Just Because A Thing Sounds Good In Theory Doesn't Mean That It's Necessary
August Man SG
|Issue 200
Sometimes, it’s only right that the why’ trumps the what’.
FOLK WISDOM, by definition, isn’t conclusively ironclad. The proof is in the handy somewhat truisms humankind has long been socialised into accepting as gospel, the most unwittingly misleading of which, for me, is “Necessity is the mother of invention”. It’s true but not true; it paints a picture, but it doesn’t bulletproof it from tampering by placing it in a glass-fronted frame. What I’m crescendoing towards is this: We the people do not and will not need a country/country-tinged/country-chased/ country-anything album by the great and esteemed Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
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