REVIEW: TAYLOR SWIFT-FOLKLORE

4/5

Into The Woods. 

Grown folk, 'Man Of The Woods', Justin Timberlake took it to the trees, but still danced in a pair of Timbaland's for his last country inspired album in 2017 for his rep. Now the country come diamond pop superstar like legend Shania Twain, Taylor Swift is going back to her roots for her grounded and most groundbreaking album...let alone her most personal project to date (and she took it to the tabloids for her 'Reputation' to gossip folks in 2017 too), in the amazingly atmospheric 'Folklore'. We're not out of the woods yet like COVID-19 in this terrible 2020 that began with the tragic death of her friend Kobe Bryant (who presented Swift with her own STAPLES banner for most sold out live shows in the building that Mamba rocked. She has that prolific project mentality too) and his daughter GiGi and their friends and teammates, but Tay Tay is back to save the day. Not even a full calendar since her last album (the pure pop of last years 'Lover' smash that took her back to the top of the charts like '1989' or 'Red' for one of her best that showed her and the billboard will always, forever and ever get back together). Quarantined and locked down, staying safe at home in the studio at a social distance in the wilderness. Surprise motherf##### like Dave Chappelle said, when others are bum rushing the world's internet stage announcing their running for President (but please someone look out for Kanye...we're not making this a tired thing here), Swift is dropping, "unexpectedly like bird s###." Doing it B.I.G. like the Notorious one. In a year dominated by 'Women In Music' from Norah Jones to Lianne La Havas and so much rock and soul in-between (and we still have new ones from Alicia Keys and Lana Del Rey to come) this is Part III after Lady Gaga's age of 'Chromatica' space pop, interplanetary neon roots and the best album of the year in the sisterhood of Haim's California Summer classic that now has some competition like the Lakers and Clippers in the Florida Disney World Bubble 'till it all bursts.

"In isolation my mind has run wild and this album is the result", she took to Twitter as on the eve of its released she announced exactly that, just like that. "I've told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder and whimsy they deserve. Now it's up to you to pass them down." And oh how we will. It's all they deserve and the least we can do streaming like the tears that probably watered these creations. For all the 'Red' and 'Reputation' big-sellers my Swift lovers this is her classic cut like her '89 birthright. Welcome to her new world...it's been waiting for you. Let her along with The National and Justin Vernon be your tour guide lost in the woods like building a sill. Oh and you want to slow down time? The awesomely atmospheric Bon Iver is in the cabin for this album. Taylor Swift and Bob Iver on the same track what do you think about that? That's worthy of the price of hype admission in itself and this 'Exile' is one of the best tracks to date...of either artist as they sing, "I think I've seen this film before." But there's nothing quite like this as Vernon's verse sings, "I can see you standing, honey/With his arms around your body/Laughin', but the joke's not funny at all/And it took you five whole minutes/To pack us up and leave me with it/Holdin' all this love out here in the hall," as Swift counters, "I can see you starin' honey/Like he's just your understudy." Or how about the thread of the lead single 'Cardigan' and one of her best cuts yet as she iconically pushes a piano down a Springsteen river with a hungry heart like the ties that bind on a waterlogged piece of heavy knitwear. Feeling "like an old cardigan under someone's bed", this will have you, "dancin' in your Levis" Like Strauss as Tay's wordplay is back swiftly. But for all the, "heartbreak on the Highline," and verses of value like, "vintage tee, brand new phone/High heels on cobblestones/When you are young, they assume you know nothing/Sequined smile, black lipstick/Sensual politics/When you are young, they assume you know nothing", for the best garment song since we pulled the thread on Weezer's blue 'Sweater' as they walked away. It's the lasting lines of, "you drew stars around my scars/But now I'm bleeding", that will remain in her personal great American country notebook for many generations of songwriting to come like Dolly or Miley, as the pop icon of pop stars comes in and returns like a wrecking ball like the stadiums that can't hold gigs right now in concert. Save the music venue.

