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December 23, 2020
If you attended the massive Christian music festival Cornerstone back in the day, there’s a chance you could have run into Poe.
Recently, Juliana Theory frontman Brett Detar was a guest on the
Washed Up Emo podcast, discussing his band’s reunion tour and reminiscing about the band’s early years and his time with the hardcore outfit, Zao. While discussing the massive, annual (but now-defunct) Cornerstone music festival, Detar said he remembered hearing that actor Oscar Isaac would even attend.
Sure enough, Isaac told Chris Hardwick back in 2015 that he would go to the festival as a teen.
Detar willingly listened to Alternative Press contributor Jason Pettigrew unpack all of his psychic baggage through the prism of his new music. He did reveal everything from the motivations behind the song and video to J-Theory’s scene-not-scene identity crisis and all the famous people from Greensburg. All four of them.
Is “Can’t Go Home” about unfinished business or business that ended a long time ago? You can’t return because it’s not the same as you left it? Or you can’t stay because
you’ve
changed? There seem to be some dual meanings at play.
First of all, what I think is the coolest thing about songs in general, being a songwriter and being a fan of the craft of songwriting, is the fact that if you leave things a little bit open, it lets a person put enough of their own interpretation into something.