Taste Test: Shayfer James depicts sad reality of the American dream on ‘Good Life’

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Truth be told, Americans were sold a bill of goods. The American Dream, as they call it, with the white picket fence, two car garage, and a dog frollicking around a three-bedroom house is nothing more post-war pipe-dreams. It’s the kind of a imaginary livelihood only “real” in glossy magazine spreads. It’s all bullshit. Musician Shayfer James takes the listener behind the curtain with his swampy new song “Good Life,” inspired by a mural painted in his hometown of Jersey City. It’s flaked imagery depicts happiness as only possible through buying things, but no one is ever truly content living such a life. “You want that good life / We’ve got the hook-up,” James taunts, dressing himself up as the twisted Wizard of Oz.

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