Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆
This is a comedy rock type deal, I take it? I’m not saying this because “Kimberly Kankowski,” the new single by Blind Uncle Harry (to be released on December 4th of this year!), is a bad song – the tune itself is fine. But the lyrics it has on show at first glance appear to be a blatant parody of “woke culture,” discourse of the kind that would hardly pass in 2025 if not backed by the pretense of irony. It really is quite the trip; what should be categorized as “offensive” turns into a tongue-in-cheek statement on the rather abominable extremes woke culture can reach, and the public reaction to those, all through the sheer daftness the lyricism justifies. And while there’s nothing wrong with someone’s pronouns being “her and she, [though them and they are okay too],” being vegan or shopping organic, the comic extremes this song goes to (“Folks said she ate babies for lunch / Transexual orgies during brunch”) make it an apt satire of what conservatives often interpret liberal culture as. And when seen through this lens, “Kimberly Kankowski” truly is a spectacular piece.
The hillbilly americana backing is what really sells this as such. While the music is hardly consequential, the mix of a “man, liberals are fucking stupid” narrative with country music (a genre commonly associated with republican rednecks) is a stroke of genius on Blind Uncle Harry’s part. The shittily photoshopped single cover of what I presume to be a caricature bearing the singer’s face over an acid trip-esque background acts as a sort of paratext to further the notion of rightwing nonsensicality. Man, I love comedy rock.
While I do enjoy the social commentary going on here, and find the entire concept to be rather amusing, I just wish the music had more substance to it, more meat – it is my job to review the music before all else, after all, and unfortunately there’s not a whole lot going on here… the songwriting is alright, “good” even, but the melody passes one by and the arrangement/performance is nothing noteworthy either. It would be unfair to say that this song could’ve easily been a poem and nothing more than that, because the musical context really is key to the lyrical sentiment. I was just hoping for something interesting musically, and I am, as such, disappointed. Musical redundancy is the one thing that never fails to ruin a song, no matter how interesting the piece might be conceptually.
But you know, it’s a good song still. Though musically uninteresting at its basis, is it not a 7/10? I think it is, though I’m feeling conflicted. Conflicted because I feel partial to it, while also not caring for it whatsoever. Complicated feelings, that is. I have a feeling that “Kimberly Kankowski” will be a song that’ll remain in my memory as an entertaining specimen, but not as something I will ever feel urged to revisit – again, due to the utter nothingness it carries about as a song. Great concept, effective lyricism, okay-ish execution, and yet, boring song. Sure, what the hell. 7/10 it is. Man. Comedy rock. The world’s most confusingly divisive music genre.
ADVANCE STREAMING ON BANDCAMP:
https://blinduncleharry.bandcamp.com/track/kimberly-kankowski
ONLINE:
https://blinduncleharry.com
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Silia 
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