St Vincent goes to the BRIT Awards 2024 at The O2 Arena on March 2, 2024 in London. Jim Dyson/Redferns
During a current meeting with Kerrang!, Grammy- winning musicianSt Vincent, well-known off-stage as Annie Clark, really did not dice words when reviewing what she thinks about the “worst song ever written.”
Her option? John Mayer’s 2003 hit,“Daughters.”
“It’s just so hideously sexist, but it pretends to be a love song,” St Vincent informed the British hefty songs title.“It’s really, really retrograde and really sexist. And I hate it… It’s so deeply misogynistic, which would be fine if you owned that, but it pretends like it’s sweet.”
St Vincent’s review appears to no in on the track’s verses, which encourage daddies to “be good to your daughters” to make sure smoother connections for guys in the future.
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Despite St Vincent’s review, it deserves keeping in mind that “Daughters” was popular at the time of its launch.
The track made Mayer a Grammy Award for track of the year in 2005, vanquishing the similarity Alicia Keys andKanye West It additionally covered Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay graph and gotten toNo 2 on the Adult Contemporary graph.
In the very same meeting,St Vincent talked even more comfortably concerning various other tracks that formed her music trip.
She lovingly discussed Steely Dan’s “Fire in the Hole,” thinking back around lengthy automobile experiences loaded with their songs. She additionally applauded Nick Cave & & the Bad Seeds’ “Into My Arms,” calling it a “perfect love song.” But when it involved Mayer’s “Daughters,” there was no such fond memories or appreciation.
The discovery comes in the middle of the launch ofSt Vincent’s most recent cd, All Born Screaming, which decreased in April.
“It’s about life and death and love,” she informed Billboard inJune “And that’s it.”
“Every record I’ve ever made has been so personal about what’s going on in my life at any given time. I’m queer. I know how to code-switch. The idea of identity as performance has been very clear to me since I was a child… I’m queer, I’m living in multitudes, but this record in particular is not about persona or deconstruction.”
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