She is happy to pick music that matches the venue and crowd best.

This has required her to prepare music of all kinds for each location to fit each audience. Some include bars, coffee shops, bowling alleys, wineries, convention expos, and music festivals. “Everybody Knows” may not deliver news on the state of the world that anyone would want to hear, but, thanks to Cohen’s eloquent words and seductive delivery, you never tire of listening to it.Macey has played at a wide variety of venues all over the country. The repetition of the title phrase suggests that Cohen has not been blessed with some unique power of perception, but that these truths should be evident to anyone who walks through the world with even an ounce of coherence. Running through this litany of horrors is a subtle criticism of those who ignore it all in favor of their own self-interested pursuits: “Everybody’s talking to their pockets/Everybody wants a box of chocolates/And a long-stemmed rose.” Whether that heart belongs to Jesus or Leonard is never revealed, but, at song’s end, it’s poised to explode all over the whole sordid scene.Ĭohen also makes room for flashes of mischievous wit, like when he implies that the death of a parent and the death of a dog are equally disturbing. And it wouldn’t be a Cohen song if he didn’t bring spiritual concerns into it, with references to Calvary (juxtaposed ironically with Malibu beaches) and the Sacred Heart. “Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful/Ah, give or take a night or two,” he sings. Yet he also brings things down to a personal level with a verse about infidelity between two lovers.

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