The lyrics makes more sense when you understand that the song is about being a shut-in. She stepped into the outside world and now finds herself backing away from the outside world and staying inside the safe comfort of her home more and more.....like a birth in reverse.
+Roland Baldwin Yea but she plays a cool little extended version of it live, I only just noticed that its shorter on the official audio. Its too bad cuz the little extra parts she plays at the end are sick
Anna Clark is not a shredder or technical guitar player of the likes of John Petrucci of Dream Theater. She is an ideasmith, who coaxes a wide diversity of tones from her guitars and creative, minimalist riffs.
@@apolloptx He probably means an interlude; either the one at 1:02, 2:02, or 2:33 (last one being the end of the song.) But yeah, those aren't "solos" in the typical old fashioned sense.
Possibly; but you are mistaking random atonal sound for music. It ain't. It's noise. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Artists like to push the env'lope.
justin stark But she's very good at noise, and good noise ain't easy. And try telling Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix (not to mention John Cage) that noise isn't music. To quote our Slovak friend below: Hudobné video na dnešný deň!
justin stark your comments about 'atonal noise' not 'being music' immediately discredit you as any kind of insightful voice as to what 'defines' music.
st Vincent is oddly enticing she's a mixed of a well groomed secretary, and that classmate who always sits alone but don't mind if you wanna join them, and Prince. In all, she's just awesome, the one and only. and soooooo pretty!!! i just love her
Funny thing is that a day or two ago I said to myself : how awesome would it be if Birth In Reverse had a music video to accompany those beautiful riffs - and today there it is!! Couldn't be more happy with the outcome 👏 Can't wait to see Annie live in the summer 👌💗
I came here because the album was at the top of a Guardian list I came to from La Roux. I was interested and her wiki page seemed interesting so I came here and OH MY GOD THE FIRST SECOND WAS AMAZING I COULDN'T LISTEN ONE MINUTE WITHOUT FREAKING OUT how is this not monumental.
Just saw St. Vincent live and she is sick on guitar. She killed it. The lights were everywhere and guitar was blaring. It was amazing. Best show of the weekend after The Flaming Lips.
This is some of the best guitar-playing in modern rock. And her vocal phrasing is delicious. The way she breaks that middle line up reminds me of Tori Amos's and David Byrne's love-child. (With cos- mic etern- ity paaaarty line)
Y’all ever had that song that you thought sounded horrible when you first heard and just randomly started humming it and liking it the next day ?? This is an example for me
St. Vincent is like the David Bowie of our generation. Well, David Bowie is still the David Bowie of our generation. But St. Vincent is so fucking great. With this album, it really feels like she's doing exactly what she wants to be doing and what she is supposed to be doing, and I cannot wait to see where she goes from here.
There are certain similar aspects, but sadly Annie's very far from 10 perfect LPs in 10 years PLUS the carreer-boosting engagements of other A-List names, like Bowie did with Lou Reed + Iggy Pop PLUS becoming a responsible parent despite the fame craze.
@@szrnkabela Well, obviously all of those things go without saying, I think the point has much more to do with the similarities and parallels, in regards to the artistry itself, artistic choices, concepts etc.. both musically and visually, rather than having anything to do with career and/or artistic accomplishments. And of course, regarding both David and Annie, or any other artist for that matter, what a "perfect 10" album is, is completely subjective, as always. Anyway, just my two cents.. Peace.. DC
You and everything you do is sooo perfect. ♥ I loved seeing you live, it was one of the best experiences, the music festival was really awful and lame, but your performance was incredible, thank you so much Annie for putting so much passion and effort to everything you do, lots of love. ♥
Annie Clark is on a whole new level of music-making, I fear one day she will disappear into her music, her body slowly turned into soundwaves leaving nothing but a guitar that will create feedback with anything in a twenty meter radius. Scientist will later find encoded messages in the feedback from Annie telling us to join her in whichever dimension she is now.
