Stephin Merritt and irony is one of my pet subjects to think about, mainly because he used to be ironic for the sake of making an emotional point […] and nowadays mostly just uses irony for irony’s sake. I don’t think I quite got at the point I was trying to make, but at least it’s out of my system until Love at the Bottom of the Sea comes out in March, at which point I’ll be back to pressing hypothetical copies of Get Lost into theoretical hands and crying about how The Magnetic Fields used to mean something, man.
Sally writes about writing about “Take Ecstasy With Me” for One Week // One Band. I love that people exist in this world that think about these things.
