AIR FT. VICTORIA LEGRAND - SEVEN STARS
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Michaela Drapes: Cinema is my first love, even over music and I have a very sentimental attachment to Méliès’ Le Voyage Dans La Lune (I mean, I go out of my way to walk past this NYC landmark as often as I can.) And, naturally, I also can’t help but think of the Smashing Pumpkins’ riff on the same material, which one can hear occasional tiny echoes of here (the smoothly dry and even rhythm bits, easily). It also makes sense to have a guest vocal by Legrand, given her familial connection to one of the greatest soundtrack composers of our time; Air certainly aspires to those lofty heights here, too. This odd mélange of references, which could have crumbled in lesser hands, is certainly potent and successful. Though I’d like to think that I’m too sophisticated to have my head turned by such blatantly tasteful and baroque pop, I’m secretly happy to know that’s not actually true.
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I am really happy with how this blurb came out, y’all.
