Music Review: TobyMac - "Start Somewhere" Single - Page 2

Case in point: "I can see it like a world premiere/When did my objective lose all objectiveness?" Clunky, vague and pointless, to say the least.

Or how about: "If I could turn my words around, you wouldn't hear a sound."

I've said it before and I will say it again: I do not care if people make crappy music. Creativity of all kinds ought to be encouraged. But when you have a subculture that so enthusiastically endorses and rewards sub-standard songwriting, you get situations like this, where a guy who works as a professional musician for 20 years actually gets WORSE at his profession.

That's hard to do. So, uh, cheers for that.

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Josh Barkey was raised in the Amazon basin of Peru, South America, and eventually attained the rank of "Man for Life" in the Canadian wilderness. These days he lives in a shed in North Carolina, teaching art and in his free time arranging words into …

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