New Music: She Explains Things To Me

            

This is the latest single from the legendary Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.  "She Explains Things to Me"  and it previews what’s to come from the upcoming full-length Who Is The Sky? that’s due out on September 5 via Matador Records. The album is Byrne’s first in seven years, and the song off of it is in part influenced by Rebbeca Solnit’s 2014 essay collection Men Explain Things to Me. As one could probably get right off the bat, the theme of mansplaining has a presence with Byrne examining how men dismiss women’s ideas and points of view. He does this by switching the roles where he’s the one having things explained to him from a woman’s perspective rather than the other way around.Many times, I have marveled at how a friend, usually a female friend, seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do.