Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, cat power, design of a decade
1. Cat Power, Good Woman
The 00′s seem to have been a good decade for Chan Marshall, the singer-songwriter who had spent had most of the nineties cultivating a career out of misery and paranoia.
At the beginning of this decade, she plumbed previously undiscovered depths of lonesome despair with The Covers Record. But over time she seemed to get happier and happier, less afraid of herself and less afraid of the music she was making. In 2008 she recorded another covers album, Jukebox, which bears little resemblance to The Covers Record; Jukebox is pretty good, classy in a Starbucks way, polished and featuring a full band. Marshall made it into a lot of magazines, toured without having breakdowns mid-performance, and even appeared in Chanel ads. Those are all good things, regardless of what fans of her older material might think of the shift.
Sorry, but there’s no Pop Chart today. Next week I’ll be back with the Christmas Spectacular, and then I’m off again for a couple of weeks while the university’s closed for the holidays.
Those of you that are in Providence, though, should come down to the 201 on Westminster on Wednesday. It’s a holiday party for a bunch of Rhode Island bloggers and I’ll be there spinning 33.333333333333% of the tunes.
