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January 14th, 2022 5:42pm

Silence Never Felt So Cruel


Blood Red Shoes “Morbid Fascination”

It’s entirely possible that Laura-May Carter’s lyrics in “Morbid Fascination” are coming from a fully autobiographical place, but the scenario strikes me as more of a dark fantasy – finding a recent ex in a bar, sitting beside them in disguise, and hearing them describe you in a very unflattering light from their perspective. There’s a lot of places you can go from this point emotionally, but the industrial glam arrangement – think Garbage, or Goldfrapp, or certain mid-90s PJ Harvey songs – feels bold and brutal, like an armor protecting Carter from the emotional impact. She feels betrayed and angry and wonders if she actually can’t see herself clearly, but mostly the vibe here is “actually, it’s funny.” And part of that is hearing herself portrayed as “someone else,” and part of that is laughing at her own capacity for masochism.

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