Had a great time recording this one with Sunny Levine for his Boss Selection project. “Kellen Winslow” (Boss Selection, featuring Pete Yorn) Only lyric is “David Bowie,” repeated over and over…until…wait for it…ĩ. Chris Bell who sings “I am the cosmos” was the bass player of Big Star. The way the drums and Nicky Hopkins’ piano propel the track forward as if skipping along through a beautiful meadow on a warm spring day.Ĭlassic Replacements homage to the late, great Alex Chilton, singer of Big Star, one of my favorite bands of all time. The rhythmic feel of this song is just amazing. Takes me back to my boyhood with such an unconventional backing track. Interestingly, It is rumored to be based on an English language poem written by Bonnie Parker herself a few weeks before she and Clyde Barrow were shot, titled “The Trail’s End.” Such an intoxicating vibe from the moment it begins. “Bonnie and Clyde” (Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot) To accompany his starlet-twisted tale, Yorn shared a track-by-track breakdown of 10 other songs about famous people tied to the lockdown-driven anthem.ġ. “We don’t know where or why,” says Yorn, “and then attention drifts up to the sky for a brief moment, and then it all goes black.”
Taking its Groundhog Day cues, Yorn’s daily chores repeat through the final act, where he’s all dressed up with somewhere to go. I try to avoid it at all costs, but it usually helps me to feel better and keep on going through life, and I like that, especially during the pandemic.” The concept seemed anti-music video to me. I know it’s not pretty-skinny ankles and hairy legs. “This is a video of me doing the most mundane thing I need to do every day to stay sane. “This video is a metaphor, a metaphor for anything you see in it really-or maybe it’s not,” shares Yorn. In the video, Yorn is seen exercising, a mostly irregular activity for the artist.
“At the end of the day, it’s about picking yourself back up, dusting yourself off, and getting the fuck back out there,” says Yorn of the track, off his upcoming ninth album Hawaii, set for release early 2022.įollowing his first covers album, Pete Yorn Sings the Classics, released earlier in 2021, and his Rooftop EP, commemorating the 20th-anniversary release of his debut, Musicforthemorningafter, “Elizabeth Taylor,” co-produced with Jackson Phillips, marks Yorn’s first piece of original material since Caretakers. “Elizabeth Taylor” captures the essence of retaining some sense of sanity during the most uncertain of times with the lyrics, Terrified of making mistakes and arranging time / I was always looking for other things on my mind …You take one next step to another day It was swirling around you and me. She has to decide if there is any chance of a future with him, which means not only being fit into his already hectic global travel schedule, but being up front with him about her disability, which, if past history is any indication, may kibosh the relationship anyway.There are songs about Bowie, Buddy Holly, and even infamous killers Bonnie and Clyde and all the many famous faces, figures, and fixtures of the imagination, but when Pete Yorn was sequestered during the pandemic, there was one specific icon that transformed into a song. Despite their bumpy beginning, she especially makes that romantic connection with Peter. Key among those is an American skier named Steve Haslachez at the mountain for some races, a Parisienne named Nicole Schallon who is waiting for her married lover to show up, ski equipment executive François Rossignol who is a little more comfortable discussing his own physical disability, and freelance photographer Peter Nichols who is largely there to take photos of his current love interest Bobbie, also there for the races. The ruse works, she making some friends and having some lovers along the way. Before she goes, she is able to persuade a Parisian doctor to put her usually braced leg in a cast so that people will just assume that she is recuperating from a ski injury, instead of being permanently disabled.
On her limited funds, she will ditch a couple of the tour dates and instead head to the French ski resort of Megève on a deal. In going on that European tour, Susan comes up with an idea to explore life without being judged solely by her disability. As such, many men seem to be attracted to her until they see the brace. Having contracted a case of viral encephalitis at age nine, Susan requires a brace to walk, and even then with a limp. She is considering accepting the marriage proposal of straight-laced investment banker Frank Bantam, it a marriage of convenience for both with Frank still in the closet, and Susan facing her own man problems.
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Susan's parents are helping arrange a European concert tour to increase her professional profile. Susan Berlanger, a New York based concert flutist, is currently in the pit orchestra for a ballet company where her best friend Lisa Elliott is a dancer.