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"Hobo chic", hahaa.
SOSP is maybe the Del's attempt at assuaging the record companies' growing concern that they were falling out of trends and the times, you know, so write something more commercial, concise, consistently more palatable. Their past records were sometimes a harder sell, because the diversity of styles were fairly large, which gave them a more wider appeal to smaller groups, but perhaps the real acceptance by a larger/ wider group was for much smaller of a period of time. Because really, the other records went from rockers to soul, to country, folk, protest folk, slight funk, ballads, etc.
For what it is, it's DA's most consistently pop-py album, I think....or at least to my ears. It does what it does well, and I love it for that on that level.
It happens to most bands.....they have a certain period of time that they're more popular, and then their popularity starts to wane. I think that "Roll To Me" may have been unexpected, and that the record company wanted more of the style of pop that made "Roll To Me" a hit. "Cmon guys, just write more of these types of hits" type of thing...."stop wasting your time with these political diatribes". SOSP sounds like, in alot of ways- that the "adult alternative" genre that they were unfairly grouped into after the rise of alternative rock- was on the decline and suffocated alot of similar groups that were suddenly left with no real large audience after their core audience from years ago had forgot about 'em, and the newer fans that got into "Roll With Me", their interest began and ended there.
That, to me, is what SOSP encompasses....the dichotomy of realizing that you're getting older and maybe aren't as angry at the world anymore and settling down.....but maybe not knowing where to go after that. Or maybe just being more content and accepting of the world around you. The lyrics are still self deprecating and world weary, but I think that the Dels packaged it in something a little less perceivably angry.
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