Thao & the Get Down Stay Down is the kind of band that forces your body to move, even when you are listening to heartbreak and devastating loss and grief and death.
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Example: try not to tap your toes to this funky single, “Nobody Dies,” from their new album A Man Alive. In it, a woman remembers watching her father leave as a girl. “You made a cruel kid, come look what you did.” But the buoyant rhythm of the bass, guitar, and drums gives the song a gutsy, bright sound at odds with the lyrics, which lament the force of human denial.
We act like nobody dies
You act like nobody dies
I act like nobody dies
We act like nobody dies.
This is my favorite kind of juxtaposition: an upbeat sound and devastating poetry. Try not to dance!