or "whaaats the point"

Ya

Ya?

Type O Negative 💚

I discovered her on SNL on the work tv on shift. I stopped dead to watch it. Maybe 2013?

about a decade

same here!

Ah hell yeah dude. Welcome! I come back here often. Been here for a decade. Austin, TX native.

Please check out The Hood Internets Digital Humpty.

Hell yes

Wrong

VERY Byrne-ish

So that is why I felt appealed from the first sound.

Eno is the ever-present wisdomly grandfather who Annie has the closest bond with, and Steve Albini is the weird uncle with an abstract mind who she never connected with until adolescence and gave her her first guitar.

This a good comment

Did Mike's Mic write this comment ?

There've been a lot of comments with this same template: "I can't believe ________ invented ______, iconic [or 'what an icon']" And I haven't seen a single fucking one that's older than a year and a half I think you started a trend.

@@iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545 Are you Ben Shapiro?

@@lasseheller9863 lmao 😭

Absolutely agree! Stunningly beautiful (and incredibly talented)

Tell me you're ugly without telling me.

Agreed

Exactly. If I wanted to be comforted id wrap myself up in a blanket and take a nap. id rather be challenged. feel all the emotions.

What's disturbing is the truth found in the lyrics.

disturbing is Animal Collective - Peacebone

This is more of a film score than a song though. It’s too weird and just not catchy or memorable…it’s definitely interesting, just not a good song.

Sounds more like a Barry Sax or a Trombone to me

You might be right : )

+Dominique Temple it's all three. You could distinguish the trumpets by their higher notes, the saxophones by the slurs and the trombone because it played low

Trombones can slur just as easily as a saxophone, if not easier considering they're played by slide.

those are bari saxes playing in the beginning

fails

hah my first thought too :)

Which one?

Yeah. St. Vincent's world was like an alpha version of San Junipero.

Bullshit. Art is about communicating an idea.

@@hunger993 if that's not what this video and song is doing than what is it to you?

hunger993 do you know what the song is about? Social media and technology creating dissatisfaction and numbness in its user’s lives. It seems the message went over your head.

@@anirose6807 This

Just discovered it, it's okay, not bad at all, just very pop-y, but that's the vibe

I've listened so much since I've heard it this week.

Totally agree, I actually didn't like this song much when I first listened to it, but something always made me come back & loved it a little more each time. And now I can't stop listening to it.

Unique?!?! Laurie Anderson was doing this same pretentious shit 30 years ago.

Teenage Hermit I hear some Kate Bush in this. :)

Teenage Hermit She works with David Byrne of Talking Heads frequently.

+Rolman80 80 lmfao you're like: "things i hate 1 negativity 2 lists 3 irony"

+Rolman80 80 Bro, she's saying you hate this song, then ironically list all the qualities of this song as things you like in 80's music, then repeat that you hate this song.

LOLLL

i dont get it

+Joe Mama I know where to get it if you want it. ;o)

And the Eagle Eye award goes to...

10/10

yoooooooo my dad played st. vincent's performance of the song on the bbc and I've never been the same since.

+Andrew Ward Yeah.

+Jean Rodriguez y@.

+Jean Rodriguez Ya!!!!

yeah :3

.....yeah..

Exactly the same response for me :)

yeah this is true me with her in general. a year ago i had 2 songs from her on my computer, that i kinda liked. then i bought an album and another..and then the new one. i love basically every track. tho i had to pass on the album with david byrne..not really my speed

Literally me xD

Same

same😂 actually scare me first

Yeah man, I saw her in austin and dallas this week, and goddamn, I don't think anyone will ever be able to top those two shows, or any of her shows, ever.

hunter kreuer Or as the art world knows it and routinely refers to it - deconstruction.

hunter kreuer That doesn't even make sense to suggest.

Also.. I always like the criticism of "selling out." One can sell out and still be artistic -- just depends on how much they're willing to bend. All I know is that I'd sell out as soon as I could. God forbid, I make money doing what I enjoy.

I agree wholeheartedly. However, as Brian Eno says, "Have we not evolved beyond the Talking Heads?"

Very true. Annie made a fan of me with her older material because I liked the sincerity (especially if you watch her older stuff live, like the DUMBO sessions), but with each album, she changed her sound and evolved, so I re-listen to them often. Each one satisfies a mood for me. This new album is pretty different, and I like it. It satisfies a different mood. It's fiercer, more experimental, and there's plenty more guitar (which Annie seemed to want to get back to). She's one of the few artists choosing to explore their style, and partially why she's my favorite artist. I'm excited for what she comes up with next.

Yeah. Well. Did you touch her (fishnetted) legs, bro? S'wat it's really all about, you know.

you havent been to any good concerts then..

agreeed

@@BostonianBroker You're from Boston - you're fairly fucking clueless on just about everything.