To know that she's gay makes me so happy because I am gay too and she gives me so much inspiration to focus on what I am passionate about in my life. Love you Annie💖😘
Excellent video! Great song, and of course, the whole album is phenomenal. Congratulations on the Grammy nomination. As far as I'm concerned, 'St' Vincent' was the best album of the year!
i remember seeing her live in 2014, i didn't know one single song from her, i was there because the next in playing was damon albarn, but damn i fell in love with this girl and her music, she's a genius
Dorian Stretton Of course I would think that. Byrne makes a point of working with whomever is considered to be avant garde at that moment in time. This is the first time I have heard her work, and I have to say that I am not impressed. Not repulsed, yet left with a field of ambivalence that just won't quit. Her voice was acceptable, the lyrics not totally stupid, but her guitar work was idiotic in the extreme. Like I said, first exposure to her work. If there are other songs where she shreds and makes me look like an amateur, well, I am just not willing to find them.
St. Vincent is The Allnatt Diamond resting on a bed of the most rarefied rubies in a bowl of solid platinum filled with the most richly infused, night-crawlers' delight, topsoil. Splendiferously brilliant directing/cinematography/editing.....Chaplin/Fellini/Kubrick en masse. I, if a comet does not hit, shall watch this many times, over and over and each shall be as if were the first. Kudos .
Why do I see this song apart of memories of a high school prom. I see the video and all the camaraderie of moments of a school prom, to the arrival and the scene of the prom. That's my video vision for this song, love the song.
I like it when she rocks out. And this material in concert was astonishing. I've seen videos of her performances of her "chamber rock" material, and despite its musical sophistication and ambitions, it seems fey and tentative to me--quirky and fledgling. On stage with this stuff she's ferocious and genuinely strange. She knows what she's doing, and I'm looking forward to what's next.
Seriously this. I had never heard of her until last week and then I got bumped into an alternate universe where Annie is the queen. She is something else.
Me too, after years of hearing about St Vincent I finally started checking out Annie's music last year around March. Wish I had gone there earlier, but have happily been listening since, old and new. Have seen her in concert and bought the guitar. Not a crazed fan, bought the guitar because it is great and I have been a shitty guitar player for 30 years. I have played shitty guitar on over 20 great guitars over that time and Annie's remains the one I am happiest to play like crap on. Beating my '75 LP Goldtop, 1991 PRS, 1978 Ibanez PF 300, '67 Fire Engine Red Gretch Monkees, 2009 Airline Map. But definitely not my all Maple 1968 Guild Starfire III. I guess I just wanted to boast about my old guitar collection, but Annie's Ernie Ball rocks...seriously...other than my '68 Guild it is the best and so is her music.
Ill still never forgive my mom for not letting us see her in concert years ago simply because she thought her music was “weird.” How can you be so disinterested in your kid
don't care what anyone says this video is freakin awesome and I love it just as much as her Digital video! it is supposed to look and sound exactly the way it does!
weird. weird vocals. weird lyrics. weird video. weird guitar.
love it.
Bo Dagutt same
the guitars are the weirdest part, but in a good way lol
I liked it when she also did weird clothes/hair.. It just fit. The sexualizable outfit choices seem to make fun of human lust. 🎉 What an artist!
Not that Anne isn't a Betty, I just don't know if that is the point or an illustration of the problem. 🎉
she's a hero.
theneedledrop Sainthony Vinctano
The music's not bad either. The chorus riff on this is almost as bloody caustic as Big Black, albeit a lot more beautiful.
DarrenBonJovi so tru abt Big Black
theneedledrop masseduction a 6 wow.
You just lost your opinion privileges.
Decent 7 out of 10 for that comment.
I love how her chords and phrasing convey anxiety/emotions so well!
"Take out the garbage, masturbate"
Finally someone who shares my passions!
Lol
I know right?
*STOP READING MY MIND, GIRL*
I did a double take first time I heard that line.
Taking out the garbage is one of your passions?
