4.26.2011

Song 29: Don't Feel Right, The Roots

Album after album, The Roots deliver a song or two with political heat and light. The Return to Innocence Lost from their breakthrough Things Fall Apart will make you weep after it's through making you ill. Rising Down from the album of the same name tells the story of the earth spinning out of control (metaphorically). The song featured here, Don't Feel Right from Game Theory, was suggested by one of Halifax's best journalists, Metro reporter Alex Boutilier:

It’s a song about the invisible hand, specifically about how the invisible hand lifts a big invisible finger to entire sections of the population.