S5E7 - Dracula

It was about our episode on the song Jesus in LA by Alec Benjamin.

And this is what she had to say.

Hello, Sophie and Raymond.

I just listened to your latest episode about Jesus in LA and I had a thought to contribute.

The opening verse about making a business deal with the devil reminded me of the famous song, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, in which a musician makes a deal with the devil that the devil can have his soul if the musician can't outfiddle the devil.

The devil and the musician have a fiddling duel and the musician plays so incredibly that he beats the devil and wins back his soul.

I wonder if Jesus in LA is a song about the self-doubt of a musician.

In it, he makes a deal with the devil, but then he doesn't wow the devil with his music and he needs a savior to win his soul back, which may simply signify his own talent, but he can't find a savior and his hard work and talent doesn't free him from this deal.

So he's kind of stuck being friends with the devil or retreating back home.

I don't think this contradicts your guys' interpretation because ultimately the devil is wrong and Jesus actually can save his soul or his musical career in LA.

But I can't imagine that he wrote this song without the devil went down to Georgia in mind.

I thought this might be an interesting influence on the song.

So first off, thank you, Jenny, for writing to us.

And also thank you for bringing our attention to something that we absolutely should have thought about and mentioned on our episode, which is, of course, of course, I think Alec Benjamin for sure had the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia in mind.

And we just did not think about that.

Raymond, you had not heard the song at all until 10 minutes ago, I think.

So what what did you think listening to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for the first time? I

I love this song.

It is, as my sister likes to say, a bop.

So true.

And what I thought really struck me about this song, I mean, it is very much a different vibe.

It's a very different kind of song.

It's not like an introspective.

It's like a sort of standoff.

And it's very energetic and exciting and a really fun song.