St Vincent - New York

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St Vincent - New York

Post by rhythmjones » Thu Aug 31, 2017 6:36 am

This single dropped a few weeks ago but there's a video out now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TPqUvy ... e=youtu.be

Very striking visually.

I've been waiting (very patiently) for the followup to St V's self-titled. I hope we get an album release date soon. I already have my tickets to see her when she comes to KC in November.

What are your thoughts on "New York?"
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Post by panoramic » Thu Aug 31, 2017 7:56 am

all i can say is i like the song
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Post by Maggieo » Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:30 am

Damn, that's a good one! :-*

Brilliant vid, too.: Alex Da Corte, the director, really knocked it out of the park.
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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by Chippertheripper » Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:35 am

I heart Annie Clark.

I definitely want my daughter to grow up to be just as quirky and badass.

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by MechaBulletBill » Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:58 am

This song was a bit of an earworm for me earlier this month.

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by scottT » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:38 pm

She is one fascinating creature.

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Post by Telliot » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:49 pm

I love her very much.
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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by mediocreplayer » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:16 pm

Dissenter here. I have not watched the video but heard the song as soon as it was out and heard the Song Exploder podcast.

I did not like it. It is an uninteresting pop song. I love pop, but this is not a good track imo. To be fair, I never liked her songs, but I appreciated the quirkiness (and the chorus in Cheerleader is pretty glorious). This quirkiness is absent in this song. And the way the opening line is sung makes me cringe for some reason.

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by countertext » Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:36 pm

On paper, I love St Vincent, but when I hear her stuff, it doesn't grab me. I really feel like I should be into it, but her tunes always seem just a little too far off in some indescribable direction. I almost feel like I'm letting her down somehow.

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by epizootics » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:40 pm

This one was a huge disappointment...I listened to both Actor and Strange Mercy on repeat for months when they came out, and started losing interest with the self-titled album. As stated above, the quirks have been rarer and rarer in her records, and that new single almost sounds like, erm, Adele. :unsure:

On the other hand, part of me would like to see her getting into the true mainstream channels, just so she can get the airplay that's necessary to reach the kids. A few of them will love her and listen to her older records and thus have an opportunity to get into weirder music. To a lesser extent, it would be a bit like when Bowie released Let's Dance, it was a nice gateway to his older work for kids in the 80s.

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by mediocreplayer » Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:51 am

epizootics wrote:This one was a huge disappointment...I listened to both Actor and Strange Mercy on repeat for months when they came out, and started losing interest with the self-titled album. As stated above, the quirks have been rarer and rarer in her records, and that new single almost sounds like, erm, Adele.
Not Adele, but she worked on it with Jack Antonoff, who works with Taylor Swift, Lorde, etc. It is an obvious bid to cross over imo. Nothing wrong with that but the song is painfully boring and sentimental in an inauthentic (i know thats a loaded description) way. Again, just my ears.

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Post by Telliot » Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:00 pm

All valid criticisms, and I respect your opinions, but if she were trying to cross over, I don’t think having ‘motherfucker’ in the choruses is the way to do it.
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Post by Maggieo » Sat Sep 02, 2017 1:58 pm

I like pop music and her take on it makes me smile. 8/10. 10/10 for the vid, which is brilliant.
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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by mediocreplayer » Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:31 pm

Telliot wrote:All valid criticisms, and I respect your opinions, but if she were trying to cross over, I don’t think having ‘motherfucker’ in the choruses is the way to do it.
touche!

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Re: St Vincent - New York

Post by shadowplay » Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:37 am

Telliot wrote:All valid criticisms, and I respect your opinions, but if she were trying to cross over, I don’t think having ‘motherfucker’ in the choruses is the way to do it.
That's not edgy, it's embarrassing.

I think she's obviously talented, I just don't like her music much. I generally don't mind her voice but it's kinda put on and horrible in that really bland and formulaic track. It's the sort of thing they stick on a fashion magazine cover disc.

Can't really speak about the video, if generally considered the pop video a waste of time and money and a smoke screen for bad music and I've only seen couple in the last feŵ years that I'd ever want to see all the way through, even once.

In the UK she's got a media profile above her record sales from the looks of things, she's front cover material but sadly it's down celebrity association, not unlike FKA Twigs having a profile moment because of Robert Pattison.

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