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COMPLETE - The Indie/Alt Pop/Not-quite-'Mainstream'-but-still-accessible Girls 2017 Rate!!1
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Morning! I hate you ALL.
Slip my hand from your hand
Leave you dancin' with a ghost
Slip my hand from your hand
Leave you dancin' with a ghost
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
36. St Vincent - Slow Disco
Average: 7.84
High: 10 x 15 (@Trouble in Paradise @JapaneseJesus @Petty Mayonnaise @Jwentz @Remorque @soratami @NecessaryVoodoo @JamesJupiter @Oleander @Rem @Heaven on Earth @RUNAWAY @beyoncésweave @Slice of Life
Low: 3 x 1 (@Lindsay Lohan *burns copy of The Parent Trap*)
My score: 10
10 voters in: 61
20 voters in: 58
30 voters in: 56
40 voters in: 52
50 voters in: 45
60 voters in: 39
For the record, had this song ended up at #61 in the final leaderboard I would've cancelled the fucking rate and y'all can catch the motherfucking tea on THAT. In fact, I Was Gonna Cancel.mp3 until the very last minute when this got a barrage of 10s, which saw it rocket all the way into the top 40 - because guess what? Talent always wins. I understand the mixed response to Smoking Section due to the heaviness of the lyrics, but this is absolutely stunning and each of those fifteen 10s was deserved.
Before I gush over this stunnin’ track, I'm gonna rant about Dancing With A Ghost; She wasted possibly the best track title on forty seconds of white noise. She thought she’d be cute by separating said white noise from one of the best ballads she’s ever put her name to, creating chaos in the tracklisting and making my job as a rate host slightly more difficult. Slow Disco deserved 40 extra seconds, WE deserved 40 extra seconds of Slow Disco. But what’s done is done, thanks a lot Annie, I hope you find peace.
Regardless, I appreciate the way Dancing With A Ghost flows into this track so seamlessly, lending itself to the lush and haunting vocoder/string section production. I love Annie's voice pointblank period, so I would've loved this track just as much if it was acoustic to the point of Happy Birthday, Johnny. If you're loving that concept, check out the beautiful studio session she recorded of the song at the end of the post. Pitching vocals can go either way for me, but the 'don't it beat a slow dance to death?' refrain is one of my favourite moments of the album, as well as one of the most affecting.
Annie gave some insight to the song in her track-by-track interview with a certain poncey US-based online music publication:
The singer-songwriter Joy Williams, formerly of the folk duo Civil Wars, is credited as a co-writer on “Slow Disco.” What’s the story there?
Years ago I was going to write a song for one of Joy’s solo albums and I had this melody saved up in my iPhone. I had the line “I’m so glad I came but I can’t wait to leave,” and we kicked things around in a room for a little bit. We didn’t finish it, and she didn’t end up using it, but that line had really stuck with me—it’s about how the life you’re actually living and the life that you should be living are running parallel, and how one haunts the other. So I gutted the song and rewrote all the words. But I also wanted to be respectful of Joy’s contribution to the start of the it.
happiestgirl (4) missed the mark yet again: 'I kept expecting this to pick up.' It’s a song about death and depression, did you expect a beat drop or something?
Screw slow dancing, I might just beat mokitsu (5) to death the good ol’ fashion way for giving this A FIVE: ‘A pretty minimal ballad, but it's not very affecting or memorable.’ The ass-whoopin’ I wanna give you would be pretty memorable, sis!
Bleedingheart80 (6): 'Again, not a fan of the slow songs.' Again, you need to check yourself.
Enjoy (7), conversely, loves slow songs a little too much...until the outro: I loved the parts when she sings and it is very much like "The Party" but the outro is a bit boner killer. Still a very pretty song before that grand final.
sfmartin (7) narrowly escapes an ass-whoopin' by saying something nice about the outro: I find this quite dull for the most part. The high pitched vocals towards the end are quite lovely.
Michael17 (8) rightfully calls it 'very soft and pretty. Sounds like it could be played in a grand ballroom. I find it just a bit too stern and maudlin, though. I can appreciate it for the art, but not something I’m going to return to.'
