Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

How can one band be so cool? What aligned in the world to make these specific people meet to create something so cool? Their individual looks combine to make one cohesive movement. They have a nerd, a emo punk, and the wild front woman with insane fashion and aggressive presence. Karen's on stage dresses were handmade just for her by her and her friend. They were messy, she later became a fashion icon. Their artwork is amazing. I don't know how they get it to evoke so much feeling. I feel the music in the art, and I see the art in the music. The title Fever To Tell makes it sound urgent. It's hot and it's sick. The lyric "They don't love you like I love you" is taken straight out of an email Karen O wrote to a boy she was obsessed with. "Maps" is the only song I like to listen to singularly. I only want to listen to this album as a whole. I don't really like it otherwise, again messy. The songs feel too cluttered on their own, but calming together. The pieces fit better together. All the hard stopping and starting needs to be experienced in succession.

You probably won't see Nick Zimmer smile, or any of them really. And that's okay. It's their look.. He's in all black. Black hair spiked up, he's so little. They were probably like "We're a rock band. We're here for the art and we're not going to smile." And it feels true. Not like the other bands you see with a stone face, just trying to be a band. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs feel more like an artist collective. A band like Yeah Yeah Yeahs did so many things first. I want to know how they knew to do those things. Who influences the influencers?