- Music
- 05 Sep 17
Following the release of the video, 'New York' taken from her upcoming untitled sixth album, Annie Clark, AKA St. Vincent has put out a series of absurd sketches scripted by Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia and Sleater Kinney.
Satirizing inane filler questions typically asked by interviewers, the clips feature Clark offering suitably ridiculous responses that, on the surface sound like articulate and coherent answers.
Given such titles as 'Insert light banter' or 'Insert question about Annie Clark and St. Vincent being the same person', the vague replies are delivered in a deadpan tone, as Clark makes observations such as "I think that relevance is an act of political fluency", or "The glass is half full of emptiness."
In her recent New Yorker profile, Clark said the idea for this sarcastic interview kit came about as a result of feeling like a "factory worker" during press junkets. "When you have to say something over and over, there’s a festering self-loathing. No better way to feel like a fraud."
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So, while we wait for the new St. Vincent LP to drop, instead, why not listen to the album she would have with her on a desert island, which is apparently "a flare gun, a first aid kit, a cell phone and a boat."
Watch below: