The '>Abort, Retry, Fail?_' message that appeared on some inlay cards was explained by the artist: "Well, this cheerful message became a kind of shibboleth for me and sort-of characterises what's been going on for me the last few years." The song was created using free MIDI sequencing software for the Atari ST and a cheap multitrack cassette tape recorder. The hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals." Mishra admitted that being signed to a major label ( EMI) did not allow him to express creative control, and the loss of his anonymity due to the song's popularity drove him "mad". ![]() Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-arse Marxist. Being a gay guy in love with a straight man. Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian. Mishra wrote that the themes of the song include: "Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist/ Marxist movement. Although it's written in the first person, the character behind that viewpoint isn't necessarily what the casual listener would expect". He says "When I wrote it, I was trying to write a pop song that had more than one perspective. ![]() Mishra has stated that the lyrics could stem from or be related to multiple situations. In 1997, the song was heard by Mark Radcliffe (a BBC Radio 1 presenter at the time) who played it, helping Mishra gain much recognition in a short time. Jyoti Prakash Mishra, White Town's sole member and the writer of "Your Woman", had garnered some notoriety within the United Kingdom's underground music scene in the years leading up to the song's mainstream release. In the booklet of their 1999 album 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields' frontman Stephin Merritt described "Your Woman" as one of his "favourite pop songs of the last few years." In 2010, the song was named the 158th best track of the 1990s by Pitchfork. ![]() It peaked within the top 10 of the charts in 12 other countries and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart and also topped the charts of Iceland, Israel and Spain. It features a muted trumpet line taken from a 1932 recording of " My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band. It was released in January 1997 as the lead single from the album Women in Technology. " Your Woman" is a song by British music producer White Town.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |