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REALLYMUSICRADIO presents
BEN ARTHUR
When Ben Arthur ruefully sings, "The older I get, the more I realize/The best I can hope for is compromise," the singer-songwriter is only half-serious. After all, the young veteran hasn't toiled at his craft for more than a decade to give in without a fight. That line, from "Mary Ann"-one of the songs on his new album, Edible Darling-reflects the litany of near-misses he experienced after being heavily courted by several major record labels over the years.
"I never doubted that playing music is what I wanted to do," says the Virginia native, who laughs, "In fact, you can refer to me as 'The 'Artist Formerly Known as 'Waiter'." He says that music is what he lives for, even if at times he has had to do it while working in restaurants.
That grim humility and clear-eyed honesty extends to Arthur's lyrics. Often brooding and dark-laced, images of betrayal, sex, humiliation, faith, yearning and death float behind a super-melodic pop facade. "Edible Darling," a pulsing blues number, is about a friend who raises pigs to eat them. Like much of Arthur's work, it looks mortality square in the face: "The most beautiful angel/Is the angel of death/Vinegar-throated/Confused and bereft." The brooding "Tonight" has a shamed lover pleading to stay over, but it's also a chilling song about not being willing to go gently into that metaphoric night. Similarly, "Keep Me Around" is a morbidly tongue-in-cheek song, wherein Arthur one-ups McCartney's "When I'm Sixty-Four", asking that his body be treasured even after death.
"People can hear what they want in my music," he says. "Like in Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA', some people hear a patriotic anthem and others hear a protest song. If that happens with my music, I'm fine with that."
"In fact," he laughs, "that sounds perfect."
 | Heartfelt songwriter-pop
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