Fantasy (9) was lost for words...literally: This is gorgeous, those strings...
Bangers&Bops (9) disco dances into my heart by hailing it 'a wistful, heavyhearted goodbye of sorts that itself sways like a slow dance. Her voice cracks and breaks as she sings, "slip my hand from your hand / leave you dancing with a ghost," in a voice so delicate and haunting it sounds like she might break into tears.'
Category is...perfect taste, courtesy of Trouble in Paradise (10): The first time I listened to this song I was absolutely floored. The lyrics are devastating and Annie’s delivery is gut wrenching. Such a perfect song.
Slice of Life's (10) cherry AND his peaches were ruined, FUCK! 'Ddddddddddddddddddddd this is literally my first St. Vincent album so please excuse my ignorance. Are all of her ballads this gorgeous??? I'm shaken.' Honey, you’ve got a big storm coming....
Slip my hand from your hand
Leave you dancin' with a ghost
Slip my hand from your hand
Leave you dancin' with a ghost
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
(Don't it beat a slow dance to death?)
36. St Vincent - Slow Disco
Average: 7.84
High: 10 x 15 (@Trouble in Paradise @JapaneseJesus @Petty Mayonnaise @Jwentz @Remorque @soratami @NecessaryVoodoo @JamesJupiter @Oleander @Rem @Heaven on Earth @RUNAWAY @beyoncésweave @Slice of Life
Low: 3 x 1 (@Lindsay Lohan *burns copy of The Parent Trap*)
My score: 10
10 voters in: 61
20 voters in: 58
30 voters in: 56
40 voters in: 52
50 voters in: 45
60 voters in: 39
For the record, had this song ended up at #61 in the final leaderboard I would've cancelled the fucking rate and y'all can catch the motherfucking tea on THAT. In fact, I Was Gonna Cancel.mp3 until the very last minute when this got a barrage of 10s, which saw it rocket all the way into the top 40 - because guess what? Talent always wins. I understand the mixed response to Smoking Section due to the heaviness of the lyrics, but this is absolutely stunning and each of those fifteen 10s was deserved.
Before I gush over this stunnin’ track, I'm gonna rant about Dancing With A Ghost; She wasted possibly the best track title on forty seconds of white noise. She thought she’d be cute by separating said white noise from one of the best ballads she’s ever put her name to, creating chaos in the tracklisting and making my job as a rate host slightly more difficult. Slow Disco deserved 40 extra seconds, WE deserved 40 extra seconds of Slow Disco. But what’s done is done, thanks a lot Annie, I hope you find peace.
Regardless, I appreciate the way Dancing With A Ghost flows into this track so seamlessly, lending itself to the lush and haunting vocoder/string section production. I love Annie's voice pointblank period, so I would've loved this track just as much if it was acoustic to the point of Happy Birthday, Johnny. If you're loving that concept, check out the beautiful studio session she recorded of the song at the end of the post. Pitching vocals can go either way for me, but the 'don't it beat a slow dance to death?' refrain is one of my favourite moments of the album, as well as one of the most affecting.
Annie gave some insight to the song in her track-by-track interview with a certain poncey US-based online music publication:
The singer-songwriter Joy Williams, formerly of the folk duo Civil Wars, is credited as a co-writer on “Slow Disco.” What’s the story there?
Years ago I was going to write a song for one of Joy’s solo albums and I had this melody saved up in my iPhone. I had the line “I’m so glad I came but I can’t wait to leave,” and we kicked things around in a room for a little bit. We didn’t finish it, and she didn’t end up using it, but that line had really stuck with me—it’s about how the life you’re actually living and the life that you should be living are running parallel, and how one haunts the other. So I gutted the song and rewrote all the words. But I also wanted to be respectful of Joy’s contribution to the start of the it.
happiestgirl (4) missed the mark yet again: 'I kept expecting this to pick up.' It’s a song about death and depression, did you expect a beat drop or something?
