{"id":1935,"date":"2021-07-04T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2021-07-04T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:43:04","slug":"dispatches-for-luna-max-17-love-you-so-bad-by-ezra-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches for Luna &#038; Max (#17) &#8211; &#8220;Love You So Bad&#8221; by Ezra Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QX8CiG4aRLo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This song got a bunch of (deserved) attention as the musical centerpiece in the trailer for Netflix\u2019s Sex Education a few years ago (it kicks in about halfway through the trailer, around <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hd2ldTR-WpI?t=77\">here<\/a>). The climactic Wah-Wah-Wah-Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa of the song\u2019s ending feels poised as the exuberance of new love exploding in the lives of these adolescent characters.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a powerful ending to the song but its transcendence is misplaced (or at least misunderstood) in the context of this trailer.\n<ul>\n<li>Side note: Ezra Furman performs most of the music for both seasons of the show\u00a0 (and she has a cameo in the first scene). The soundtrack is kind of a greatest hits of some of her recent-ish work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>See, the song <em>starts out<\/em> being about new love. But new love becomes comfortable love and hard times and buying \u201cdrugs from a parking attendant\u201d until finally, like a Tom Waits tragedy, the song finds one character getting \u201caccepted to college\u201d and transcending the shared \u201cgarbage small town rat trap.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>(The wah-wah chorus still hasn\u2019t hit by the time this person leaves the narrator in the dust. This is telling.)<\/li>\n<li>The narrator gets a \u201cdumb job\u201d in retail, just missing this other person.<\/li>\n<li>And then.<\/li>\n<li>And then.<\/li>\n<li>And then&#8211;you know this&#8211;life just keeps going.<\/li>\n<li>And we get to the final verse of the song and it knocks me out:<br \/>\n&#8220;I drew your name in the sand.<br \/>\nCame to the beach \u2018cause we used to go here.<br \/>\nI watched the blue wave cover it over,<br \/>\nDo what the ocean does best.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s such a small thing and the simplicity of these lines feels lived in in the same way that the Dear Sugar letter in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1933\">previous<\/a> dispatch does. It\u2019s a small fist in a grand song and it feebly threatens to make the whole thing \u201cpop\u201d like one of my favorite lines in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7YRWzxYS_nM?t=117\">Mountain Goats song<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s resignation and longing, <em>years after<\/em> this relationship\u2019s run its course. The narrator closes with a muted shrug: \u201cI feel fine, don\u2019t even feel sad about it, I just love you baby so, so bad.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And that\u2019s when that famous climax rises up.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s <em>not<\/em> a moment of joyful young love. Those wah-wahs? They are the wa-wa-water of blue waves crashing over the sand. 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