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I’ve said this many times before:
Great music will always wait for you.
I didn’t hear Abbey Road until I was 30. I avoided Springsteen until I was nearly 40. Now I’m nearly 50 and finally getting serious about Elvis.
If you haven’t heard How To Make Gravy yet, you’re all good.
Great music will always wait for you.
I didn’t hear Abbey Road until I was 30. I avoided Springsteen until I was nearly 40. Now I’m nearly 50 and finally getting serious about Elvis.
If you haven’t heard How To Make Gravy yet, you’re all good.
If you choose to make today, 21 December, the day you want to find out what the fuss is about, cool! I envy you hearing it for the first time. If you don’t like it, oh well - it’s not for everyone 
If you’ve never heard it, here’s the simplest reason why it’s a thing. Christmas is a really shit time for lots of people. The song is about a guy who’s fucked up, is in the clink and missing his family. And you don’t have to be in jail to relate to that - especially in 2020
Kelly also has a big First Nations following, on the back of songs like Special Treatment, From Little Things Big Things Grow (w/ Kev Carmody) and others. “Gravy” has particular resonance due to deaths in custody and rates of Indigenous incarceration
There are, in short, probably more deserving targets for a backlash than this particular song.
But rest assured about this. If you’re holding off hearing it because it’s very popular and you hate hype, it will continue to wait for you. You can listen to it in 2030 and it will still be just as relevant and well written as it was the day it was written, in 1996.
(Dylan, especially, waits for everyone. He’ll get you in the end.) https://twitter.com/damianwhite42/status/1340923652099870720
