Autori: Anohni Hegarty, Jimmy Hogarth
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Genere: Alternative
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
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"Scapegoat"
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“Anohni’s voice sounds delicate, angry, and exhausted, as she grieves track by track — for the unfulfilled promises of civil rights [...] for the immolation of a world succumbing to ecocide.”
— Rolling Stone, The Best Albums of 2023 So Far
“‘It Must Change’ [is] a deeply felt protest song with targets between the personal and political, and gorgeously lush production worthy of Sigma Sound Studios in the ’70s. Organic, emotional, timely, timeless.”
— Billboard, The 25 Best Pride Songs of 2023 (So Far): Staff Picks
Today, ANOHNI shares a video for “Scapegoat,” the centerpiece of her latest album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, released on Rough Trade and Secretly Canadian. Shortly after its release, Vulture praised “Scapegoat” as one of the Best Songs of 2023 (So Far) writing, “Both prayer and plight — a blunt assessment of our current world and a hope that its bigotry will eventually end.”
The song “Scapegoat” — co-written by ANOHNI and producer Jimmy Hogarth — articulates the crisis experienced by those caught in cycles of persecution, interweaving the intentions of a perpetrator with an omniscient voice, perhaps that of Nature herself. The lyrics are direct: “You’re so killable … disappear-able // This one we need not protect // This one’s a freebie for our guns // take this one to a place // You’d better have your way // Take all of my hate into your body.” ANOHNI refers alternately to victims of sexual assault, kidnapping, murder, gun violence, torture, and bullying. She asserts that certain human bodies are designated as expendable by our families, communities and societies.
In the final stanza, ANOHNI states: “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from // It doesn’t matter what you’ve got to give, or why you want to live // You’re my scapegoat // It’s not personal.” A crushing guitar solo commands the song’s finale. By stating “It’s not personal,” ANOHNI offers that the interior specificity of scapegoating victims exists beyond the insight, and the reach, of any perpetrator.
The song “Scapegoat” is a deeply felt protest song, and gorgeously lush production worthy of Sigma Sound Studios. “ANOHNI is returning with a statement that’s softer in tone than her last, but no less deliberate in her message,” FLOOD reports.
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presenta il video
"Scapegoat"
girato con la sua famiglia
“Anohni’s voice sounds delicate, angry, and exhausted, as she grieves track by track — for the unfulfilled promises of civil rights [...] for the immolation of a world succumbing to ecocide.”
— Rolling Stone, The Best Albums of 2023 So Far
“‘It Must Change’ [is] a deeply felt protest song with targets between the personal and political, and gorgeously lush production worthy of Sigma Sound Studios in the ’70s. Organic, emotional, timely, timeless.”
— Billboard, The 25 Best Pride Songs of 2023 (So Far): Staff Picks
Today, ANOHNI shares a video for “Scapegoat,” the centerpiece of her latest album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, released on Rough Trade and Secretly Canadian. Shortly after its release, Vulture praised “Scapegoat” as one of the Best Songs of 2023 (So Far) writing, “Both prayer and plight — a blunt assessment of our current world and a hope that its bigotry will eventually end.”
The song “Scapegoat” — co-written by ANOHNI and producer Jimmy Hogarth — articulates the crisis experienced by those caught in cycles of persecution, interweaving the intentions of a perpetrator with an omniscient voice, perhaps that of Nature herself. The lyrics are direct: “You’re so killable … disappear-able // This one we need not protect // This one’s a freebie for our guns // take this one to a place // You’d better have your way // Take all of my hate into your body.” ANOHNI refers alternately to victims of sexual assault, kidnapping, murder, gun violence, torture, and bullying. She asserts that certain human bodies are designated as expendable by our families, communities and societies.
In the final stanza, ANOHNI states: “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from // It doesn’t matter what you’ve got to give, or why you want to live // You’re my scapegoat // It’s not personal.” A crushing guitar solo commands the song’s finale. By stating “It’s not personal,” ANOHNI offers that the interior specificity of scapegoating victims exists beyond the insight, and the reach, of any perpetrator.
The song “Scapegoat” is a deeply felt protest song, and gorgeously lush production worthy of Sigma Sound Studios. “ANOHNI is returning with a statement that’s softer in tone than her last, but no less deliberate in her message,” FLOOD reports.
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