Word: marcosã
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...woman most well known for the appalling excess of her collection of 3,000 designer shoes. As if that weren’t bewildering enough, it fails to cover the most well-known events of its subject’s life; Byrne, the album’s storyteller, omits Marcos??s shoe collection, the infamous and probably staged attempt on her life, and similarly unflattering but heavily publicized episodes...
Lauper headlines a cast of female vocalists that present a compelling and sexy image of Marcos?? character. Florence Welch, lead vocalist of British indie act Florence and the Machine, establishes this feel in the title track opener, crooning, “When I am called by God above / Don’t have my name inscribed into the stone / Just say, ‘Here Lies Love...
Byrne and Slim quickly establish musical and thematic focus in this opener: its blend of processed dance rhythms and orchestral accents serve as a fair synopsis of the album’s sound, and the inspiration for the album’s title—Marcos??s asking that “Here Lies Love” be inscribed on her tombstone—is immediately explained...
...sprawling 22-song album it feels like the difficulty of painting a sympathetic portrait of a woman who wants herself referred to as “Love” on her gravestone has been brushed over. But there are exceptions, moments in which Byrne chooses to face Marcos??s dark side: “Order 1081,” for example, describes the declaration of martial law enacted by her husband in 1972. Here Marcos??s character sings “Got to stop all this confusion / Got to wipe away the scar...
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