Emmy the Great

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Jeffs98119
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Emmy the Great

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The title song on her first album, "First Love," released in England yesterday, makes much mention of Leonard and Hallelujah. Also contains one of the most wonderfully foreboding lines about a relationship: "You were stroking me like a pet/ But you didn't own me yet." The whole album is strange and lovely--so is the young lady herself, from what little I've seen. She's all over Youtube, including the aforementioned song. Check 'er out.

Can't wait for Coachella! Leonard and McCartney--has a nice ring to it.
sebmelmoth2003
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...However on the title track it’s hard to imagine that she’s singing about anyone other than the psychological tormentor of Dylan. Years after the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah, but before its X Factor resurrection, it seems that he played it to her as she fell for him.

There’s a certain kind of man who uses music snobbery as a subtle tool of manipulation. And here, we know he’s not to be trusted because it was “the original Leonard Cohen version” (only the obtuse would favour the cheapo synths of Cohen’s original).

“You stroked me like a pet/ But you didn’t own me yet,” she sings. Plucked notes somehow mimic the righteous needlework of a woman who may yet reserve the right to choose crochet over men in perpetuity...


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 669795.ece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_the_Great
sebmelmoth2003
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32 minutes and 50 seconds into programme.

Not many artists can write folky pop songs about car crashes and boyfriends who watch too many episodes of 24, even fewer can make them sound so quirky, warm and catchy. Emmy The Great plays First Love from the forthcoming album of the same name out this month on her own label Close Harbour

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/looseends
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