No song exists strictly within the milieu that the songwriter imagined for it. The magic of music is in the silent, but very real, interaction between the artist and the audience members, who are free to engage with and interpret the original work on their own terms, reframing it within the context of their own experiences, thoughts, and values. Somewhere, someone hears “My Humps” and is struck by an emotion they didn’t know existed, deep in their chest: That’s how I feel inside all the time, they think to themselves. This is simply how music—how all art, really—works. The alchemy when an idea that began with one person becomes something that belongs to the wider world is perhaps why we are compelled to create in…
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