I'm really not sure how St. Vincent got the brand of 'being a good artist that people want to listen to.' I don't think I have ever made it thru one of her entire songs, unless I am sitting at a coffee shop where an empowered potentially-lesbi-wave barista is jamming her female indie jams. Then I am like 'ugh. this music is so involved and complex and unpoppy and unlistenable.' Anyways, p4k gave her a 9.0, but I think it was probably because there is this pressure to keep telling the world that St. Vincent is 'worth listening 2' just because her music sounds like it is 'hard 2 make' and she is a pretty girl. It's sorta like the Joanna Newsom theory. No1 bought/enjoyed that album, but for some reason, there is pressure 2 keep pushing her vibe/agenda.

The review is pretty much as boring as her music, because it is trying 2 convince us that St. Vincent isn't boring. Sort of like the pre-1990s music journalism thing where u talk a lot abt some1's personality 'manifesting itself' in the music, even though all musicians now are just trying to write mp3s that ppl will like. SHE IS SO ANGRY.

Across three albums, the Dallas native has become a master of subverting her picture-perfectness with violence, rage, and mystery-- "I'll make you sorry," sang Clark in creepy lullaby tones on the very first song on her debut album. The juxtaposition is naturally intriguing, a sophisticated twist on finding out that the horror-movie killer was actually the girl next door all along. "Physically, I'm a very demure-looking person," Clark said in a recent Pitchfork interview, "but I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow." On her fine, art-rocking debut, Marry Me, those feelings of hurt, loss, and bloodlust could translate a tad cutesy.

Did u know she plays guitar? She plays it angrily.

Here, Clark's role-playing is grounded in emotions that are as cryptic as they are genuine and affecting. And when her voice can't bear it, her guitar does the screaming.

Do u <3 or h8 St. Vincent?
Is she just a pretty face?
Does she try 2 hard 2 be deep?
Does every1 who 'likes St. Vincent' have a stick up their ass/are they 'trying 2 hard'?
Should Pitchfork make a 'women's league' for rating women on their own scale?

St. Vincent

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St. Vincent is Annie Clark. She plays the guitar and writes deep songs that go on for a really long time.

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