Olas you just made something funny into something entirely unfunny
Am I the only one who thinks she's like Prince? It's a major compliment. Her and her music are just that damn cool.
Yeah i get a prince vibes of her too...i wonder if prince knew of her...or did they ever meet....im sure prince would have loved her music
Prince and Bowie are pape like her biggest influences so yeah that makes sense.
St. Vincent is amazing! Just saw her in concert a few nights ago and she kicked ass!
+camryn lloyd You lucky thing!
+camryn lloyd Saw her recently too, she closed a festival I was at. She was so strange and I loved it!!
Some people were at Greenman by the seems of things
sup sanj that's where I saw her
EXACTLY the kind of video I wanted to come from this song/album.
Annie killed it this year.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite song by her, but I think this is currently in the top spot, close second being her new single.
The lyrics makes more sense when you understand that the song is about being a shut-in. She stepped into the outside world and now finds herself backing away from the outside world and staying inside the safe comfort of her home more and more.....like a birth in reverse.
Oh... so it wasn't about vore
GearandaltheFirst _Gtfo_
The guitar in the chorus sounds to me like it resembles unforgiving tension. AT least that's the best I can describe it in a short YT comment.
I thought it was about her witnessing someone die or something
@@shadowgangfilms9363 It kind of is; it's a person's social life dying. Too scared to even start.
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM / CONGRATS ST. VINCENT
That guitar solo though!! wow!
+Roland Baldwin Yea but she plays a cool little extended version of it live, I only just noticed that its shorter on the official audio. Its too bad cuz the little extra parts she plays at the end are sick
Adam Ellison what solo??? Obviously you have never listened to real music
Anna Clark is not a shredder or technical guitar player of the likes of John Petrucci of Dream Theater. She is an ideasmith, who coaxes a wide diversity of tones from her guitars and creative, minimalist riffs.
There is no guitar solo in this song... do you know what a solo is?
@@apolloptx He probably means an interlude; either the one at 1:02, 2:02, or 2:33 (last one being the end of the song.) But yeah, those aren't "solos" in the typical old fashioned sense.
The ending guitar riff to this song blows me away every time.
Annie Clark....Original and talented. Finally, real screaming guitar in pop music. I LOVE IT.
Possibly; but you are mistaking random atonal sound for music. It ain't. It's noise.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Artists like to push the env'lope.
justin stark But she's very good at noise, and good noise ain't easy. And try telling Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix (not to mention John Cage) that noise isn't music. To quote our Slovak friend below: Hudobné video na dnešný deň!
justin stark your comments about 'atonal noise' not 'being music' immediately discredit you as any kind of insightful voice as to what 'defines' music.
The ending riff is filmed REALLY cool. eyegasmic + eargasmic. love it
st Vincent is oddly enticing
she's a mixed of a well groomed secretary, and that classmate who always sits alone but don't mind if you wanna join them, and Prince. In all, she's just awesome, the one and only. and soooooo pretty!!! i just love her
I'm in love. Call if things don't work out with Cara.
but they're engaged... 🙍
it didn't work out
she could be sexually fluid with a rock, for all I care. Just keep shredding and creating original music!
didn't work out with Cara. I think sh'es with Kristen Steart now tho XD
Evelyn Gottig currently single
UPDATE THE DESCRIPTION SHE WON THE ALBUM AWARD YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS SLAY ME QUEEN
IKRRRRRRRRRRRRR SLAYYYYYYYYY ME BAE-QUEWEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Calm down there folks no yelling in the TH-cam library of awesome tracks
The best musical artist of the year.
Ever since I discovered her music I've been hooked
Can't believe, that i ever thought this music is strange. Today I'am enjoy it just like my grandfather listening to xmas carols
I don't know why but this video made me feel like I was in the 90's again. But like a more futuristic 90's. Not a bad feeling at all.
+Micah Buzan do y know of a drug that makes you feel this way mate ?
