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(30) Days of Music: Day 29
Oct. 15th, 2010 05:19 pmPity the monsters.
One song that gives you the creeps
"Stalker," Recoil.
This song, written and sung by Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, takes as its point of view the perspective of the titular stalker as he rants to his victim about her various methods of wronging him. And it's terrifying. Unlike Peter Gabriel's "Intruder," which exudes a kind of intellectual analysis in spite of the eeriness of the narrative, "Stalker" seems to scream directly from McCarthy's oh-so tortured soul. (It screams so palpably, in fact, that you almost have to wonder about Douglas McCarthy.) In the end, as the stalker shrieks at his victim "You are nothing without me!" you can feel that his heartbreaking desire is not to convince her of this fact, but to convince himself. McCarthy's stalker is a pathetic figure: sick, sad, and solitary. And so he always will be.
( (30) Days of Music: Meme List )
One song that gives you the creeps
"Stalker," Recoil.
This song, written and sung by Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, takes as its point of view the perspective of the titular stalker as he rants to his victim about her various methods of wronging him. And it's terrifying. Unlike Peter Gabriel's "Intruder," which exudes a kind of intellectual analysis in spite of the eeriness of the narrative, "Stalker" seems to scream directly from McCarthy's oh-so tortured soul. (It screams so palpably, in fact, that you almost have to wonder about Douglas McCarthy.) In the end, as the stalker shrieks at his victim "You are nothing without me!" you can feel that his heartbreaking desire is not to convince her of this fact, but to convince himself. McCarthy's stalker is a pathetic figure: sick, sad, and solitary. And so he always will be.
( (30) Days of Music: Meme List )
