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Jun 8, 2021Liked by Michael Kandel

Interestingly you completely ignore ‘hands up’ song which openly and quite explicitly deals with why he is sad. Curious as to why you didn’t mention it

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Thanks for reading. Hard to cover everything without this piece getting too unwieldy, but I'm not sure what you're referring to in that song. There's a part about how he took a break from live performance because of his panic attacks and Covid-19 shut down his planned return. Not sure how illuminating that is, though.

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It’s… the whole point of the special. Him grappling with his relationship to performing and the audience. also the relationship between ‘content’ and ‘consumer’ at large. Not sure how you can say he doesn’t tell us why he is sad when he literally talks about it.

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Wow this is a perfect review, reflected my thoughts on the special but with better articulation. And it raises the best critique which is: why lead the audience to believe that you live in this guesthouse!? You have a big house bc you’re successful. Both too meta and not meta enough.

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