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May 13th, 2010 9:12am

It’s Always The Ones That You Least Expect


Tracey Thorn “Oh, The Divorces!”

“Oh, The Divorces!” is written from the perspective of an outsider looking in on other people’s lives, sorting through all the second hand news of heartbreak and divorces, and trying to figure out what it all means, if anything at all. The subtext is what makes this song so poignant: If this is what happens to everyone, isn’t this just going to happen to me? When is it our turn? Tracey Thorn invests her song with a great deal of empathy for her subjects, but there’s no shaking that unspoken dread at the core of it, that nagging fear that most every partnership is subject to entropy. She sounds resigned to all the predictable dramas, but she wouldn’t be singing this if she didn’t hold out some hope that these things can work out, and that love can endure.

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