Music Review // Eric Hirshberg "What's Not Wrong"

 

In the age of the internet and social media in general, it feels like people can find more things wrong in the world than ever before.  All of this information is at our fingertips, but no one ever warned us that all this new information we'd be getting would be depressing as hell.  Every day it seems like you can go online and find ten new things to be upset about just in the sense of what is going on in the current climate of the world.

Eric Hirshberg chooses to focus on the positives with the song "What's Not Wrong" and I think that we all need more positivity in life.  While there is undoubtedly a lot of negativity you could feed into in the world today, I also think of this song just being about those people who seemingly never have anything good to say.  You know, the type of people where you can tell them that the weather looks nice today and they'll tell you it's going to rain next Wednesday just to kind of try to ruin your mood.   

The sound of Eric Hirshberg on "What's Not Wrong" is also just somewhere between a modern Americana type of artist mixed with those names of the past like Neil Young and Bob Dylan.  There are just these very specific types of guitars which come out in here, and you can hear them even more so right before the end of the song, and it's something from the past that I think of like Kenny Loggins or Oingo Boingo but it's not quite either- it's just this Eric Hirshberg feel now.

Next time you have the thought of "Life sucks" or something similar, I want you to put on this song and then make a list of everything about your life that you like.  Even within the lyrics of this song, both music and books are mentioned.  Just think about how we even are alive in a time with the internet when people were once alive without electricity.  When you start seeing all of the things in your life which aren't wrong, then you'll start to see the world for what's right.