Tall trees to the bark beneath your feet, this album in black and white is all about themes explored like the great beyond. Past the natural order of things like a self-tiled portrait of 'Lianne La Havas' getting over a 'Bittersweet' break-up. "It started with imagery," she added with character to Twitter. "Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity." Just like, "a cardigan that still bears the scent of loss twenty years later." Can't wash that out of wool. "Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down", like a Tom Hanks 'Greyhound' or how 'My Tears Richochet', as Swift sinks ours singing, "I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace / And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves / You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same." "The tree swing in the woods of my childhood", were no longer feeling 22 or 'Seventeen', Swift peaks at 'Seven', "with Pennsylvania under me." "Hushed tones of," let's run away" and never actually doing it". For in your defense, not having one for, "never leaving well enough alone" (*hands up* GUILTY) looking for 'The 1'. "The sun drenched month of 'August', sipped away like a bottle of wine". Or 10 out of 10 like Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast ('Always Tomorrow' Cali' classic like a hotel in that state starting the year off as right as it could be) tweeted for this entanglement. "A mirrored disco ball hovering above a dance floor", for 'Mirrorball', the most shimmering track. It just 'Back To The Future' feels like a prom...watch out! That might be your Mum, Mary! "A whiskey bottle beckoning" like "pouring my heart out to a stranger" on 'This Is Me Trying'. "They told all my cages were mental/So I got wasted like all my potential," could be the words to a millennial anthem of lost dreams and broken promise. "Hands held through plastic", like being perspex phone guilty of being imprisoned in 'Illicit Affairs'. Or, "a single thread that, for better or for worse ties you to your fate," like the beautiful 'Invisible String' that's there like the epic 'Epiphany', no 'Hoax' ("you know I left a part of me in New York" she sings, showing what's left is her best), of all this perfect 'Peace'. But it's when Taylor gets her countryside storytelling on like the 'Mad Woman' or 'Betty' (bamalam) that she gets her most personal and profound like 'The Last Great American Dynasty' like Getty as Swift chases down Dylan's 17 minute take on the JFK assassination for his 'Murder Most Foul' closer he wrote like Lansbury on his latest 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' last month with a story about a girl called Rebekha. "A tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. Sometimes sung about." Like she said on the album announcements prologue introduction, "before this year I probably would've overthought when to release this music at the 'perfect' time, but the times we're living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed. My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That's the side of uncertainty I can get on board with." Amen to that. Now that's a message we can and should really take to heart in a disheartening to say the very least 2020. We've still got time left. Time to make it better. Taylor Swift album releases are always epic events-I remember someone getting sacked for playing 'Reputation' too early-but none have ever been as special-especially in these times-as this. And none quite as great. 'Folklore' is law. TIM DAVID HARVEY. 

Playlist Picks: 'The Last Great American Dynasty', 'Exile (Feat. Bon Iver)', 'August'. 

REVIEW: BTS-MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 - THE JOURNEY (Japanese Edition)

4/5

Journey To Japan. 

(This is an edited and expanded edition of our review of BTS' album 'Map Of The Soul: 7' earlier this year for this weeks release of their Japanese version, 'The Journey')

Map your way to Seoul, South Korea (by way of Japan) to go to the source of K-Pop juggernaut BTS and you will find the soul of this idol generation persona. Mania hasn't been this manic since The Beatles made one direction to the Ed Sullivan Show (or these guys genius 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' homage in black and white, don't adjust your sets) and left more U.S. teenagers screaming than 'American Horror Story'. In the middle of a trendy thrift store downtown last year in Seoul, Korea I heard one of their earliest, greatest hits 'Spring Day' playing sometime in September like it was the sunrise start of the season for the start of my adventure in the Far East. That's just how atmospheric it was and not just for me. With the energy of the public vibing to this record in-store like it was a live show. Beautiful. Like the fact that from The Graham Norton Show in my jolly old England, to Fallon, to Ellen. To a Time magazine cover and stirring, uplifting speeches at the U.N. lead by R.M., these boys have been inspiring a whole new generation they lead from the new school exchange to love themselves like the idols that they and we all are. It's a message that timely is as beautiful as it is powerful and one we all need now. From the soul of South Korea where suicide in young people famous and alike has reached epidemic levels, to the watching world struggling just as much as they are surviving with inspiration like this. But right now South Korea is more than on the map. No matter what the North or a dictator like Trump have said. He doesn't like the Oscar winning 'Best Picture' and international one 'Parasite'? But it sounds like a biography about him (word to Bette Midler for the joke inspo) and like the 'Parasite' production Twitter said, he's probably salty because he can't read the one-inch subtitles. But from Oscars to Grammy families and Best Picture's to Best International Acts, even in Korean, none of BTS legendary lyrics and moving message is lost in translation. The future is in Seoul.