Wow sweeeeet !

Me too I've always loved it

Amen!

ikr

Yeah

Ronnie Sanders my hair when I had hair

Ronnie Sanders tbh my hair everytime..

F.W. M. Best fucken book ever and yes the song definitely goes with it 😂 and your right on point with it lmao

Yes; utilitarian clothing and bad coffee and everyone observing everyone else's motions. The outdoors make me think of A Clockwork Orange. That Brutalist architecture.

I think this song is about social media like Facebook. People are so focused on digital life they forgot their real life!

@@firefoxjb that's my interpretation too. Every year the brain rot of "social" surveillance media is getting evermore obvious And, well, it social media is everyone being watched by everyone, isn't it🤔 so 1948 is not that far off, refering to the original comment

I bet she put on a better show than the Black Keys, she jams live.

I saw her in Austin with the Black Keys and was really sad when she left the stage :(

True. Still the most viewed vid on the official channel tho, and one of the most plays on Spotify. Los Ageless always comes up as her most popular song (and while it’s brilliant and worthy of the claim) it’s datas a little obscured by it being featured in tv soundtracks. Think it’s safe say Digital Witness still gets the attention it deserves

LOVE LOVE LOVE YES

yes yes yes

Boontarika honey love love love love love

It is. You know normally I am one of those "Not everything needs a deep meaning." type people. I can listen to some pretty bad music as long as I can bob my head with the beat. But with her I feel like it is deeper. I think people assume that because it is 'pop' music it can't have a deep message. But that is just it, It can. Something can be simple and also complex. Everything is not black and white.

Agreed.

100% YES 😀

Or, both her and the Talking Heads channeled the same muse... She simply channeled it for a song or two, whereas they channeled much more, quantity-wise, from the same.

@@JasonBunting Reminds me of early Tori Amos.

Right??? I mean, this is tripped out stuff; I hope they make it big time. I only first saw them and heard of them on that last SNL season finale. I was waaaayyyy impressed! Love St. Vincent!!!

it was all cgi man surprisingly aha

In madrid... partially in a water treatment plant lol

Stephen Taylor St. Vincent is just Annie Clark, it's not a band.

SnackPatrol There is a constant band, that work both in studio and on tour. But yes they could all be replaced and as long as Annie is there it is still St V.

its because its on ads, and most people don't like ads, even if they are good.

lol just skip the add then I know I do when it pops up

1ab23c4d5e6f For whatever reason, I've yet to see an ad when watching this video, and I've seen it more than a few times in the last week.

***** im not the hater, im saying that is their logic.

***** This video IS an ad. That's what he/she was saying.

Agreed..

I think the point was to make you question that desire. Unless you're being sarcastic and I missed it?

@@teodorasavoiu4664 I was being cheeky. I love Annie and this song is amazing... and eerily accurate.

Yah

nah

Maybe?

Yea

Mhm.

Well they came here to listen and commented their opinion. Stop acting like this is new.

Wrong

Agreed.

maybe because the robotic manner of the people in the video is too close to their reality

david simms How about the robotic manner of the people who lap up anything that has the art school stamp of approval? This track has nothing on most of St. Vincent's stuff and it's almost aggressively annoying.

It makes people uncomfortable and that's why they dislike it. She pushes boundaries like nobody else does. SpookyApparation- it sucks you don't like it. I've followed Clark her entire career and I think it's some of her best material. I wasn't a huge fan of Strange Mercy but each to their own :)

david simms Holy shit that's a great comment!!

I feel ya !

LoL 😁 like Mario Bros

NO NO NO

wtf

YEEEEEESSSSS SHE DOOOOO

Damn vampires.

Yes

🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄

Well it's definitely not POP, nor rock either. "Alternative", maybe, but alternative to what? It also sounds a little like "new wave" (which is "new" since 1978). Well, I can tell you one thing for sure, it's jolly good fucking MUSIC

Martín Zuccari Its pop. Don't make pop a dirty word.

Martín Zuccari Indie or Alt Pop.

Sandrin Fernando or just pop because there is nothing wrong with pop.

certainly there is not. There's someting wrong with some so called "pop" artist, that's it.

Yeah

Feelings of a boring mundane futuristic world void of all passion?

+Joseph DeWyze What's the point of even sleeping?

Dystipian

This is the greatest goddamn song ever recorded

How ironic

lolol ! A conventional and commercial band trying to be the opposite. Makes all f....g sense ... XD They just want you to buy their work ... that's what I understand. Try understanding cannibal corpse ...

she's more like Björk.

Its Googles campus xP

+popc52 ….?

The scary part is that it already is.

lets just hope that her hair doesnt become the next trend aye..

And also the song is catchy as fuck.

It's a good song