Double Down a theme album about "consequences." 2024 seems more than adequate to understanding the issues at hand, human nature, the planet we share, and the complexities we make of all that.

This single, How Did the Devil, is a story, sung like a dialogue between the "sinner" and a nameless woman. narrator. Is she the Preacher? The Devil? An angel? " It's like Dante asking Virgil about Hell. It's also a cautionary tale, a bedtime story, a Biblical passage, that asks us to consider what it is to fall from Grace. Imagine, sitting around the fire and seeing the flames dance as this story unfolds therein.
It's mesmerizing but also asks a lot of questions that take the listener down a slippery slope.
It's Dante's Inferno, set to music.
What leadership is --and how each of us leads a life of choices. Who advises, with that agenda, and how many lives are caught hanging in the balance by their judgements?

In all facets, those that want power, thinking they can do better, create new environments in which to experiment with their own wants. Is something old better, more wise, or not?

Does leading mean one uses guile, guilt, desires suspended on sticks, a voice from a burning bush, or Commandments written on tablets, to make things happen? D. All of the above? Who interprets the rules? Who gets used, duped, cherished, or informed? How? What will people allow? It all needs our careful thought.

The lines we, as groups, draw between Countries, States, races, religions, economies, sports teams, all cause strife. Is competition a good thing? Is change inevitable.

"See ourselves," she said, "the Devil is in the details...."