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The third track off Grimes' third studio album, Visions. It was named by Pitchfork as the best track of the decade so far.
In an April interview, Boucher explained the song’s true meaning:
The song is about being violently assaulted and it made me crazy for a few years. I got really paranoid walking around at night and started feeling really unsafe. The song is more about empowering myself physically amongst a masculine power, and the hate of feeling powerless, making light of masculine physical power, making it jovial and non-threatening. I took a typically violent cultural situation and made it pop and happy.
Throughout, imagery depicting a ‘dark night’ evokes both the actual event of the assault and her process of coping with the trauma.
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This is the tenth track off of The Decemberists' fifth album, The Hazards of Love. We’re introduced to a most unpleasant character, the murderous and amoral Rake. In the early 18th century, “rake” or “rakehell” was a term for a reckless, roguish, wicked, and often sexually promiscuous young man. Meloy has borrowed the term to indicate his character’s chillingly carefree nature.
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This is the second track off of Chromatics' fourth studio album, Kill For Love.
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This is the third track off of The Walkmen’s seventh studio album, Heaven.
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Your father's second home
That leaves you on your own The Shins – 40 Mark Strasse
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Her father looked to alcohol as an escape to the troubles of the home life, so you could most likely catch him at the local neighborhood bar.
This completes the quick panorama of a broken home offered by this stanza, with the implication that this was one of the reasons why the girl turned to prostitution.
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The bouncy bass leads to “Genesis” open up an enthralling track detailing a darker perspective on falling in love, contrasting the rosy idealism observed in popular love songs with paranoia-ridden commentary on the modern love affair. The song is the second track on Grimes' third album Visions, and is widely regarded as the first notable track despite its continuation off of the previous “Infinite Love Without Fulfillment.”
Genesis was named the 25th best track of 2012 by Pitchfork, while another Visions single “Oblivion” took the number one spot. Its lyrical ambiguity is noted as one of the more intriguing aspects of the track.
That is not a katana. Katanas are curved blades of Japanese origin that are sharpened on only one side. That is a claymore or another type of longsword.
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I think this song is a double-metaphor for a person wandering and never finding a true home and a heart wandering never finding a true love. These lines can be interpreted as Grimes (or a Grimes’s heart) believing that she will never experience a person or place that she loves. The song title “Genesis” kind of hints at this: genesis = new beginning, and with each failed person or place one must embark on a new journey for another person or place.
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whatever sword it is was badass and i enjoy the song and video very much!