St Vincent - New York
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St Vincent - New York
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?"
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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Re: St Vincent - New York
all i can say is i like the song
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Damn, that's a good one!
Brilliant vid, too.: Alex Da Corte, the director, really knocked it out of the park.
Brilliant vid, too.: Alex Da Corte, the director, really knocked it out of the park.
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I heart Annie Clark.
I definitely want my daughter to grow up to be just as quirky and badass.
I definitely want my daughter to grow up to be just as quirky and badass.
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This song was a bit of an earworm for me earlier this month.
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She is one fascinating creature.
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I love her very much.
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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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.
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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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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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.
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.
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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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.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.
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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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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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touche!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.
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That's not edgy, it's embarrassing.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.
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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