Tell me about why you wanted to film “Augustine” at Stonewall. Does the song have a particularly queer message to you? Yeah, it does. That song is a really strange journey. It talks about St. Augustine of Hippo, who denounced his Catholicism and went to West Africa, and Nontetha Nkwenkwe, who was a South African prophet who made a church for black people to worship in. The government was so scared that they put her in a mental institution. But what I did in that song was I took a lot of lines from St. Augustine’s writing and tried to twist the words.
There’s a large sect of Christianity that’s against homosexuality, which I’ve found interesting in the later half of my life because the whole thing is about this worshipping of trying to feel a warmth and flesh. [“Augustine” is about] the idea that this religion based on the idea of finding this love and comfort so within the body would then shut out this very large aspect of love. There are a lot of moments on the album, and “Augustine” in particular, where I was taking some of the writing that I view as pretty religious and making [the lyrics] more homoerotic.
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Ya está en iTunes, Spotify, etcétera: http://smarturl.it/FreetownSoundStrm
Gracias @Flounder !
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/27/dev-hynes-blood-orange-freetown-sound-interview
http://www.spin.com/2016/06/review-blood-orange-freetown-sound/
Yeah, it does. That song is a really strange journey. It talks about St. Augustine of Hippo, who denounced his Catholicism and went to West Africa, and Nontetha Nkwenkwe, who was a South African prophet who made a church for black people to worship in. The government was so scared that they put her in a mental institution. But what I did in that song was I took a lot of lines from St. Augustine’s writing and tried to twist the words.
There’s a large sect of Christianity that’s against homosexuality, which I’ve found interesting in the later half of my life because the whole thing is about this worshipping of trying to feel a warmth and flesh. [“Augustine” is about] the idea that this religion based on the idea of finding this love and comfort so within the body would then shut out this very large aspect of love. There are a lot of moments on the album, and “Augustine” in particular, where I was taking some of the writing that I view as pretty religious and making [the lyrics] more homoerotic.
Edito: y esta chica también, que ya no me acordaba de lo que me flipaba esta canción.
Yo lo tengo que oír más veces, hay cosas geniales, pero si que me ha parecido un poco caótico en ocasiones.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18404-blood-orange-augustine/
Ahí están los créditos de cada canción. La de Kelsey Lu, Change, me gusta bastante.
No soporto But You, la estructura convencional, y sobretodo eso de You're special in your own way. . . Es too much para mi.
Pitchfork dice que muy bien, que un 8'8, con constantes comparaciones con To Pimp A Butterfly o Black Messiah.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18419-blood-orange-best-to-you-ft-empress-of/
http://jenesaispop.com/2016/07/11/265572/blood-orange-freetown-sound/
Les va a dar algo del hype.
Me flipa la foto