Unca John Humorously Sends Up Extremist Delusions on Lively Power Pop Ballad “Your Opinion”

Unca John’s irresistible power pop hooks on “Your Opinion” and warmly welcoming vocals are a fantastic contrast to the subject matter of the song. Imagine Camper Van Beethoven having emerged in the 2020s and that pointed, wry sense of humor but with such a knack for compelling songcraft and you have an idea of what you’re in for when Unca John takes us on a tour through the recent years of American political culture when the most crazed notions and extreme views came out of the fringe into our everyday lives. Unless you’re a bit of a ring wing lunatic yourself given to flights of deranged fancy yourself you will recognize the people Unca John addresses in the song in humorous and succinct yet detailed fashion and even invoking an old ultra conservative ghost that never died off with the John Birch Society and has come to haunt even current dominant conservative circles when extremists call Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, some of the most corporate centrist Democrats of our time, communists and cultural Marxists. Unca John goes much further into that mode of thinking where people feel special because they think they have secret and hidden knowledge that the “deep state” doesn’t want us to know even though their hero and avatar of an entire movement was president for a full four years enriching himself and his family at public expense. Unca John voices our collective frustration with this bizarre wave of destructively delusional thinking that has been boiling for decades but which has seem to have burst in dramatic fashion all over public life. All in the name of people believing their opinion, without merit or uninformed by actual critical thinking, matters enough to be imposed on everyone else. Maybe this sort of no bones about it ridicule will help but even if not, Unca John has delivered a solid slice of pop goodness with some rhetorical grit. Listen to “Your Opinion” on Spotify where you can listen to the rest of his excellent 2023 album Midlife Crisis Vanity Project.