Of Miles Rausch

Day 19: When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass

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From Fevers and Mir­rors (2000)

Bright Eyes enjoys, with gusto, adding in non-musical sound to their songs. Fevers and Lifted both began with long, long, long intros, seem­ingly of an unre­lated nature. Both to have music fade in behind the sound, and finally the song takes place. While we don’t get a multi-minute children’s book nar­ra­tion, or a con­ver­sa­tion between unknown indi­vid­u­als, we get tv sets, bangs, clanks, and pretty low qual­ity music in gen­eral. Conor and a piano, and we won­der, is he in his house? Is he say­ing some­thing about the state of music? Is this grand, or just lazy?

Notable lyric: But no mat­ter what I would do in an attempt to replace / All these pills that I take, try­ing to bal­ance my brain / See the curi­ous girl with that look on her face / So sur­prised she stares out from her dis­play case

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