Perhaps in response to the backlash his rise caused, he’s released an album that suggests he is living through the great millennial nightmare: laying your soul bare, and finding only banality. But the way that song gleefully sacrifices Macklemore’s dignity without regard for the listener’s is typical. The 32-year-old Seattle rapper had the good sense to relegate “Spoons” to bonus-track status on his new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, his second collaboration with the producer Ryan Lewis and his first full-length since achieving superstardom in 2012. Recommended: Who Will Win at the 2016 Oscars? But is there anything interesting about Macklemore’s embarrassment here? How much is gained in the gross-out, really? Vulnerability in art is usually a good thing, and so is honesty. If you make it to the second verse, you’ll hear Macklemore lay into his girlfriend for having watched some Game of Thrones episodes without him, and then giving up the fight as soon as she starts giving him a handjob, which causes him to come immediately. But there’s another factor in understanding why a song like this makes some people want to die when they listen.
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