Couple of pages, one from about this time last year and two from last week-ish.
Page 1. 17 Nov 2022 - Flower on Head Bunny.
Soft Sweet Naive Tender Bunny.
She's a Rider - Caroline Polachek "Bunny is a Rider"
of Montreal "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider"
Listening on OGION (my computer, all my towers have been named after famous fictional wizards, which I kinda didn't realise until I got this new one last year and was like I gotta name it!)
Page 2. 06 Dec 2023 - Billions and Billionaires.
I've been thinking about Caroline Polachek's Desire I Want to Turn Into You (DIWTTIY) a LOT, I can tell because Kits has started calling her "Caro Polo" in a funny singsong voice that implies we're talking about the -thing- again. I will try to write all the loosely assembled thoughts down a in a continue reading jump. Maybe. I dunno.
Erstwhile indie darling, goose screamer, k*yne scooper and acclaimed quirked-up vocalist Caro Polo has stopped explaining, intellectualising, labeling, making sense! I'm sure there's theory or a name for this idea or reoccurring expression(ism) ;) because of course there's always a framework, context and philosophy that one must know of and employ effectively to place their work in the culture - but good pop music doesn't make sense, or have a basis in theory, and it will not explain itself!
I think PONY by Ginuwine is the most clear example, to mind, like you get it... you get what he's on about, the vibe could not be more legible, tbh, but the song lyrics themselves are not in clear support of the thesis, nor is the odd farting bass, but nonetheless you vibe!
It’s giving C'mon stop trying to hit me and hit me. Morpheus in the Matrix, who was of course shitting on the mother toilet when he said that.
I dunno for sure, really the intentionality of it or her work generally, and it is beside the point — to be encoded or decoded merely makes it a signal, not a sign, not a message, not a meaning. Is this all in there or are you projecting? It doesn't matter so much, as it is a successful attempt at unfocussing that third mythic eye*, feeling that intangible gestalt enough that she's tuning into the desperate leitmotifs of the current moment and amplifying/refracting them through this soaring album.
OSTENSION. DéTOURNEMENT. RECUPERATION.
Par Avion
Re: The Billion____s and The Billionaires
Page 3. 06 Dec 2023 - Année du Lapin (2023) Year of Bunny
Certified Top 0.1% fan of Caroline Polachek in 2023
Bunny is Hustle Culture?
Bunny is the girls on Epst*in's Private Island? This has legs but is grim and requires more thoughtful elaboration than the general rambling I’m currently on.
Is DIWTTIY about the weird, real and unreal relationship we all have with billionaires because of their inescapable influence over lives?
Is that what the Grimes feat. is about? Is that why Caro Polo did the Harambe song? I've got a Hyper-Chain-Link-Fence of Theories.
That Trace Dominguez video - You Love Billionaires?
Why Bunny?
and What makes her a Rider?
*Probbo I know!
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Any ways here's my Tally Tunes playlist for 2023.