Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert has come to the defense of the band’s hit “Home” after social media discourse dubbed the 2009 single the “worst song ever made.”

Over the past week, a decade-old video of the band’s Tiny Desk performance of “Home” has been unavoidable on Twitter, with users both mocking the performance and blaming Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros for the “stomp clap” subgenre of bands that followed in their wake.

After a few (90 million!) views, the chatter got loud enough for Ebert himself to address the situation, as well as defend “Home” as “apparently a good song.” “It’s a question I’ve asked myself plenty — is home a good song?” Ebert wrote on Instagram.

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