Seventh year. Seven members. Seventh seal. Seventh album. 'Map Of The Soul 7'. "All seven and we'll watch them fall", these young prince's smoke 'em all. Now nothing will stand in their 'Love Yourself' way. From YouTube movies to Spotify interactive albums. They own the playlist of the streaming digital age like the core of Korea does. And this landmark album lands just at the right time with the Best Picture painting a portrait of Asia being the continent on the map with the 2020 Olympic Games being held in Tokyo, Japan next year. This time last year the 'Map Of The Soul' was all about 'Persona' on an extended play. And some of those tracks that floored us make the final cut here like a greatest hits package for this interactive album. From the idols biggest hit yet 'Boy With Luv' featuring a Stan like Haim or Matthew McConaughey (or myself. I love BTS more than I should love myself), Halsey hallmark, to the cool grooves of 'Make It Right'. All the Summer vibrant 'Lights' and 'Fake Love'. It's 'On' like a dance floor formation for these Seoul soldiers. Or how about the Army roll call of 'Dionysus' and the beautiful 'Black Swan' as powerful as Portman with its classic chereography and theatrical video, feathered in all black suits that set the stage for this album promotion portfolio photography you can see all around Tokyo like conbinis or the word Supreme. Concise cut classics for these IDOLS like the signature song of the same name as they take off on an 'Airplane' to the land of the rising sun to face themselves, rerecord and rap in Japanese like Rhymester legends. All in a 2020 where only BTS and the orginal fandom mania of  the Fab Four, The Beatles have only sold 1 million albums across the world they rule like fears and all these tears. But the blossoming flowers of this Japanese 'Journey' version shows there's lots more in bloom.

'Calling' on an atmospheric intro to their reworked and rerouted 'Map Of The Soul: 7' for their neighbours in the Japanese Market, BTS' 'Journey' in the roughest terrain of 2020 is almost complete. Following the 'Daechwita' of the traditional temple strong huge hit from Suga's Agust D and his definitive 'D-2' mixtape a few months back that broke records and new ground this year. The squad should be rocking stadiums right now with their whole ARMY 'On' and behind them in unison. Knocking it out the ballpark in the Saitama Super Arena or Tokyo Dome just like the capital city should be playing host track and field host to every Olympic event right now instead of being locked down in a quarantined and socially isolated bubble. But we all know what happened this year with coronavirus. And whilst we are all for the most part staying home and staying safe, taking to the podium BTS remind us to 'Stay Gold' with yet another hit from their artillery and probably their sharpest cut yet as steel sharpens steel in these hard times that don't seem to leave us. But like BTS donating $1 million to Black Lives Matter charities and their army of fans upping the ante by matching the same donation, these guys who know everything from struggle to discrimination are standing up in solidarity for us again. Reminding us that we can still love ourselves, even in a year we hate like losing Kobe and GiGi in January. "In a world where you feel cold/you gotta stay gold," they remind us. As "relying on the moonlight" they tell us that, "the eyes are diamonds/more beautiful than any jewel." But it's the beautiful ballad of 'Your Eyes Tell' that looks for more. "A future without you is a world without colour/Filled with monochrome coldness," they sing celebrating colour in all its light and not the grey or shadowy areas of what we thought was just black and white. But "even the darkness we see is so beautiful," they compellingly conclude showing there's joy after pain. There's no sun without rain and here in Japan we are going through the stormiest season right now of forever rain like RM. Redemption returning from the darkness of depression to a brand new day. "Please believe me." Knowing that what we are going through will be alright, because we are going through it together, as Suga sings, "Whatever lies in our way/Look far into the distance/The place you gave me is still/Where my heart entrust." Just like the 'Journey' of the iconic instrumentation and inspiration of the outstanding outro or our own one, there's still places to go when borders are open like the ones these boys broke beyond. With intuition, mysticism, inner wisdom, and a deep inward knowing, number 7 might get you to heaven like Chanel. This awakening and enlightening digit seven like strength and spiritual awakening is divine. TIM DAVID HARVEY. 

