“Meaning looms beneath the surface of Phoenix's songs, thanks to Thomas Mars' oblique proclamations on love and art and the rest of it. So there's a lot of room for interpretation; Dinosaur Jr.'s recent take on "Entertainment", the first single to be released from Phoenix's forthcoming LP Bankrupt!, turned it into a creaking, sad-sacky bar ballad full of regret, hung up on the line about how "once ”
