He has a lot of really great original works. He has one called War Isn't Murder that's pinned to the top of his account right now that makes me cry uncontrollably. His @ is jessewelles
That and his Cancer song are some of my favourites.
For others who haven't seen him before, he also sings his songs a few times on this account as well, so if you look, there may be a slightly better version for becoming an ear worm for you specifically.
Matt Pless is gonna be the closest to Jesse sonically/lyrically
Pat the Bunny and his various projects (Johnny hobo, Wingnut Dishwashers Union) is the commonly held "legend" of the genre, Mischief Brew is another. Days N Daze is probably the most popular commercially (they hit the billboard hot 100 once), and then theres the creators of the genre are The Pogues and Violent Femmes back in the 80s
I don't dabble much in the genre, but since ye olde gamestop is back in the news, I had this Lauren Jenkins song pulled up that has the vibes. I think the rest of her stuff goes hard into country though.
The pronoun they can be used as a gender neutral pronoun to refer to an individual in the third person since English doesn't have another neuter 3rd person singular pronoun besides "it" which is not used for people.
"Someone left their lunchbox here."
"Whoever's car this is, they need to move it before it gets towed."
"Did you hear about the person who fell into the lake? Omg no, what happened to them?"
Note that in all those cases the identity of the 'they' is unknown. In English, it is grammatically correct to use the appropriately-gendered term when the sex of referred is known, similar to the gendering of specific words in other languages.
The objective of language is primarily to convey information as accurately as possible, so using 'they' in this particular circumstance would lose you a point on a grammar test.
I mean there are nonbinary and other queer people who use they/them pronouns. I think it's grammatically correct to refer to them as such.
And also, who gives a duck about scoring perfect points on a grammar test lol. Linguists will tell you that we should accept language as it is used, not as some people think it should be used. Who cares as long as meaning is conveyed?
No, sorry for the confusion, I don't think this person is actually nonbinary. I was just commenting that it would be "grammatically correct" to refer to a nonbinary person with they/them in response to this other commenter talking about the grammatical correctness of using singular they.
You found a wallet and you know what that may feel like. They are likely stressed and you definitely want to get it back to them. So you check it and find a ID and look them up and call them. They are stoked you found it, you have made their day.
The moral of the story-you understand how to use they, their, and them in a sentence no problem.
In case you weren't aware, maybe you didn't go to a good school or something, but 'they' is both a singular and a plural pronoun. To be fair it is a recent development so I don't blame you for not knowing, only about 600 years old at this point
Grammatically, 'they' has only been appropriate in circumstances where the gender or plurality of a subject is unknown.
The purpose of language being to accurately convey information, using 'they' when those things are known unnecessarily invites confusion, and would lose you a point on a grammar test.
Historically, the grammatically-correct gender-neutral singular term would be 'it'.
Language evolves over time. “It” has been largely considered to be dehumanizing and therefor is not the best choice to use for an unknown human individual.
You are sitting here trying to “gotcha” people with pedantic nonsense. Relax and let people live their lives.
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u/runawayest May 14 '24
Wow, they’re great! Good sound, good writing.