Andras Jones’s newest song, “Hating The Haters,” a bold and soul-baring anthem, sees him embracing compassion as a response to the corrosive force of partisan hate. Written and produced as an experimental one-night art project focusing on the theme of compassion, this song serves as a mirror held up to society’s fractures.
With sound production by wizard Fernando Perdomo, it’s off-the-charts hot and groovy, oozing warmth and urgency. The instrumentation drives rhythms, emotive guitar flourishes, and organ tones that drag like thoughts made audible. It’s a rich and fluid environment, but one that never upstages the message.
Jones, an established singer-songwriter who has used his voice as a tool of both art and activism, doesn’t shy away from complexity here, and he willfully subverts romantic conventions. “Hating The Haters” plunges into the emotional maelstrom of division, not to pick sides, but to untangle the deeper human cost behind our cultural gridlock. The song takes stock of how hard it is to escape the cycle of reactionary anger and offers up a melody of another kind that sounds both private and profoundly communal.
Jones’s singing carries the gravitas of someone who has been both observer and participant in the ideological battlefield. His manner is simple and straightforward. Instead, he welcomes you into a room that feels rare these days, a space where disagreement isn’t weaponized, and curiosity is seen as the most radical form of love.
The latest in a narrative arc that has carried over from Jones’s previous album “Recognize, De-escalate & De-code,” in which he reveals his ambition to use his music as a vehicle for emotional clarity and social commentary. This is space to breathe, think, and feel something new. At a time of perpetual division, Andras Jones reminds us that music is still a balm, a fuse, a refuge.
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