http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brandy-clark-the-grammys-country-dark-horse-speaks-out-20150115
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
new single!!!!! it's GREAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9lDtvaGQio
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 22 January 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
I'm into it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 22 January 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
It's got a pulse!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
I've never been to jail / but, hell, I wouldn't put it past me
ha ha, excellent
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 22 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
"The things that turn you on/Are what you want to change" is a good lyric that gains poignancy knowing her sexuality.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
the instrumentation is great
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 22 January 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
Instrumentation reminds me of, like, Prins Thomas.
― jaymc, Monday, 2 May 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/02/479446410/first-listen-brandy-clark-big-day-in-a-small-town
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 3 June 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link
OH MY GOD, "DAUGHTER"
yeah she's taken the leap -- THIS is how I wanted 12 Stories to sound like
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link
i'm finding the songs about individual characters to be more affecting than those about townsfolk collectively ("soap opera"; "big day in a small town").
imo "since you've gone to heaven" bridges that gap effectively, though. could imagine people finding that one maudlin, but it gave me real feelings. hope she plays it when i see her this weekend.
― dc, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
w/out giving away too much from my filed review, I think the album is crisp and confident, if at times still too beholden to a writer's sensibility. Creative writing workshops across the land have so fetishized the detail that they have come to stand for realism—the realism of the inventory, the TSA travel advisory. Good singers don’t need details. Intimations, overheard remarks, aperçues, doggerel even—singers can inflect them. At times the sheer number of details in BDIAST is oppressive. Waffle House? Check. Ill-fitting sequined dress? Check. Jeans needin’ patchin’? Check. She's (still) not enough of a singer to transform. AtT times I'm like, enough already.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
the unnecessary detail that jumped out to me as distracting was the chevy truck in "broke." obvs chevy shows up often in country music as product placement or to establish cred or w/e, but i sorta doubted that was the case here. my mind started running through other adjectives they might have considered using there (pick-up, beat-up); took me outta the song a little bit.
― dc, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
but overall i like most of the songs on here. and "girl next door" still sounds great.
― dc, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
"Daughter" is my jam too – that organ!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
That's gotta be Kacey doing backups on "Daughter" right?
― bunny slopes, Friday, 3 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
the kind of detail i like isn't the writerly stuff but things like, on "homecoming queen", that little aside "or the captain of the football team". it's a bitchy song (and all the better for it) masquerading as clark's trademark empathy but that one little aside is amazing in a "boys don't think you've got off easy, still got my eye on you" way
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link
i heard "broke" live over a year ago and it's as good as it was then. the way the chorus rolls across the phrase "generic...coke"
i like that she can afford arrangements and is good at them but i never saw her plainness as a negative in any way before. i don't think that's fundamentally changed, how awkward does she seem even existing in the "girl next door" video (and you wonder whether anyone involved even for a second contemplated casting her as the character whose voice she was singing in)
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
generally i think it's a record that shows she can scale even greater, more attention-grabbing heights than she did on 12 stories and suffers a bit when it tries to reprise it ("you can come over" is nice enough but like..."what'll keep me out of heaven" is unbeatable already)
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
My review: http://www.spin.com/2016/06/review-brandy-clark-big-day-in-a-small-town/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
this is so good!! "girl next door"!
― Mordy, Friday, 10 June 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
indeed
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
i love "girl next door" but i hate the songwriting/arrangement impulse that caused her to add the "and go right now and don't look back..." tag at the end of the first chorus. such a perfect verse/chorus until that point, and then it's like, "wait, there's another tool in my nashville songwriting toolkit, here it is, boom!" would have been a nice bridge a minute later, but here it's a bridge too soon. and as a result of that, she has to add another bridge after it the next time it comes around, the "the thing that turns you on..." part, which seems tacked-on and too on-the-nose.
a great song that could have been a perfect song with two hours' less work, imo.
(and i'm your nitpicking cuz)
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 10 June 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I didn't mind the filigree so much as the other overstuffed songs. I realize I'm complaining about songs having too many details.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
oh my god, the way "since you've gone to heaven" pans out from family tragedy to social decay is heartbreaking
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 09:22 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/16/brandy-clark-country-music-nashville-interview
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 June 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482329768/brandy-clark-tiny-desk-concert
― Mordy, Monday, 20 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Why Brandy, how tart of you
https://twitter.com/TheBrandyClark/status/771384198720520192
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
best / cleverest line / lyric / turn of phrase on Big Day? let's hear 'em...
― alpine static, Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
saw her live last night, two acoustic guitars and that was it. pretty much perfect. she closed with 'America the Beautiful' segueing into 'Pray to Jesus' which felt like a real message
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 12 November 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
h/t underrated aero:
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/oak-ridge-boys-sing-brandy-clark-hear-pray-to-jesus-w516704
― etc, Monday, 19 February 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
can't get enough of this tune
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 February 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
just started up the new one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
It's good!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
it is!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
“pawn shop” is effortlessly lovely
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
"Apologies" is sounding the best so far.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 6 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
flute AND horns
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Surprised this wasn't linked yet:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/no-one-is-writing-better-country-songs-than-brandy-clark-is
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 March 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
"take a cinder block with you as a souvenir" is a great jabi can do without the randy newman track but most of the rest is great. it's a beautifully produced album, if this doesn't get radio play for her i can't imagine what will.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/brandy-clark-interview-your-life-is-a-record-best-songwriting.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 March 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
“Can we be Strangers” is an astounding song. Structurally put together so well. Great lyrics too. What a chorus.
― Heez, Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
so is "The Past is the Past." Fabulous use of strings generally.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
this is a great record, killer AM radio energy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 15 March 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
Closet thing I can think of is Lee Ann Womack’s last one
― Heez, Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
This is brilliant. No weak points at all. I even like "Bigger Boat".
― Jeff W, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
i draw the line at Bigger Boat. Love everything else though!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
"The Past is the Past" would make such a killer Springsteen song
― Heez, Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
"I wanna be at least almost close to worth your love" is such a devastating line
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
Real damn good. She gets better with each album, seems like. I raved about it at some length over on Rolling Country.
― dow, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link