What a song can do

"If the group is at all bothered by taking on a pariah status among those who think that this Lady A unfairly got the upper hand on the Black blues singer also known as Lady A in the process of shedding its former racially problematic identity, or bothered by anything else, it was never destined to show up in any additional hints of self-reflection in the songs. It's a whole new level of album-making as distraction ... Left unspoken is the advice Lady A has taken to heart: When in doubt, revert to the feel-good, and assume fans aren't any more interested in acknowledging elephants in the room than you are".

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