MUSIC

“Sunday” by Sonic Youth is a song from the band’s album “A Thousand Leaves”, released in 1998. I’ve always liked this song and the video, directed by Harmony Korine and starring Macauley Culkin and Rachel Miner, which were married when the video was shot (or they were about to get wed).

“Sunday” is just another great song from the nineties.

This song, “Babies” by Pulp, has been in my drafts folder for months, so I thought it was time to publish the post. I find this song sweet, almost relaxing, even if I don’t find words like “I wanna give you children” particularly romantic, I would run away if somebody sang me that!

Pulp are just another great band from the nineties (even if singer Jarvis Cocker founded it in 1978, when he was fifteen), such an amazing decade for music.

“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is the song of the week because listening to The Smiths is always a good idea.

How beautiful and dreamy is Lana Del Rey’s “Doin’ Time”? It’s a cover of Sublime’s 1997 song and Del Rey (which I usually call “my beloved Lana”) recorded for the documentary “Sublime”, about the Californian band, which the singer deeply loves (I read she listens to their music every day).

Even if this song is about a cheating girlfriend who “spreads her lovin’ all over / And when she gets home there’s none left for me”, the incipit is so sweet. I love the words “Summertime, and the living’s easy”.

Some say that Lana Del Rey is not a great singer because of her small vocal range, I heard about this (one again) yesterday, at the radio. I fell in love with her voice at the first listening of “Video Games” (as many people, I guess) and when I listened to “Born To Die” I thought she was so different, with her sweet, mesmerizing voice, which I prefer to that of most of the female singers with the vocal range of an opera singer. Lana is unique.

 

I chose the song of the week, “Ready For The Floor” by Lissy Trullie, a bit by chance because I was looking for the video by Hot Chip, the band who wrote the song. But the results of the search showed this, first. I clicked and listened to it and I liked it better.

Reading the comments I found out this cover is part of the soundtrack of “Jennifer’s Body”, the 2009 film starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried and directed by Karyn Kusama, which I fairly liked.

“Ready For The Floor” is from Lissy Trullie’s debut EP “Self-Taught Learner”.

This is the original version by Hot Chip (on YouTube).

I don’t know about you, but I find the collaboration between Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber a bit unexpected. But the song is catchy, at the beginning I didn’t even realized who was singing it, when I listened to it, aired by the radio.

So, if you’re not among the more than 37 million of people who already listened to it or if you want to listened to it, again, here’s “I don’t care”, which is probably one of the hits of next summer. I don’t know about you, but every track that is not a tacky Latin song is totally welcome!

I admit I didn’t know We Are Scientists, a Californian indie rock band. I “found” them watching the stories of Julia Restoin Roitfeld, who recently attended on of their gigs. So I listened to them and I particularly liked this song, “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt” from their 2005 album “With Love And Squalor”.

One of the news of the week, when it comes to fashion and celebrities, is that Keira Knightly is expecting her second child. She arrived in Paris, together with her husband James Righton, to attend Chanel’s party and resort 2020 fashion show, making her baby bump debut.

So, what’s Knightley’s pregnancy got to do with this post? Nothing, but I was thinking about the song of the week and James Righton’s band, Klaxons, came to my mind so I decided to share an old song from them, “Golden Skans”. Such a good song! I can’t believe it’s from ten years ago!

The song of the week is “The Windmills of Your Mind” by Petula Clark, which is a cover of a 1968 song originally sung by Michel Legrand (and written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). I chose this song because, as you can see, Saint Laurent released a short film directed by Bret Easton Ellis, titled “The Arrangement” and starring Hopper Penn, Tes Linnenkoper, and Dakota Lindvall (the son of super model Angela Lindvall).

“The Arrangement” looks like the tormented menage à trois of young and stylish people, set in a beautiful mansion (probably in Los Angeles).

“The Windmills of Your Mind” is part of the soundtrack of “The Thomas Crown Affair”, a 1968 film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. The song won an Oscar for best original song and it’s been sung by many artists, both in English and French (with the title “Le moulins de mon coeur”). Eva Mendes also performed this track for the commercial of Angel by Thierry Mugler, when she was the face of the fragrance.

Petula Clark’s 1969 version was also featured in the soundtrack of “Killing Them Softly”, a 2012 film starring Brad Pitt and directed by Andrew Dominik.

I don’t know about you, but I love when fashion teams up with writers, directors, artists. The result is always interesting and often sophisticated.

I don’t know how I missed this song, “Chlorine” by twenty one pilots, for so long. I Shazamed it yesterday, when it was aired by one of my favorite radios so here it is, the song of the week.