Emmy the Great - First Love
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Emmy the Great first showed up on my radar after I watched her in a video on the Brighton Port Authority website, but there’s not much information about her out there in the tubes of the internet. She sings on their song “Seattle,” which has a pretty neat video, but is not particularly good, though the cute Emmy has an equally cute voice. (Incidentally, her not-very-good song and the not-very-good Iggy Pop song are the best from the BPA album.)
The first single from the album is “We Almost Had A Baby,” an average song picked because it is supposedly more accessible (and it might be), but “Dylan” and “First Love” are better examples of her songwriting abilities (though, admittedly, they aren’t as cheery). The most powerful track is “24” and with lines like “and you say one man is the parachute/the other is the knife that cuts the brakes,” it is more poignant and impassioned than anything with references to Jack Bauer and the television show 24 has any right to be. This is the song that makes her name choice seem fitting.
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Affixing “the Great” to one’s name seems a bit outdated as most of the people known as “the Great” seem to come from another era, but she claims it’s related to an email address and was never meant to be her stage name. That’s just what she’d say if she had a huge ego though…or maybe she likes to ‘kick it super old school’ and she knows that ‘super old school’ isn’t very popular. The music she plays is filled with endearing anecdotes and pop culture references, but her word choice and her delivery are what make her stand out from the crowd.