+Micah Buzan Totally agree. Takes you away from the mundane BS.
+Micah Buzan Not hard to imagine, I can see some things Cobain might have done in this video.
Hmm, I know what Micah means - as an old dude, it puts me in mind of That Petrol Emotion.
How? The grids, the dual colored lighting, the pastel, this screams 2010's millennial minimalism.
I never thought someone could be so attractive while playing a guitar but here we are. we Stan talent
Damn, the bass is noooice!
God I wish so hard that every song on this album could have a video. LOVE HER!!! So excited for all these music videos coming out!
Funny thing is that a day or two ago I said to myself : how awesome would it be if Birth In Reverse had a music video to accompany those beautiful riffs - and today there it is!! Couldn't be more happy with the outcome 👏 Can't wait to see Annie live in the summer 👌💗
I came here because the album was at the top of a Guardian list I came to from La Roux. I was interested and her wiki page seemed interesting so I came here and OH MY GOD THE FIRST SECOND WAS AMAZING I COULDN'T LISTEN ONE MINUTE WITHOUT FREAKING OUT how is this not monumental.
the apotheosis of st vincent has been incredible
Just saw St. Vincent live and she is sick on guitar. She killed it. The lights were everywhere and guitar was blaring. It was amazing. Best show of the weekend after The Flaming Lips.
one of the smartest artists out there
This is some of the best guitar-playing in modern rock. And her vocal phrasing is delicious. The way she breaks that middle line up reminds me of Tori Amos's and David Byrne's love-child.
(With cos-
mic etern-
ity paaaarty line)
Musical genius, great song
Fantastic video too
This is some 2k15 aesthetic and I love it
exactly :)
Then should I not watch it in 2017?
a bottle of milk apparently not
Wow! Another brilliant millenial observation complete with a redundant and meaningless abbreviation.
Y’all ever had that song that you thought sounded horrible when you first heard and just randomly started humming it and liking it the next day ?? This is an example for me
I'm very happy I've rediscovered this person after all this time!!!
This music floats around like magic! :)
this video is so cool!! i love all the inverted colors and galaxy stuff
LITERALLY BIRTHED IN REVERSE JUST NOW
:D
YOU WOULD, CATE. YOU WOULD.
Jimena Gamio YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS MY COMMENT'S NUMBER TWO
Cate Cowan I don't get it...😅😅
Quintessential ROCK STAR, St. Vincent's got it all. Worship this goddess.
Best song on the album. It deserved this beautiful video. Can't wait to see you in Lollapalooza Brasil!
Love the crunchy tone of the guitar in her songs.
St. Vincent is like the David Bowie of our generation. Well, David Bowie is still the David Bowie of our generation. But St. Vincent is so fucking great. With this album, it really feels like she's doing exactly what she wants to be doing and what she is supposed to be doing, and I cannot wait to see where she goes from here.
There are certain similar aspects, but sadly Annie's very far from 10 perfect LPs in 10 years PLUS the carreer-boosting engagements of other A-List names, like Bowie did with Lou Reed + Iggy Pop PLUS becoming a responsible parent despite the fame craze.
@@szrnkabela Well, obviously all of those things go without saying, I think the point has much more to do with the similarities and parallels, in regards to the artistry itself, artistic choices, concepts etc.. both musically and visually, rather than having anything to do with career and/or artistic accomplishments. And of course, regarding both David and Annie, or any other artist for that matter, what a "perfect 10" album is, is completely subjective, as always. Anyway, just my two cents.. Peace.. DC
It's rare that five seconds into a song I say out loud to myself 'I can tell this is going to be good'
Timeless. Thanks St. Vincent.
Timeless and Quality 🌟,🌟,🌟,🌟,
Oh my actual goddess this is one of the most epic videos ever. Annie is truly a power unto herself... BRING IT!
I’m 66, I love her and her stuff! GREAT guitar!
