Paris Is Burning - St. Vincent
Album: Marry Me (2007)
Paris Is Burning starts off with distant-sounding horns and organic guitar-picking, quickly followed by the steady beating of drums, setting the mood for the beautiful and dark lyrics to ramble through. St. Vincent, born Annie Erin Clark, is from my native Texas, and her song-writing skills are superb, transporting you to an anarchy in early twentieth century Paris, France. It makes perfect sense that the lyrics are poetically macabre, considering that she got her stage name from the hospital where Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet, died. To this, she said, "It’s the place where poetry comes to die, that's me."
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