Screw slow dancing, I might just beat mokitsu (5) to death the good ol’ fashion way for giving this A FIVE: ‘A pretty minimal ballad, but it's not very affecting or memorable.’ The ass-whoopin’ I wanna give you would be pretty memorable, sis!
Bleedingheart80 (6): 'Again, not a fan of the slow songs.' Again, you need to check yourself.
Enjoy (7), conversely, loves slow songs a little too much...until the outro: I loved the parts when she sings and it is very much like "The Party" but the outro is a bit boner killer. Still a very pretty song before that grand final.
sfmartin (7) narrowly escapes an ass-whoopin' by saying something nice about the outro: I find this quite dull for the most part. The high pitched vocals towards the end are quite lovely.
Michael17 (8) rightfully calls it 'very soft and pretty. Sounds like it could be played in a grand ballroom. I find it just a bit too stern and maudlin, though. I can appreciate it for the art, but not something I’m going to return to.'
Fantasy (9) was lost for words...literally: This is gorgeous, those strings...
Bangers&Bops (9) disco dances into my heart by hailing it 'a wistful, heavyhearted goodbye of sorts that itself sways like a slow dance. Her voice cracks and breaks as she sings, "slip my hand from your hand / leave you dancing with a ghost," in a voice so delicate and haunting it sounds like she might break into tears.'
Category is...perfect taste, courtesy of Trouble in Paradise (10): The first time I listened to this song I was absolutely floored. The lyrics are devastating and Annie’s delivery is gut wrenching. Such a perfect song.
Slice of Life's (10) cherry AND his peaches were ruined, FUCK! 'Ddddddddddddddddddddd this is literally my first St. Vincent album so please excuse my ignorance. Are all of her ballads this gorgeous??? I'm shaken.' Honey, you’ve got a big storm coming....
'I'm so glad I came but I cannot wait to leave' is a stellar lyric, perfectly encapsulating that feeling of being proud of yourself for actively going out of your comfort zone but still being aware that your deep feelings cannot and should not be erased at a whim. And 'Slow Disco' is the kind of oxymoron that describes the whole album to a T.
Basically, I don't know what I was thinking when I didn't hand this its deserved 10.
And to add salt to the wound, the celestial live rendition at Jimmy Fallon seems to have disappeared from the internet altogether and in solar year 2017 that doesn't make me happy.
Basically, I don't know what I was thinking when I didn't hand this its deserved 10.
And to add salt to the wound, the celestial live rendition at Jimmy Fallon seems to have disappeared from the internet altogether and in solar year 2017 that doesn't make me happy.
Any/All
Seriously cancel the rate, the horror has gone way past the point of no return. I don't even want to think about this amazing album barely scraping the top 20, and yet that's what's gonna happen. And fuck I adore Melodrama, but this is up there when it comes to the level of quality, often even better, and it DESERVES placements way higher than this fuckery.
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Former member 21294
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Former member 21294
Best finest surgeon, come cut me open.
I am never sure that it is "best finest" or "best to find a" or "best friend is" ddd.
Annie herself clarified she lifted the chorus from a page of Marilyn Monroe's own diary, in which she'd written:
Aww fuck. I was really enchanted by discovering the MUNA album, and I may have overrated it compared to Masseduction because I've spent more time with St. Vincent and that led me to be more critical. Can't fuck with Melodrama so I don't mind most of what's left in the top 20, but I do wish I'd been slightly harsher on MUNA and slightly nicer to Annie.
Slow Disco is my second least-favorite off the St. Vinny record. Still a solid 8, though. I think it's the placement of the song at the end, and it's depressing, but not in the chill-inducing Strange Mercy kind of way. A rightful cut (if the MUNA tumblr-pop-by-numbers songs weren't still in).
Slow Disco? Right in front of my salad??
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Lana being able to turn even a hip hop beat into an ASMR video is truly an impressive talent.
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Wouldn't it be funny if HAIM beat off the rest of Masseduction.
Wouldn't it be funny if HAIM beat off the rest of Masseduction.
Burning that should have happened a long time ago.
Wouldn't it be funny if HAIM beat off the rest of Masseduction.
