Most of you are wrong. The song isn't tongue-in-cheek at all. Tweedy is actually a really easy guy to understand in some of his songs. Tweedy was very frustrated after A&R dropped him when Time Warner and AOL merged. He resigned with Nonesuch, another Time Warner label, which made no sense since the company just dropped Wilco.
This song was actually written during the YFH CD era, but released here after alterations that were made when Jay Bennett left. The song is a shot at the corporate music industry, how all they produce is shit and the real good bands never make it big. Whether you consider Wilco to be in that category, well thats up to you. Tweedy was definitely making a statement here though.
Most of you are wrong. The song isn't tongue-in-cheek at all. Tweedy is actually a really easy guy to understand in some of his songs. Tweedy was very frustrated after A&R dropped him when Time Warner and AOL merged. He resigned with Nonesuch, another Time Warner label, which made no sense since the company just dropped Wilco.
This song was actually written during the YFH CD era, but released here after alterations that were made when Jay Bennett left. The song is a shot at the corporate music industry, how all they produce is shit and the real good bands never make it big. Whether you consider Wilco to be in that category, well thats up to you. Tweedy was definitely making a statement here though.