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Pretty on the Inside is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on September 17, 1991, in the United States on Caroline Records.Produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, and Gumball frontman Don Fleming, the album was Hole's first major label release after the band's formation in 1989 by vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric ...
They released their first national 7" record, "Girl Scout"/"American Made", in March 1997. On September 9, 1997, their first full-length album, Sexless Demons and Scars (produced by Gumball 's leader Don Fleming , who co-produced Hole 's Pretty on the Inside ), was released.
Clairo wrote and produced "Pretty Girl" using GarageBand and a small keyboard in about two hours. It is a bedroom pop, [7] [4] [8] and synth-pop [3] song inspired by 1980s pop music and written by Clairo about her feeling pressured to change her identity, silence herself, and conform to societal beauty standards for a past lover.
Hawkins has said of Dylan's lyrics, "Each time I sing [the] song I struggle to grasp what the words are saying." [58] She elaborated, "I completely feel the song, but I don't understand it." [59] In Rolling Stone, Paul Evans described the style of her version as "breathy techno-MOR"; [3] the Associated Press reviewer called it "quasi hip-hop". [4]
[44] Alternate mixes of the song that later were released as B-sides included even more satirical lyrics, such as "we took punk rock, and we got a grade." [44] In summarizing the record's themes, Spin noted: Live Through This is both a scruffier and more commercial record than Pretty on the Inside. The angsty rants of yore remain, but they're ...
"Karaoke Queen" was released as the third single on 1 November 1999, and entered at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart. Cerys wrote the track after a night out in Ibiza with Dai Morris of Dai's Cwtch and relates the tale of her falling off the stage while performing karaoke at Murphy's Irish Bar in San Antonio. [citation needed]
Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) is an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German-language libretto very loosely based on Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story "The Queen of Spades". The author of the libretto is S. Strasser (probably Suppé's second wife Sofie Strasser). [ 1 ]
The song was inspired by an incident that occurred on August 16, 1991 at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow, Scotland, where Love stage-dived and was molested by members of the audience. Speaking of the incident in a 1995 interview, Love said: We had just gotten off tour with Mudhoney, and I decided to stage-dive.