Is This Feeling Only Mine

Matthew Dear “Her Fantasy”

“Her Fantasy” has a dark, sexually menacing tone, but Matthew Dear’s words are paranoid and insecure, the interior monologue of a guy who is worried that his slick front won’t be enough to protect him from the pains of love. He frets about being unoriginal in his feelings, he obsesses on the cracks in his persona, he wonders “Am I one heartbeat away from receiving a damaging shock to my life?” The title is a bitter joke – you’d have to be pretty cynical to assume that any woman would want to get close to this lothario as he rips his own ego to shreds. As always, Dear’s voice is cold and a bit flat, receding into the music’s sexy ambience and steady beat. The sentiment is more effective this way – the neuroses recede a bit, but are always there buried under the ultra-hedonistic vibe.

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