Peace and Love

[...] Which brings us back to “Peace and Love.” If the Internet line didn’t tip you off that this wasn’t one of Marshall’s offcuts, “99 percent, y’all” should, as would the constant references to poverty that make so much more sense in the early 2000s than 2010s. You could call it a protest song — really, you could say the same of any closing cut called “Peace and Love” with a na-na-na chorus — but all she’s protesting for is her own continued relevance. “I’m in it to win,” she sings, and she means only herself, and she means there’s a loser; she knows there are stakes. Her “rap” is too brusque, and that would-be anthemic chorus is too pressed and dips into too sardonic an alto to galvanize anyone else.

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