Music Review // Andy Frasco & The U.N. "Life Is Easy"

If you wanted to be the type of crusader who went out and fought against injustice, in the year of 2025 you would by no means be in short supply.   The amount of such things happening in this world just seems to grow with each passing moment and many of the things already happening just seem to be getting worse.   Andy Frasco has somehow managed to create a song that both touches upon those ideas- calls out of these wrongs- while also acknowledging that "If you let it be, life is easy" because if we really were to sit down and think only about all of the wars (actual wars plus race wars, class wars etc) we would likely drive ourselves crazy.

"Life Is Easy" has a steady rhythm that is between folk and country.  It has that little bit of twang to it where it could go either way, but it also feels like the type of acoustic song Bob Dylan would sing in protest back in the day.  It's pleasant, musically, which it allows it to also get its message across as this has two different ideas to think about.  Yes, it recognizes that a lot of what is happening in the world right now is bad and shouldn't be happening, but it also gives us some personal restraint as we still need to find that beauty inside of the little things which make life worth living.

This can all come out within two different sets of lyrics, though much of the verses are about what's wrong.  Perhaps more powerful words have not been in a song than: "But we're all eating up / The shit they're feeding us / They're selling us the blood / While they're all bleeding us" If that isn't somehow a message of us making the money for billionaires just to turn around and buy whatever they're selling as well I don't know what is.  But we have to find that comfort and stay grounded mentally, which comes out in lines such as "And I walked outside and the birds were singing songs".

There has to be a balance in life and Andy Frasco can really bring that to light on "Life Is Easy" because in many ways this song documents the ways in which life is, in fact, not easy.  But just because bombs are being dropped in other countries while in the United States people are losing more and more rights every day, we can't just hide under our beds and hope it goes away.  Sometimes getting out there and doing things which make us happy can save our own sense of sanity, but also going out to things like live music and having open discussions about such events can also do good.