You and everything you do is sooo perfect. ♥ I loved seeing you live, it was one of the best experiences, the music festival was really awful and lame, but your performance was incredible, thank you so much Annie for putting so much passion and effort to everything you do, lots of love. ♥
Really unique from a guitarist's standpoint
Annie Clark is on a whole new level of music-making, I fear one day she will disappear into her music, her body slowly turned into soundwaves leaving nothing but a guitar that will create feedback with anything in a twenty meter radius. Scientist will later find encoded messages in the feedback from Annie telling us to join her in whichever dimension she is now.
lol too much Black Mirror?
And 6 years down the line you aren’t a million miles away........she’s on another level after daddy’s home 😉
Isn't this just the plot of nowhere inn
She won't disappear quick enough 😂
Fully expecting that
I just love her, not only she's a great musician, but a multi-skilled artist.
And boy, she CAN play guitar :-)
I'm obsessed with st. Vincent
Simply the best. She owned this year from start to end.
she's awesome
I love the way she plays guitar!!!... I just met her music and i'm already in love with her!!
To know that she's gay makes me so happy because I am gay too and she gives me so much inspiration to focus on what I am passionate about in my life. Love you Annie💖😘
Excellent video! Great song, and of course, the whole album is phenomenal. Congratulations on the Grammy nomination. As far as I'm concerned, 'St' Vincent' was the best album of the year!
Man I love her voice.
i remember seeing her live in 2014, i didn't know one single song from her, i was there because the next in playing was damon albarn, but damn i fell in love with this girl and her music, she's a genius
I love the guitar in this. You'd never think that she has worked with David Byrne, would you? ;)
Dorian Stretton Of course I would think that. Byrne makes a point of working with whomever is considered to be avant garde at that moment in time. This is the first time I have heard her work, and I have to say that I am not impressed. Not repulsed, yet left with a field of ambivalence that just won't quit. Her voice was acceptable, the lyrics not totally stupid, but her guitar work was idiotic in the extreme. Like I said, first exposure to her work. If there are other songs where she shreds and makes me look like an amateur, well, I am just not willing to find them.
jeligula Everyone's a critic.
Dorian Stretton Nice come back ;p
+Graeme some people just aren't worth the trouble to respond to..
+Dorian Stretton That come back was distilled truth. hehehe ;)
St. Vincent is The Allnatt Diamond resting on a bed of the most rarefied rubies in a bowl of solid platinum filled with the most richly infused, night-crawlers' delight, topsoil.
Splendiferously brilliant directing/cinematography/editing.....Chaplin/Fellini/Kubrick en masse.
I, if a comet does not hit, shall watch this many times, over and over and each shall be as if were the first.
Kudos .
This video is weird.......
I LOVE IT.
AMEN.
This video is painfully amazing.
Lady Gaga: I’m so weird
Billie Eilish: No I’m so weird
St. Vincent: *laughs in spaceship*
This group and song rock! Just heard them for first time!!! Thanks for the cool tunes!!!
Awesome video! I absolutely love the image and this eccentric style. Girl, you rock!
Why do I see this song apart of memories of a high school prom. I see the video and all the camaraderie of moments of a school prom, to the arrival and the scene of the prom. That's my video vision for this song, love the song.
I like it when she rocks out. And this material in concert was astonishing. I've seen videos of her performances of her "chamber rock" material, and despite its musical sophistication and ambitions, it seems fey and tentative to me--quirky and fledgling. On stage with this stuff she's ferocious and genuinely strange. She knows what she's doing, and I'm looking forward to what's next.
This is an anthem for introverts. Thank you, Annie.
I'm so sad that I wasted years not letting Annie Clark shred my face off, but so happy to have found the light, even if belated.
Seriously this. I had never heard of her until last week and then I got bumped into an alternate universe where Annie is the queen. She is something else.
I'm feel the same!!!
Ditto!
