Year of Love
Jenny Hval * Track #1 On Classic Objects
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Year of Love by Jenny Hval
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For “Year of Love,” Jenny Hval took a story of a proposal that occurred during one of her performances as a basis. In a press statement, she clarified:
For me, this experience was very troubling. It confronted me with the fact that I am also married. What does that detail from my private life say a...
Year of Love Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We were married on a rainy day
Isn't that how the song goes?
I wore black jeans and codeine
I guess I wanted to make sure
I seemed "relaxed"
[Verse 2]
"It's just for contractual reasons," I explained
Signing the papers
As if I truly believed that a contract was further
From the institution than the industrial happiness complex
[Chorus 1]
But in the year of love
I signed a deal with patriarchy
Now watch me step
Into the place where you can see me: Look at mе
You think that I'm different, but I'm a stagehand
Look, it's thеre, under the ring
The imprint on my skin
[Verse 3]
Oh, a year later, I'm on stage
When a man proposes to a woman
Right in front of me, in the middle of a song
I thought I knew what was about
[Interlude]
And I am holding a disco flashlight
It is meant to make the audience
Feel like multitudes of colors
That belong to nobody in particular
That they share between their bodies
But now all it does is light up a proposal
A normcore institution
I am giving it my voice, but then again, I already did
Oh, already did
[Chorus 2]
But in the year of love
I did what I never thought I would
And you may think I'm different
But listen, all contracts can be sung
With my voice, I'm just a stagehand
Look, it's there, under the ring
The imprint on my skin
Year of Love Q&A
Who wrote Year of Love's ?
Year of Love was written by Jenny Hval.
Who produced Year of Love's ?
Year of Love was produced by Kyrre Laastad & Jenny Hval.
When did Jenny Hval release Year of Love?
Jenny Hval released Year of Love on Tue Jan 18 2022.
What have the artists said about the music video for the song?
A sense of loss and joy intertwines in a world of disconnected rooms. The artist inhabits these rooms. She is frozen in time, space, and mid-vowel. She is aware of her immediate surroundings. She is aware that there is more beyond what she can see. A version of her exists in a compressed, compromise...
What concert did the proposal take place at?
According to The Guardian, the marriage proposal that interrupted Jenny Hval’s live show happened in Paris at The Centre Pompidou, on 30 October 2019. She was touring for her album The Practice Of Love.