This is a bit off topic, but this reminds me of a strange experience I had at work the other day. I was covering a community Thanksgiving event, and the queen of a local beauty pageant was there, wearing her weird crown and waving to people at the door.
She was all made up and wearing a nice dress and from a distance she looked mature and comfortable, like someone I would be able to converse with pretty easily. But when I approached her to get a quote and snap some pictures, I saw she was
nervous as hell.
Turns out, she was a high school junior.
Her
lips quivered when she answered my questions, and it was immediately obvious that she was terrified. I felt extremely uneasy and damned my editor for not sending me out with a female reporter.
Asking her if I could take her picture felt downright dangerous.
This is how I feel about Art Angels. The cover art and my prior experience with Grimes had me thinking it would be in my wheelhouse, so to speak. But after a couple tracks I felt like I was trolling a high school prom with GHB in my pocket.