Me too, after years of hearing about St Vincent I finally started checking out Annie's music last year around March. Wish I had gone there earlier, but have happily been listening since, old and new. Have seen her in concert and bought the guitar. Not a crazed fan, bought the guitar because it is great and I have been a shitty guitar player for 30 years. I have played shitty guitar on over 20 great guitars over that time and Annie's remains the one I am happiest to play like crap on. Beating my '75 LP Goldtop, 1991 PRS, 1978 Ibanez PF 300, '67 Fire Engine Red Gretch Monkees, 2009 Airline Map. But definitely not my all Maple 1968 Guild Starfire III. I guess I just wanted to boast about my old guitar collection, but Annie's Ernie Ball rocks...seriously...other than my '68 Guild it is the best and so is her music.
i am so late to the party. but i'm going back to the first ones
BADASS ANNIE!!!! Congrats on the release!!! love you!!
Ill still never forgive my mom for not letting us see her in concert years ago simply because she thought her music was “weird.” How can you be so disinterested in your kid
@usl wish She still gives gigs and you only have one mom, get over it!
@@miguelpratas494 my mom finds her weird too so I get it.
That's because she is weird! Which is one of the reasons she's so great.
Sometimes parents get it wrong, just like you. Forgive them.
@@miguelpratas494 no one asked/needed your 2 cents bruh.
Annie Clark, you magnificent beast, don't you ever stop.
She's totally amazing, no wonder why Cara fell for her. Great sounds
Samantha Luau _She deserves more attention._
She have the 80's vibe!
Cool songs and cool video 😏✌
if ur cool Aunt made pop rock
You wish you could label it as pop rock. Hell no this ain't but yeah definitely you're coolest aunt
No
Bc she dyed her hair gray?
@@wolvesnrp why
Ooll l2
PERFECTION! St. Vincent continues to amaze me. Brilliant!
Quarantine anthem for anyone else?
I'm hooked. You're brilliant!
Ugh, she looks so hot playing that guitar.
yeah!! :3
Valentina Flores I love her!
Morgman Freemont i love her ex
She knows what she's dong being all hot and riffing. Killin em
dude
best song of the year. best album of the year. I FUCKING LOVE ST. VINCENT
How do those sounds roar from the same machines that other people use
Futuristic video! Right on Annie
Never heard of her! She sounds good =)
don't care what anyone says this video is freakin awesome and I love it just as much as her Digital video! it is supposed to look and sound exactly the way it does!
See You in Poland!!
GORGEOUS! I love it so much! You're the best, Annie!
St Vincent is such an amazing artist! But having said that, it is really sad that artists like her are so underrated.😔
I cry everytime i watch this, it's so beautiful, my favorite music video of all time ;u;
best legs ever
+Daniel Carrasco Yeah of course you've seen them all
No me
so many memories from seeing her live, ugh she's so good
This song is incredibly tough to play on Rock Band 4. omg
Taylor McFayden so fun to play once you get the Hang of it though:0
Taylor McFayden expert guitar?
I had quite a bit of trouble with it on both hard and expert. :/ Which reminds me, I haven't played Rock Band in a while!
Bass solo tho
But it is really fun to play on Expert Drums. I've GS'd it.
I didnt know how to feel about this song in the beginning. But like most St Vincent songs the build up and outro were amazing.
Shut up and listen to real music. LISTEN TO ST VINCENT! Its all real! Love the guitar work especially!
Love it! You're one of those artists who changed my life! Cannot get enough Annie!
My favorite part was when she played so much guitar that it made all that smoke!
Lmfao I love you
This music is amazing!
Please, Battles, take her as a frontlady or at least collaborate for a song. I have a feeling it could pay off big time.
This band should just be called "Sliced Bread"... Because that's the what they're the best thing since.
❤Rick
I heard this song bumping in the Hood the other day.. I was like "Dis my mudafucn jam. biitch".. I think i'm a fan St.V.
I swear to get her guitar riffs she just fucks around with the strings at 1 am and it becomes a wonderful song