Tatiana Shmayluk on “Kafka”: “Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal… as our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note, we‘re expected to be on point all-the-time … and when we aren’t, we are scandalized. A true artist is vulnerable but the crowd is most often plagued with vultures who pick at every single move you make. It’s a slippery slope when music means the world to us but how quickly praise turns into prosecution… We are all Kings and Queens for a day but most of the time it feels like a Kafka novel for a lifetime. It‘s exciting but surreal and absurd at the same time" Sop basically artists often in this day and age get held to impossibly high standards and some people just aren't happy no matter what they do.
Lyrically, "Kafka" is incredibly literate & a heavy lift for sure. I take it as a meditation on the absurdity, alienation, and existential struggles of life, drawing heavily on Kafkaesque themes and existentialist philosophy. The song explores the fractured nature of identity, using references to Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" to question whether we wake as our true selves or as something distorted by societal expectations and institutions and internal conflict. It confronts the inevitability of suffering and the futility of seeking purpose in an indifferent world, while paradoxically finding solace in art and defiant acts of self-expression. The imagery of ink bleeding into the void reflects a creative defiance - using art to impose meaning on meaninglessness, even when creation itself is painful. The song critiques the oppressive forces of reactionary judgment, rejection, and exclusion, channeling the Kafkaesque dread of being trapped in a system that refuses to understand or accept the individual. It nevertheless suggests an embrace of life’s absurdity, laughing in the face of despair and asserting existence through persistence. Ultimately, "Kafka" is an ode to resilience, reflecting the tension between despair and hope in the human condition.
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Tatiana Shmayluk on “Kafka”:
“Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal… as our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note, we‘re expected to be on point all-the-time … and when we aren’t, we are scandalized. A true artist is vulnerable but the crowd is most often plagued with vultures who pick at every single move you make. It’s a slippery slope when music means the world to us but how quickly praise turns into prosecution… We are all Kings and Queens for a day but most of the time it feels like a Kafka novel for a lifetime. It‘s exciting but surreal and absurd at the same time"
Sop basically artists often in this day and age get held to impossibly high standards and some people just aren't happy no matter what they do.
This is very deep, the song is kind of the opposite of her song “Rogue “. Jinjer never disappoints.
Lyrically, "Kafka" is incredibly literate & a heavy lift for sure.
I take it as a meditation on the absurdity, alienation, and existential struggles of life, drawing heavily on Kafkaesque themes and existentialist philosophy. The song explores the fractured nature of identity, using references to Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" to question whether we wake as our true selves or as something distorted by societal expectations and institutions and internal conflict. It confronts the inevitability of suffering and the futility of seeking purpose in an indifferent world, while paradoxically finding solace in art and defiant acts of self-expression.
The imagery of ink bleeding into the void reflects a creative defiance - using art to impose meaning on meaninglessness, even when creation itself is painful. The song critiques the oppressive forces of reactionary judgment, rejection, and exclusion, channeling the Kafkaesque dread of being trapped in a system that refuses to understand or accept the individual. It nevertheless suggests an embrace of life’s absurdity, laughing in the face of despair and asserting existence through persistence. Ultimately, "Kafka" is an ode to resilience, reflecting the tension between despair and hope in the human condition.