Playlist Picks: 'Stay Gold', 'Lights', 'Your Eyes Tell'. 

REVIEW: LIANNE LA HAVAS-LIANNE LA HAVAS

4/5

Green and Bold. 

Prince before he took the elevator to heaven and the world went crazy, bringing us down, "oh no, let's go" announced his guerrilla 'Hit N Run' tour live from Lianne La Havas' living room. Now what else do you need to know? Even without the crowning of the purple one, the best British singer since Adele, Amy Winehouse or Corinne Bailey Rae is in a queen, world class of her own reserved for the soulful likes of Jill Scott, Erykah Badu or Maxwell...she's just that good. Pardon me, great and one of the greats too. Just check her cover saying 'A Little Prayer' like Aretha for you. After asking 'Is Your Love Big Enough' with classics like 'No Room For Doubt', 'Forget', 'Lost and Found' (you want a love show? Grind through her ramping up a local Liverpool skate park. Or walking around the romantic evening streets of Paris, restaurant to restaurant. With a guitar pack strapped to her back), 'Au Cinema', 'Elusive' and 'Age' on her dynamic debut, her sophomore set was stunning, no slump. 'Blood' was a flesh and bone classic. Running like a Lionel Richie night through the arteries of our British Summer like Wimbledon or London's Kew Gardens with the Jamaican root (and how about the flag she flew for the countries colours in her live streamed concert, wardrobe change last night?) 'Green and Gold' classics like 'Tokyo', 'What You Don't Do', 'Midnight', 'Grow' and 'Good Goodbye'. We could, 'Never Get Enough'. La Havas is simply 'Unstoppable' like that unanimous, outstanding opener. And now photoshopped over the iron of Mike Tyson for her 'Can't Fight' music video in Haim 'I Know Alone' like creative quarantine (or her NPR Tiny Desk at home concert series) following her beautiful 'Bittersweet' blues and the red COLORS of its extended cut (as she sings, "Please stop asking, "Do you still love me?/Don't have much to say, let's speak in the morning/Please don't do this, I'm too far away/Don't know what to tell you, babe.") and the, "Paper thin/God only knows the pain you're in/But the future's bright/You've got God on your side/He's listening/Love yourself/Or else you can't love no one else/I know your pain is real", 'Paper Thin' strong second single, this is fine like a burning down kitchen dog meme. We may be corona locked down in end of the world social isolation, but at least we have Lianne with us through the speakers. Singing, "It seems that I won't be warned/And certainly, I saw a sign/I raged like a woman scorned."

"Mum's hooked." That's what my Dad said as Far East to back home we were exchanging live Lianne videos via YouTube with me alone in 'Tokyo' like one of her best songs for the record, lost in translation. Bringing us all together, Lianne is back like that. Just like the studio sessions music video of her Radiohead cover 'Weird Fishes' that weave through the flow of water like the natural healing that comes after heartbreak for this break-up album that makes up some of La Havas' best work for arguably her most personal project yet. "Yeah I hit the bottom/the bottom and then I escape," she sings from the rock to out the hard place. "Turn me into phantoms/I follow to the edge of the earth/And I fall off/Oh yeah, everybody leaves/if they get the chance," she adds mixing the real and the raw. "And this is my chance." Still the take on one of the best British bands classic records for a great Brit singer making her award of a career mark shows she is more than just us reviewers dropping the big name like the aforementioned, article beginning, Prince crowing (but you know he's listening...and smiling that smile). She is her own big name in her own right and shining star, bright light. Like Bailey Rae's beautiful slow take on classic rock act Led Zeppellin's 'Since I've Been Loving You', she's more than just one track...even if she does reinvent it with her signature sound and style. She's a definitive discography in her own wonderful work. On the killer track, 'Read My Mind', the sweet soul could bring life back to any broken heart as she sings, "I'm so into you/Oh I hope God is listening/The pure joy/When a girl meets a boy," singing about that "natural chemistry" and that excitement of the first few steps of love as we dance around the living room, cutting a rug, like her with a celebratory beer in the studio the moment 'Bittersweet' dropped like tears. Toast! On the refreshing guitar licks of 'Green Papaya', she laments "this river of doubt/help me to swim my way out." Talking about, "I'm greedy with love/But my hunger to give is strong enough," as we all relate to that love we can't get enough of...even if we don't think we're enough for. At least like a vow we, "promise to be pure in true", when we meet that one "partner in crime" were we "find heaven in you," making real love. Coming home in this album age sometimes you can get Spotify stuck on tracks for days...these are the two. If her debut was her 'Big Enough' coming of age and 'Blood' her best, her latest named after her name is the greatest when it comes to songwriting in its simplest and uncut, formidable form. The third time out still the charm.

