia University.
Good info to know! Thanks!
Pretty spot on analysis there because Robin the songwriter shortly after the release of this album went off and studied at NYU essentially giving up the musician life for a while. He is back writing music and fleet foxes just released a new album last year
They have such an interesting and unique sound. - Greg
I think that the inclusion of an intimate relationship in this song fuses the existential questioning of the self with the existential questioning of a relationship. A relationship, after all, challenges your individuality. You simultaneously want to be the special person your lover deserves while also to a certain extent sacrificing your individual preferences or habits for the sake of the relationship.
Another angle with the relationship is that it can be a focal point amidst a lot internal uncertainty. It can be a source for sadness but also for hope and purpose and a romanticization of the future (picturing an idyllic, simple life where your purpose is to work within your relationship via a 'simple' job).
Thanks for the reaction!
Thanks for your thoughts on the meaning!
Tremendous, Mykonos is my favourite track but I don't think theirs a bad one. I'd suggest Never Get Old by Nathaniel Rateliffe next or Call Me by St Paul and the Broken Bones
Can you please react to Joanna Newsom? She's just as deft lyrically. A good song would be Have One On Me
U should react to some bands from latinoamerica, like soda stereo or los prisioneros, give it a try! :)
Being happy with just being... not fitting into modern society and all its challenges. "I'll come back to you someday" is his acknowledgement that he's stepping away from modern life for a bit to just exist - "Be" - but that he'll re-emerge again someday.