![]() I asked him if he’d meet me and let me in. On the way to the studio, I called Eddie the engineer, and told him I was coming down. He threw the ingredients for the sandwich he was making into a Ziploc bag and followed me blindly into an Uber. I ran into the kitchen and told him we had to go. Everyone was gone except my cellist, Josh. “I woke up the next morning with ‘The Joke’ beating at the inside of my best, trying to get out like a bird,” she writes. In fact, Carlile talks about all this meaning and history in her best-selling memoir, Broken Horses. This was the backdrop with which she wrote her now-infamous tune. This, of course, creates its own sense of alienation in an era when those rights are routinely threatened by areas of government as high as the United States Supreme Court. ![]() Today, she’s married to her wife, in a same-sex marriage. She knows what it’s like to feel marginalized, less than. So I played that, and then she wrote ‘The Joke.‘ I played her one of the greatest songs of all time, and then she wrote one of the greatest written since that one.” Background and Broken HorsesĬarlile grew up in rural Washington, taming horses and living in trailers. I mean it’s the way it affects you the way it’s big in the chords, just pulling every single emotion out of you. Thinking about that time, Cobb noted, “I was playing her Elvis Presley’s American Trilogy…there’s something magical about that recording. He played her An American Trilogy by Elvis Presley during a recording session. The producer, Dave Cobb, talked about that moment and its meaning, as well. “But it just kept nagging me-like the truth does, you know.” Cobb “It started off with Dave insinuating that we haven’t had a vocal moment like ‘The Story’ since, well, ‘The Story’ we all went home that night and I was like, who tells you to rewrite a song that you wrote a decade ago?” added Carlile in the same interview. The two were talking about her most famous song at that time, “ The Story,” which was by her longtime collaborator Phil Hanseroth, known as one of the two twins along with his brother Tim, for the album of the same name. The song came about when Carlile was talking with music producer and the song’s co-writer, Dave Cobb. The song is just for people that feel under-represented, unloved, or illegal.” ![]() Little girls who got so excited for the last election, and are dealing with the fallout. Boys feeling marginalized and forced into these kind of awkward shapes of masculinity that they do or don’t belong in … so many men and boys are trans or disabled or shy. Said Carlile in an interview, “There are so many people feeling misrepresented … So many people feeling unloved. But, as the singer makes clear, often it’s those same people who have the last laugh. The song’s meaning is rooted in the story of those who are criticized and beaten down. That record has followed the lead of the single and become a classic, as well, earning Carlile several Grammys and propelling her to international stardom. “The Joke” was released on November 13 in 2017 as the lead single from Carlile’s then-new album, By the Way, I Forgive You. To understand the song-its meaning, its history, the inspirations that birthed it-let’s dive deep into it.
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