It’s a burbling stomp about being emotionally and literally destroyed, about how his heart has been ripped from his chest and his floor is covered in blood. (It’s worth noting that this man has a well-documen
“Dealer” begins with Kane pleading for his whereabouts to be kept secret over a sultry groove, Lana enters the picture for a near-rapped pre-chorus before totally stealing the show with a startling vocal performance in the chorus. She sounds near-hysterical and emotionally exhausted – ...
As of this writing, the Wikipedia history of the Seattle group Carissa's Wierd begins with a sentence about its final show in November 2003. There's nothing about how the band formed, where or how they recorded, or when they tour; instead the entry rounds up the members' current p...
Most artists would be exhausted after the one-two punch ofgood kid, m.A.A.d CityandTo Pimp a Butterfly, but Kung-Fu Kenny returned roaring, more trunk-rattling than ever. “DNA,” the first proper track offDAMN., sports some of Lamar’s grizzliest bars this side of the “Control”...
There’s also a whole backstory about the childhood slights that led her to develop these powers to manipulate for good. This leads to one of the greatest lines in all of Swift-dom: “I swear, I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care.” Was she being tongue-in-cheek with ...
There’s also a whole backstory about the childhood slights that led her to develop these powers to manipulate for good. This leads to one of the greatest lines in all of Swift-dom: “I swear, I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care.” Was she being tongue-in-cheek with ...
The Beloved about Her Lover: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade,
about being so in love with her partner that she forgets to eat and sleep, building to the penultimate line they all sing, “I wanna be emaciated” — a declaration that the relationship in question may not have been perfect, but it’s better than the alternative. And what about the ...
I talked about how I feel I healed a big trauma-wound—an abandonment wound from the time when I was only 1 and 1/2 when I was hospitalized for a week. I couldn’t remember it of course but the emotional pain had been dormant within me and in my body in the form of an energy ...
Even on paper, the song is emotionally loaded: a plea for protection to a man the narrator has come to trust. In emotional terms, Billie Holiday’s 1948 version feels optimistic, guardedly bright; Simone’s feels concentrated and gravely serious, almost private, even as she adds trills and ...