Annie Clark (St. Vincent)
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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This is Toko Yasuda, who plays in my live band. I wanted her to pretend like she was an alien describing how to seduce someone, but in Japanese.
Because a couple of reasons. One, a totally self-serving one, which is that I love Japan and I want to be big in Japan so that I can go there all the time. I mean, I'm not above strategy.
It's more or less kind of like a thesis. It's more or less, it contains all the characters that you meet on the album. It's... I thought of it like a graduate thesis or something.
Yeah.
Um, I would say it's an exploration of power and the rosy sides of power, you know, and, and also the really the grim sides. I mean, the kinds of things that can have a total hold over you, be it, you know, drugs or sex or, um, Is it telling that those are the only two things I can think of? I know there's a third thing.
It was a wild three years. Yeah, a lot of life happened in those three years, for sure.
I love Pilates.
Yeah. I just, I hit a point where I just needed everything but the most vital things for creativity to just go away.
Well, certainly off balance, yeah. Certainly off balance. I just needed to do sort of a radical reorganizing of my life in order to fulfill. This sounds really like a Tolkien thing or something, but in order to fulfill my destiny as a creative person, I needed to just clear a path.
You know, otherwise just depression would take its jaws and just swallow me completely.
That's what would happen. Yeah.
I mean, well, one, I mean, talking about anxiety and depression, it seems like It doesn't seem like anything that's stigmatized to me anymore because all of my friends have dealt with it over their entire lives. So I've been a really anxious person since I was a kid.
And more or less, I think that's helped me because I sought ways to cope with it creatively and felt safe in being able to make something.
Yeah.
You know what? I don't want to overstate it because, um, because truly as it pertains to like drugs, I'm kind of a Pollyanna. I never really, like I, I still like, I've only seen cocaine like three times in my life, which is so stupid. Like you, you would think that it would just be, you know, be lying on people's naked bodies at parties, but that's just like not the vibe. So, um,
So I don't want to overstate it, but I was in a period of my life where I was working so much that I, and I didn't know how to get a hold of my life in any meaningful sort of centering kind of way. Um, and yeah, I was certainly relying on more pills than I should have been taking to deal with anxiety and depression. But I'm not anti-anti-depressant by any means or anything.
Those kind of things have really helped me at certain times.
Um, I will say there, there are definitely guitar moments on this album. It's not, it's not without guitar, but it's a funny, it's a funny thing. Um, the guitar, I've been playing it so long. I've been playing it for over 20 years. Um, which is weird cause I'm 25. So, um, no, I've been playing it for over 20 years. So it's so much a part of my person, you know? Um,
But there's a certain amount of guitar playing that is about pride that isn't about the song.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, it just didn't, that's not the way that I want it. That's not the way that I want to hear guitar. And it's not the way that I want to present it in my music.
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