Kurt Vile is a prolific and ambitious creative, which in a lot of cases is secretly driven by shame and self-doubt. Plus he's just now getting recognition in his 30s, so I'm sure he's had plenty of discouragement and setbacks. Yet I take this song as tongue-in-cheek, like he very much feels it when people and circumstances knock him back, but deep inside he knows he has to keep going and that somehow all this shame is actually a motivator. Most KV songs have some kind of chuckle or sarcasm built in.
Kurt Vile is a prolific and ambitious creative, which in a lot of cases is secretly driven by shame and self-doubt. Plus he's just now getting recognition in his 30s, so I'm sure he's had plenty of discouragement and setbacks. Yet I take this song as tongue-in-cheek, like he very much feels it when people and circumstances knock him back, but deep inside he knows he has to keep going and that somehow all this shame is actually a motivator. Most KV songs have some kind of chuckle or sarcasm built in.