John Grant: America is a culture of manipulation

"We get the government we deserve, I guess, because our entire society is built on marketing and manipulation. It's not just the US but the US has certainly been the purveyor or the cheerleader of this way of life more than any other place and sold it to the rest of the world as the way to go" - singer-songwriter John Grant says in The New Cue about hist new album 'Boy From Michigan', out June 25. That's the presumed facts, and then there's his emotions towards the society: "I mean, I love it, it's a great place, there's lots of great things, there's so much incredible beauty about the landscape and many of the greatest people I know live there and I have dear friends and I have family but I don't know, I don't feel I feel romantic about Michigan, but I don't feel romantic about the US flag".