"move your body in a certain way to fit my picture frame..."
Gabriella Zauna's "Gold Bentleys & Red Carpets" is bathed in an opulent melancholia. I am talking about the song itself and the impressive Official Video as directed by Ian Dooley and Gabriella herself. She starts off with her beautiful resonant vocal lilt, the trembling sustains containing emotional layers pouring over her sparse piano. The drum beats are felt as emotionally as the vox in the way they tumble over the piano and deep bass tones like water cascading over boulders. The groove ascends gently but the sadness is always there. Gabriella has a way with words, with melodies and an absolute ability to touch us.
Gabriella shares: "this song is written in character about an old Hollywood 50's family who has all the money and fame in the world, yet they are the most unhappy people to exist. Throughout the song, you see them slowly starting to fall apart. The deeper meaning behind this characterization is the fact that people put on facades to show a happy fake version of themselves, when in reality they actually are ripping at the seams. You never really know who someone is."
In the end, "Gold Bentleys & Red Carpets" reminds us that wealth (and or fame) doesn't decrease the demons that can plague us and, in fact, in my humble opinion, that wealth can sometimes only allow those who are hurting deeply to mask it more ways. Hey, let's all take care of each other.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
17 years of being sad give me shit to write about so here is the evidence
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