There are a whole bunch of accounts on X that farm engagement by asking people basic questions about movies or music or whatever. The responses to these posts, as quote-posts, tend to go very viral because X’s algorithm loves quote-posts for some reason. Even though the site actively hides quote-posts now… Anyways, I digress, it’s a stupid app.
X users were asked this week what the worst song ever was and people landed on “Home,” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Likely because Gen Z has never seen what Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros look like and, yes, the 2009 video now going viral of the band playing the song on NPR’s Tiny Desk is, in 2025, violently millennial.
If you want to torture yourself by reading a lot of opinions from very dumb people about why this song is bad (I think it’s fine), you can click here to see all the quote-posts on X. But I, regrettably, have to push back on something that seems to have been lost to time.
This is NOT “stomp clap hey ho indie,” as I’ve seen users on X claim. This is obviously closer to recession-era folk or folk punk, which came years before. It was smellier and annoying in a totally different way. “Stomp clap hey ho indie,” which arrived around 2011-2012, was made by Mormons, midwesteners that were functionally Mormon, or British nepo babies and it was explicitly written to cash in on the need for Silicon Valley Keynote background music or plantation weddings where all the drinks are served in mason jars. Bands like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were involved with dangerously insane cults, hung out with people who ate trash and tattooed their dogs, and made songs that sounded like they were written by preschool teachers suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Thank you!!
i am so pro abortion it actually makes me mad when a character in a show is revealed to be pregnant & she immediately doesn’t get an abortion
like you can always tell they’re characters written by men when suddenly this carefree independent career woman starts talking about how wonderful it’d be to have a child & settle down booooo tomato tomato
