“Did you come in when I was dressed as a sperm?”
Despite her ironic tone, Annie Clark—the artist better known as St. Vincent— he's not kidding. Not an hour earlier, Clark posed for her Advertising sign shoot in a cream hooded, ruffled mini dress in front of a puffy rose-pink background meant to evoke a different human anatomy. (Let's just say the set-up was a brainchild of Georgia O'Keeffe's work.)
As St. Vincent, Clarke creates an enigmatic, opaque aura. But today, she is in an honest, funny and free spirit. He pokes fun at the suggestive images of female models plastered on the walls around us (“Boner patrol, look out!”) and easily slips from subjects (abstract Russian painter Kazimir Malevich) to lows (a playfully inaudible. briefly obsessed with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild). Clark chose to soundtrack her photoshoot with David Bowie's coke-fueled 1976 classic, Station to Station, and as we gush over the top, the singer rocks her beige Prada jacket a bit. “I like to think that trench coat gives 'Dancing in the Street,'” she says, referring to the outrageously '80s music video for Bowie and Mick Jagger's hit cover. “Minus the cocaine.”
Like Clark herself, the Grammy Award-winning St. Vincent – which runs the gamut from twee indie to original art-rock to conceptual electropop – is a fascinating blend of intellect and id. Her latest album, All born screaming, it can be experienced as an atavistic contest with existence — or simply as an alt-rock record.
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