“Girl of the Year” is inspired by one of Andy Warhol’s superstars, Edie Sedgwick, who was known as “Girl of the Year” in 1965. Legrand also notes in a Pitchfork interview in April 2018 that she would include Warhol’s Factory and Edie Sedgwick on a “mood board” for the album “7.”
In another intervie...
[Verse 1]
You slide out on sunset
Head west on bedrest
On your own
On your own
[Verse 2]
Get dressed to undress
Depressed to impress
All night long
All night long
[Verse 3]
Turn on the TV
They all wanna see me
Come undone
Come undone
[Verse 4]
Pick all the petals
Off all the daisies
One by one
[Chorus]
The feeling's here
The pattern caught in a falling tear
And in the waves
One goes and the other one knows
One high
The feeling's here
She rolls
The pattern caught in a falling tear
Too soon
And in the waves
She goes
One goes and the other one knows
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
Baby's gone
All night long
Baby's gone
All night long
Girl of the Year was written by Victoria Legrand & Alex Scally.
Girl of the Year was produced by Beach House & Sonic Boom.
Beach House released Girl of the Year on Fri May 11 2018.
Talking about how Edie Sedgwick’s inspired her for this album, Victoria Legrand said in an interview with CR Fashion Book:
She was an example of somebody who was a superstar, in the way that Warhol’s girls were superstars. She was a beautiful, yet deeply troubled girl and at the same time, she was...