FLANNERY O'CONNOR: A VIOLENT FEMME
(sequência daqui)



"The Violent Femmes' 1984 album Hallowed Ground is basically a Flannery O' Connor teleplay for an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. 'Never Tell' is the sound of one man snapping, wallowing in a miasma of paranoiac rage, screaming, babbling, intimidating, promising some really uncouth form of adolescent revenge:

Don't you know nothin'
You never tell on someone
What are you gonna do, ya gonna turn rat fink?
What do you wanna do?
Do you wanna see, wanna see what it's like to sink?"


"Country Death Song"

"If 'Never Tell''s unglued antihero is the misfit teenager of our story, 'Country Death Song' is his adulthood. It's exactly what it claims to be — a countrified tale of hard work, poverty, and ennui ('I was thinkin' and a thinkin' 'til there's nothin' I ain't thunk, breathin' in the stink, 'til finally I stunk') that culminates in his daughter's grisly demise. It's Amateur Night at the Grand Guignol, and lead Femme Gordon Gano has brought along a banjo. 'Country Death Song' is as unsettling as any Johnny Cash murder-confession, even before the drums make their ferocious entrance at the end". (aqui)

(2011)