Did it have anything to do with the fact that the album sucked big time? That’s for them and their therapists to know and for me to wonder. Robin Thicke’s mea culpa Paula, for example, wasn’t enough to win back his ex, actress Paula Patton. There are plenty more, some more successful than others. I was literally crying in the club thanks to Tim Kasher. A while after its release, I saw him perform with his other band The Good Life, where he sang some more crushing songs about the end of his marriage. Its relentless rawness and disillusionment still feels like a fresh wound more than 20 years later. Cursive’s 2000 emo-rock concept album, Domestica, became frontman Tim Kasher’s exercise in expelling the agony of his divorce.
Although he claimed it was fictional, the album was written following Nelson’s own infidelity, the divorce that came from it, and his subsequent marriage to his mistress. Willie Nelson’s 1974 Phases and Stages tells the story of a marriage ending from the perspective of both parties, with each side of the album telling the story from their respective eyes. Instead of pulling something out of his ass as a final aggrieved bit of revenge, Gaye made something deeply personal, sorrowful, and, yes, at moments spiteful for his former wife. Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear is a soulful kiss-off to his former wife Anna Gordy, a record executive who was entitled to half the royalties of this album, per their divorce settlement. Rumours is far from the only album to release the bitter heartache of a marriage lost.
Every so often, one particular live performance resurfaces in my feed, and I’m always jarred by its rawness: It’s from 1997, and Stevie Nicks looks Lindsay Buckingham in the eye when she sings, I'll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you, unleashing 30 years of resentment onto her former partner. Today, many critics and fans consider the album the highest point of the band's career, forcing its members to relive it regularly in interviews even years after essentially vowing to despise each other for all eternity. Songs like “The Chain,” “Dreams,” and “Silver Springs” have become canon in pop music history, and specifically for anyone navigating the wreckage of a broken marriage. Making a divorce album sounds like a masochistic endeavor, sure, but also a healing one.įleetwood Mac’s seminal 1977 album, Rumours, chronicled the ugly end of all five band members' relationships, with Stevie Nicks and Linsday Buckingham’s contentious breakup fueling some of the most gut-wrenching tracks on the album.
It’s as if after a divorce musicians are compelled to make something great and special in some way so that the heartache can have more significance-if the art that comes from it is truly meaningful, it was not all in vain. And I knew at some point, the Divorce Album would come, and that it had the potential to be a beautiful, cathartic piece of music. It seemed amicable based on their joint statement and interviews that followed, but a divorce is a divorce. But then came the end of the love story of Kacey and Ruston.
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