Now with a trinity of albums big-three enough to fill a CD changer (if anyone still rocks those in 2020) or the perfect playlist to lay back in blues to groove to as your soul stirs at home, no need to be climbing the walls anymore like Radio head. The last two minutes of her 'Weird Fishes' cover is as classic and soulful as her guitars signature style. This one will soothe you, feeling it in your tapping fingertips to feet, laid back on your couch in quarantine waiting for a new day in the worst year. Soul music was always sung through the hard times, like everything was all good. Because after all life is a beautiful struggle. And sometime you have to find art in the scars. Just let the beautiful ad-lib harmonies of the 'Out Of Your Mind' interlude that feels like it's own terrific track that you could listen to on repeat for hours take you away into the hot night like an Isley Brothers gust of wind this season of bittersweet Summer rain, hoping to be born again. Her vivid vocals seem so unmistakably familiar and warm in this time were we all need a friend as much as it's unbelievable that she has been around in the mainstream now for closing in on a decade. We still remember that first Later With Jools Holland performance like it was yesterday...not an 'Age'. Now 'Please Don't Make Me Cry' (oh the memories) like said tack with that guitar that the moment you hear it, know that it's in tune with Lianne, but oh how it haunts in closing. Following Maggie Rogers and King Princess' dynamic debuts and best of 2019 albums it has been another incredible year for women in music. From Haim's 'Part III' best and greatest of the calendar, to best in the world artists like Lady Gaga ('Chromatica') and Norah Jones ('Pick Me Up Off The Floor') taking it back to their respective dance floor and smoky jazz roots for some of their best work yet. But next to Phoebe Bridgers 'Punisher' this amazing artist who (don't call it a comeback) has been here for years with her first album in a half decade gives us one of the best this week, month, year and probably decade in a 20's that should have roared like Gatsby, but has given us much more than a quiet storm blowing in. Still as we rise and get up 8 (for Kobe) like 'Seven Times' as "all night and day/I cry and pray." As Lianne says, "that's a good intro" and a way to get started again. Time to turn the calender over and give the second half another shot. All it takes is a closing 'Courage' and maybe this 'Sour Flower' can grow like the tone of this artists most beautiful brush stroke, with notes hit taking us as high as Aretha. "As hard as it may be." Like flying 100,000 miles, "just to get back to Brixton". Lianne is back home if you need her, "waiting for the fog to drift away/Letting the light in". "Getting stronger everyday/Keeping my heart clean/Working out/Just have to find my way," as the iconic instrumental end drum rolls us away. That's it...it's done. Let the black and white, personal, perfect portrait, amazing album artwork tell it with no grey areas. Just pure, stripped down soul power of these beautiful, bare, essential tracks. Even without the title adorned on it because what more do you need to say? This is Lianne La Havas. TIM DAVID HARVEY. 

Playlist Picks: 'Bittersweet', 'Paper Thin', 'Read My Mind.'

#TheStream THE ART OF THE QUARANTINED MUSIC VIDEO

I Know Home Alone. 

