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"Just So You Know" - Holly Palmer (I Confess) |
At first I was sure this was just another generic dance track. The straight ahead beat is complemented by an echoey piano that reminds me of what goes on in Alanis Morisette's "Thank U"...in a Bjork-y kinda way. Then the first verse brings on a pleasant, breathy vocal style. Nice, but nothing to get upset about.
But the second verse...hmmm...I can't quite believe I'm saying this....sounds like Rickie Lee Jones doing a spoken word R&B thing:
- somebody over there at the counter in the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind wears your face
on a different day i'm someone else too and we disappear together
we fold up and fly away like paper airplines
we rub each other's creases and
line up each other's angles
and we choose the brightest papers
and we
fly...
Now, maybe Rickie Lee wouldn't have gone into that "crease" stuff, but the fact that somebody from the dance/pop world can put together lyrics like this...well...heck, maybe it doesn't mean anything.
It is cool though.
And, get this: Holly digs Bukowski. Check out this chunk of Interview magazine:
- After stints on the New York lounge circuit and as the back-up singer for David Bowie, Plamer took a break from music and enrolled in an acting class. There, she says, she began to discover how better to put her feelings into words. The experience gave way to her latest album, I Confess (Warner Bros.), an inventive hip-hop-inflected collection of songs about loss and betrayal on which Palmer puts no punches. "If I write about what's going on in my life, there's no need to apologize," she says. "It's like what Charels Bukowski said: 'What matters most is how well you walk through the fire,' because in hell there's going to be lot's of it."
Pretty danged sassy, if you ask me.
I'd love to tell you when I Confess is going to be released, but it appears to be a moving target. Her website'll probably have more info.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
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