Songtext Please stop dancing The Magnetic Fields

Biografia

The lead singer, arranger, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the orchestral indie-pop act Magnetic Fields is a wonderfully mopey Boston native by the name of Stephin Merritt. At his best, his delightful songs combine the fancy wordplay and ability to flawlessly genre-hop of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway show tunes with the dour and minor-keyed yet self-deprecating tone of indie-rock. Magnetic Fields' masterpiece is the 1999 triple album 69 Love Songs, which does exactly as it says on the box: on each disc there are 23 remarkably consistent and varied songs loosely about love or lust or romance. His bleakly amusing lyrics have surely inspired dozens of grad school theses; and if not, they should have. Like his peer the writer David Sedaris, Merritt may cast himself in his songs as a comical loser in love, but he does so in a way that after listening to a Magnetic Fields album, you just want to have the guy over for dinner and be his best friend.