Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros' song "Home" has sparked recent debate on social media about its quality after being labeled as the "worst song ever". Alex Ebert, the band's leader, responded to critiques by emphasizing the song's structural integrity, which allows it to thrive in different musical contexts. He pointed out that "Home" has been covered successfully numerous times and noted a connection to the stomp clap folk-pop trend that influenced other bands such as The Lumineers and Of Monsters & Men, implying his band's pioneering role in that musical style.
Here's how you know when a song is good: If the bones are good, if the bones let the song survive context, if you pull it out of acoustic guitar, you put a piano there and it works, it's a good song.
Now "Home" has been covered multiple times, different things. Some of them are hits, like actual hit songs. Some guy takes it from baritone puts it in falsetto, you know, the one that went viral.
By the way we were the first to do the stomp and clap folk pop thing to the point where the Lumineers, they sought out one of our co-producers - he wasn't actually our co-producer - and were like, "Hey, do that Edward Sharpe thing for us."
Of Monsters & Men, they got our album before they ever made an album because our agent was their manager and she showed it to them and they basically got so close to "Home" that we almost sued them.
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