PJ Harvey is facing the ire of Washington council candidates, who have compared the singer to Piers Morgan and dismissed her song as ‘inane’.

They have accused her of depicting Washington DC, particularly Ward 7, in a bad light in her her latest song The Community of Hope, which is the third release from the singer’s upcoming Hope Six Demolition Project. The album apparently features controversial lyrics about Ward 7, an underdeveloped area in the American capital. The track refers to the central Benning Road as a “well-known pathway of death”. The singer brazenly points a finger at the administration for turning a blind eye towards that area, calling it a “drug town filled with zombies”.

The release of the track has sent Washington council candidates into a tizzy, many of whom have kicked up a storm on Twitter.

Former mayor Vince Gray tweeted that he would “no longer dignify this inane composition with a response”. His campaign treasurer added that Harvey was “to music what Piers Morgan is to cable news.”

Councilwoman Yvette Alexander also joined him, by tweeting that she respected “all artistes’ forms of expression”, but “The Community of Hope” was not an accurate expression of Ward 7.

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