“Musically, I wanted a song that was like Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life.’ It changed a bit—it’s not as hard-driving, it’s more Motown-y.”
That’s how Eleanor Friedberger describes “She’s a Mirror”, the second single off her highly-revealing sophomore LP, Personal Record. Where the track did end up landing is somewhere between ’70s studio-rock (Ã la lead single “Stare at the Sun”) and a mid-’80s Hall & Oates jam, a little ditty where punchy guitars meet smooth R&B stylings for something as blissful as it is contemplative.
“Lyrically, thematically, it’s about obsession and it’s about seduction and I like how it’s very vague in terms of whose perspective is being told, where it is coming from,” she told Rookie. “At the end I kind of give it up and say ‘She’s me or a mirror, I don’t know.’ I wanted to keep that ambiguous, about whether I am singing about myself or about another woman. Or if I’m singing from a man’s perspective about another woman, or about me. Or is it about several women? The last record I did it was so specific and detailed, with proper nouns and places–and it’s nice to have a record where you catch a glimpse of an artist and their world, but [this time] I wanted something where people could insert themselves into it.”
Take a listen below.
Personal Record is due out June 4th via Merge Records.
Personal Record Tracklist:
01. I Don’t Want To Bother You
02. When I Knew
03. I’ll Never Be Happy Again
04. Stare At The Sun
05. Echo Or Encore
06. My Own World
07. Tomorrow Tomorrow
08. You’ll Never Know Me
09. I Am The Past
10. She’s A Mirror
11. Other Boys
12. Singing Time
