You know how some people have music that they always put on to prep themselves for a session of making out? I categorise that as ‘sexy music’. Hahaha, however, I never thought any music (other than your good ol’ Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole but they’re so typical!) was good enough for me to put them into my category of ‘sexy music’.
I’ve heard the wonders of John Legend and I can almost hear Lena attesting to it right now but he still doesn’t quite do it for me. Until I bought Cat Power’s latest album Jukebox.
Chan Marshall’s (aka Cat Power) voice is raw, powerful and sensually haunting. Her music is dark and there are always moments of shimmering excitement that slowly creep up. Her albums are some of the few which I can listen over and over to on the first listen and it’s rare cos whenever I laid my hands on a new album, I could only listen to it once first and the second listen would be a couple of days later.
But she’s got me captivated and I like how you would subtly discover that you move differently when listening to her tunes. You feel strangely more confident, sexy (erm, sexy music, rem?) and when you move, you don’t walk. You strut. You prance.
She’s not a new artiste, having been around for a good ten years. But it seems like recently, everyone has just took note of her (me included). Her songs have been featured in the soundtracks of My Blueberry Nights and Juno. I gotten these two soundtracks the same time I bought Jukebox, not having seen the songlists of the soundtracks before I bought them so imagine my pleasant surprise when I kept hearing her.
Her older album You Are Free is not as good as Jukebox, I feel, but it’s still great listening anyway.
And finally, I found the first singer whom I could fit into my ‘sexy music’ category. :)
Somehow, this is how I imagined the boots that the elves made for the shoemaker looked like this. Maybe not as sleek and polished like the above. Maybe with more visible bold stitches… That said, I want a pair of Marc Jacobs boots made by elves!
