{"id":14526,"date":"2013-01-08T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14526"},"modified":"2013-01-08T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:41:26","slug":"watch-dirty-projectors-sing-impregnable-question-a-realists-wedding-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watch-dirty-projectors-sing-impregnable-question-a-realists-wedding-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dirty Projectors Sing &#8220;Impregnable Question&#8221;&#8211;A Realist&#8217;s Wedding Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 <strong>Dirty Projectors<\/strong> released their <strong>Swing Lo Magellan<\/strong> album to critical claim, ending up on many <strong>Best Albums of 2012<\/strong> lists (including in our Honorable Mentions). \u00a0 In addition to just being generally superb players and singers, for many the band&#8217;s allure lies in leader <strong>David Longstreth&#8217;s (<\/strong>and band&#8217;s) complex, unique, and risk-taking song structures that oft-times employ harmonic, rhythmic and\/or lyric eccentricities.\u00a0\u00a0 In short:\u00a0 these ain&#8217;t just silly love songs.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally though, <strong>Dirty Projectors<\/strong> will confuse the listener by tossing in a comparatively accessible and straightforward song.\u00a0 Check the band out below on <strong>WNYC&#8217;s Soundcheck<\/strong>, unplugged (with warm, upright bass) and harmonizing on their comparatively straight-ahead song <em><strong>Impregnable Question<\/strong> <\/em>off the album.\u00a0 An eyes-wide-open love song for realists, we could even imagine <em><strong>Impregnable Question<\/strong><\/em> being sung at weddings next summer.\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Would you believe at vow-renewal ceremonies?\u00a0 After are the song&#8217;s lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dirty Projectors: &quot;Impregnable Question,&quot; Live On Soundcheck\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSZ-yjuTCa4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is ever the impregnable question of why?<br \/>\nwhat did or didn&#8217;t pass?<br \/>\nit would help to seek comfort in destiny<br \/>\nbut I really don&#8217;t, we don&#8217;t see eye to eye<br \/>\nbut I need you and you&#8217;re always on my mind<\/p>\n<p>Whether there is or isn&#8217;t any position<br \/>\nyou care if I take or if I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nI will always hold what we shared so long<br \/>\nto be the only love, and though we don&#8217;t see eye to eye<br \/>\nI need you, and you&#8217;re always on my mind<\/p>\n<p>Through time, and through many a situation<br \/>\nwe both look forward, side-by-side<br \/>\nwe have shared it all, we have both stood tall<br \/>\nwhat is mine is yours, in happiness and in strife<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re my love, and I want you in my life<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re my love, and I want you in my life<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re my love, and I want you in my life&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 Dirty Projectors released their Swing Lo Magellan album to critical claim, ending up on many Best Albums of 2012 lists (including in our Honorable Mentions). \u00a0 In addition to just being generally superb players and singers, for many the band&#8217;s allure lies in leader David Longstreth&#8217;s (and band&#8217;s) complex, unique, and risk-taking song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}