Stop Pretending You Don't Like Paul Simon

by Sean NelsonPaul Simon brings Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour to KeyArena on May 18. Tickets are absurdly expensive. Illustration by Sophie Franz
This story is presented as part of the spring 2018 edition of The Stranger's Art + Performance Quarterly.
During Paul Simon's career making records, the music in which he specializes has transmogrified wildly, from teen fad to global hormonal explosion to Serious Art Form to self-serious indulgence to failed revolution to nostalgia delivery device.