“I dropped an album. Really”
Photo: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images In many ways, my life in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election is extremely similar to my life in college. Both have been periods during which I learned a lot of information that I immediately forgot, and in both, I have been consumed with anxiety over what the future holds. Now, another unfortunate parallel: listening to an obscure, boring album by some guy I’ve never heard of before in my life.
On Tuesday, someone named Tim Ryan — I think? — who is running for president, tweeted, “I dropped an album. Really,” and shared a link to his album, A New and Better Agenda, on Spotify. As far as albums by white midwestern guys go, I would say A New and Better Agenda falls somewhere below Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, and above Jonathan Franzen’s audiobook of The Corrections. It consists of ten tracks — an intro and an outro, and eight policy singles. In each one, Ryan speaks evenly into the mic, outlining his stances on subjects like “Immigration,” , “College Affordability” , and “Education” .
As a whole, it’s inconsistent. One of his weakest tracks, “Healthcare,” doesn’t mention Medicare-for-all, and has hardly any melody to speak of. But track 4, “Regenerative agriculture,” makes some good points about the harmful environmental impact of agricultural monopolies, and I wouldn’t mind listening to it while I go on a run, or when I’m getting ready to go out.
Overall, I would give the album a B-minus. It’s not terrible, but both back in college, and now, I’d probably rather listen to a cool professor.
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