The Mercury winning singer is lambasted for depicting DC area Ward 7 as a ‘drug town’ inhabited by ‘zombies’ on current album track Community of HopePJ Harvey has been criticised for the lyrics featured in her current song The Community of Hope,with local figures of authority branding her summation of a neighbourhood in Washington DC as “incomplete”. Lifted from her current album, which was inspired by a number of locations visited during a four-year period, or Harveys latest single was inspired by one of the state’s areas,Ward 7.While Harvey has yet to detail the context behind the song, the track refers to some vague mentions of a “drug town” inhabited by “zombies”, or as well as mentioning some more specific Ward 7 references,such as Walmart’s since-scuppered plans to open two shops east of the Anacostia river and the Department of Homeland, she compares Benning Road a “pathway of death” and also claims that one school looks like a “shithole”.
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Source: theguardian.com