not sure if im pro life or pro choice meme

Listen to “Where I’m From” for an example of what there is to love. I had been planning to write a post about this entire album (kind of like I did for Prince’s 1999), and maybe I still will, but it is suffice to say that DP’s reflective and intelligent raps, seamless appropriation and transfiguration of jazz samples, and playful integration of funkadelic cosmic sensibilities makes Reachin’ a stand out. Despite the fact that not one of the three members of the band are from New York City, their lyrics and attitude capture a sense of that fly city as I like to remember it. I love Digable Planets and that first album, Reachin’, has been in some kind of steady rotation for me for the last 26 years. Yet while “Brick” was Ben Folds Five’s breakout hit-the kind of Top 40 song that makes fans of the first album decry that their favorite band has sold out-“La Femme Fétal” is an album deep cut, a song that is probably unknown to many fans of DP’s one hit, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” They both came out in the 90s, both tell stories, and both are by men (while Mecca the Ladybug was part of Digable Planets, neither she, nor the other member of the band, Doodlebug, appear on the track, which was written and produced by Ishmael Butler (aka Butterfly)). I decided they’d make a good pair for my “Songs in Conversation” series.Īs the list I referred to above makes clear, these are not the only two pop songs about abortion by far, but as two that pierced my consciousness in the 1990s I can’t but think about them together.

Recently skipping 1997’s “Brick” by Ben Folds Five during a re-listen of the band’s Whatever and Ever Amen album, and the fact that I never skip the other song about abortion that I know well, “La Femme Fétal” off of Digable Planets’s debut album, 1993’s Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), got me thinking about abortion as a song topic. Abortion makes even the saddest of popular love songs into too much of a bummer. It seems that the potential consequences of all that sex and love that pop songs are obsessed with does not make for as catchy and as upbeat a song as many of us would probably prefer. I was surprised there were so many, but I was not surprised that most of them were not really very popular songs. Sometimes the artists or thematic concerns makes the pairing obvious, for others, the songs have somehow fallen together in my mind, answering each other in unexpected ways despite being from different times or genres.Īccording to Wikipedia, there is a pretty long list of songs about (or that mention) abortion.

Songs in Conversation is a series of posts in which I write about two songs together.

Not sure if im pro life or pro choice meme