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"Back Home" Video Review
"Bayani" marks a creative and emotional leap forward for Blue Scholars. The four years since recording their first album has been marked by four years of war and uncertainty. People everywhere are looking for answers, growing tired of the banality and repetitiveness of the music and culture that currently dominates the airwaves. Similar to the wave of protest music that emerged during the Vietnam war, "Bayani" is a statement record stamped with the anger, depression and the slowly emerging hope of these uncertain times.
But the thing that makes Bayani approach tedium is the tone of Geo's voice itself, so laser-focused on the words at the expense of inflection that it borders on monotony. The chorus of "Back Home"-- a call to return our soldiers back from the front-- demands a certain intensity for it to resonate, especially with such straightforward phrasing behind it ("We say bring 'em back home/ For my brothers and my sisters who been gone too long/ Saying bring 'em back home/ And I don't want to have to keep on singing this song"). But he sounds more defeated than defiant, as if he just got a look at the Democrats' compromised no-timetable Iraq funding bill.
---Nate Patrin
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