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Jane Weaver “Revolution of Super Visions”

“The Revolution of Super Visions” hinges on a question repeated in a funky refrain: “Do you look at yourself and find nothing?” The music calls back to the psychedelic of Sly and the Family Stone and Funkadelic, and Jane Weaver’s phrasing owes something to the way Sly Stone and George Clinton could position song lyrics as a sort of conversation with the listener in which their worst impulses are challenged and their best qualities are affirmed. Weaver pokes at the listener’s insecurities while trying to build them up, to be the sort of confident, self-loving, fully actualized person they could be if they could deprogram what they’ve picked up from culture. She’s not being didactic – more is conveyed by suggestion than explication in the words – but her positive intention is very clear. It’s nice to hear a song that is earnestly rooting for you to become a better and happier person rather than asking you to be or expecting you to have already figured this out.

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