'There Will Be Blood' and 'Phantom Thread'. They're not just among icon Daniel Day-Lewis' best work. 'The Master' and 'Inherent Vice'. They aren't just among legend Joaquin Phoenix's. But Hollywood, Cannes winning director Paul Thomas Anderson's too. Like 'Magnolia' and 'Punch Drunk Love'. Or 'Summer Girl' and 'Now I'm In It.' 'Boogie Nights' and Radiohead's 'Anima' on Netflix. 'Hallelujah' and 'The Steps'. See P.T.A. for your P.S.A. isn't just one of the movie industries most iconic directors. But the music ones too when it comes to MTV videos with more hype than hip-hop legend Williams. From saxophone streets strewn with clothes, to stretchers running down the hot 'Los Angeles' pavement to the car wash and theatrical filming techniques in a closed down cinema, to bathroom mirror staying at home reflections written in blood red lipstick and toothpaste spit. The same man who photographed the portrait of Haim's best album and the summertime sadness classic of the year in 'Women In Music Pt. III' helped the three sisters of Haim like a 'Valentine' studio session film the most groundbreaking clips of their generations time. And this family friend partnership like their living room 'Forever' looked like it was made to last like waking up from the hangover of being punch drunk and in love and everything still comes up smelling like magnolia.

But then COVID-19 marched in the third month of the worst year of 2020 and everything locked down like it still should be. From the NBA straight away to movies in cinemas. But now like opening Disney World too early after trying to flatten the curve it looks like everything is going to burst like the Florida Bubble. Even if things like the economy must start up again it can surely wait a few more months? As we romantically drive in to movies (I don't have a license shamefully...can I Larry David, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' drive thru walk?) like it was the 50's and finally realize Twitching isn't as weird as it looks. One of the only thing that has thrived whilst we've (for some part and some of us) stayed safe and stayed home apart from Netflix movies (from Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' to...erm Will Ferrell's 'Eurovision Song Contest') is music for your Spotify streams. From Lady Gaga's age of 'Chromatica' to Norah Jones picking us up off the floor. Or Childish Gambino's '03.15.20' coming out of nowhere when quarantine hit. Or the double-up 'While You Wait' and 'Worth The Wait' pre and post (even though in all reality we still should be in it) quarantine EP's from R&B footsoldier Tank. From John Legend ('Bigger Love') to Bob Dylan ('Rough and Rowdy Ways'). To one of the biggest selling albums of the year in the 'After Hours' of The Weeknd, the best in the 'Women In Music' WIMPs and the indie one in Phoebe Bridgers' 'Punisher'. Music has held us down whilst we are in lockdown and artists have tried to find new ways to paint pictures for their projects.

Especially the go Haim's staying home but still going hard who Danielle tells us know alone, "like no one else does". "Been a couple of days since I've been out/Calling all my friends but they won't pick up/Found another room in a different place/Sleeping through the day and I dream the same," they sing as nights turn into days that are gone like their debut. And as these Valley Girls stay quarantined in what looks as safe as houses in the Hollywood Hills performing for your NPR Tiny Desk in perfect sync for your iPhone's or Zooming across Instagram to a virtual deli tour like "Now Serving 69", they still find a way to make music videos (this time with Jake Schreier) and invent quarantine cherography like the lessons they offer online for fans. Dancing through head in their hands boredom and treadmill scrolling phones like zombies, before turning up the speedometer in perfect time. All on a backyard Basketball court like 'Don't Save Me' that maintains a six feet social distance like a stepping over Allen Iverson laying out the Lakers Lue. And how about these Los Angeles girls picking up the camera and rolling to the Ingelwood old Forum stomping grounds of the Lakers for a foot race? All stepping for the music video for the harmony of their fifth formidable single 'Don't Wanna' that circles the coliseum like arenas marble pillars like a classic 80's Showtime Forum night that is true Magic. A fast break that leads to pulled hammy's like a ball fake and a classic car finish line pip for your photo. Music videos in quarantine have never been so inventive like Norah Jones' at home piano sessions, or Leon Bridges making video call 'Inside Friends' with John Mayer. This is a time from GQ to Esquire were Hollywood celebrities are filming their own magazine cover shoots (thank goodness for smart phones). And how about Phoebe Bridgers' flying around 'Kyoto', Japan like a Madonna 'Ray Of Light'? Or the alone in 'Tokyo', forthcoming big love album of best Brit Lianne La Havas showing she can fight back after her 'Paper Thin' professional looking home video with a social isolation one that takes on everything from Mike Tyson photoshops (someone call Jamie Foxx, he may have some biopic competition) to flame emoji worthy memes like, "this is fine". It isn't. But at least with all this music we have something to dance to whilst taking to the living room floor and finding life climbing the four walls that feel as safe as the houses we call home like where the beating heart is. TIM DAVID HARVEY.