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 TITLE: One
BY: Varanese Gallo
GENRE: Synthpop, dark cabaret, alternative
LABEL: Titanic Records
From the Album: Lover's EyesOne is the first track and the first single off of Vara Gallo's upcoming sophomore album Lover's Eyes. All of the sixteen tracks on the album, plus the three bonus tracks, are numbered One, Two, Three and so on. Vara Gallo explained, when questioned about it, that she wanted to separate her interpretation of her songs from the interpretation of her audience. She felt that the best way to do just that was to take away her song's names, making it to where the listener has call upon their own opinion of the song, and give it their own name accordingly.
Vara Gallo pulled a lot of inspiration for this album from many different places, the most obvious one being her own life. Gallo has been dating Trent d'Amoure -- the front man of Shadowmachine -- for the past few months; this was a surprising development in Gallo's personal life, since she had always seemed to be a "free spirit" and "very sexually liberated," according to her fans. Her settling down with just one person came as a shock to many. Of course, there are always the rumors that perhaps she hasn't settled down just yet: During the No Venues Tour, which Trent d'Amoure was taking part in, Vara Gallo and Mariko Kobayashi -- famed for her ridiculously violent stage shows and being the cousin of Erica Kobayashi -- were reportedly seen engaging in openly sexual acts in a bar in Japan during one of the last dates of the tour. Gallo's new development of attaining a boyfriend was soon overshadowed by the fact that Trent d'Amoure's past drug addiction was rearing it's ugly head again as d'Amoure passed out on stage many times during the No Venues Tour, and was later taken to the hospital, where Gallo joined him and stayed with him for the remainder of the tour.
Although Gallo and Mariko Kobayashi seem like great friends - or more than friends, possibly - now, they were not such great of friends to begin with. Vara Gallo openly blamed Mariko Kobayashi for d'Amoure's relapse for a long time before they became friends. So let's count all the things that Vara Gallo has learned since her last album, which did exceedingly well and still is: Love, addiction, hate, friendship, maybe some tail on the side? That's obviously enough to write a whole album on. But Vara goes on.
She also took a lot of inspiration from one of Vara Gallo's favorite books: Alice in Wonderland. Vara has admitted before that she did horribly in school when she was growing up in Italy, especially in English class, stating that it was truly a miracle that she was able to hold a conversation, much less sing, in English. The one thing that made her want to learn English more than ever is the front cover of Alice in Wonderland in her father's library. "It's always been my favorite book. If you really think about it, I have basically my whole career thanks to Lewis Carroll." For something so big in her life, Vara felt that she needed to write an album about her own adventures in her own personal Wonderland, using many slight references to it throughout her songs.
It wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know that Vara had dedicated a few of her songs to Alice in Wonderland, but she starts out her first song with a pretty simple reference to it: She has "tripped to the other side," or, "fallen into a wish of the other side." Much like Alice wishing for a more exciting place, Vara to wishes to be somewhere else. Different from Alice, however, Vara wishes to be with somebody else rather than alone in this new place she wishes for. She reaches out for the person she is addressing, apologizing to them for not being able to tell them exactly what she wants in her new, different world, and apologizing for them not being able to read her mind. In her very Vara Gallo way, she then states that if this person walked away from her because she isn't able to explain to them what she wants, she wouldn't chase after him - such as the way Alice chased about the White Rabbit. She would stay, but would regret it, probably as Alice would have had she not gone down the rabbit hole and seen what this other world could be like. "You're my temptation, you're my perfection / But you don't understand" states perfectly Vara/Alice's hesitation to take that plunge into the mysterious, but seductive unknown. At the end of the song, she realizes that even though it might not be the right decision, she's going to take that plunge.
The beat of the song is a very dark, dance-pop sort of song; the indecision of Vara/Alice and the unknown being very evident. It was an interesting choice for a first song, as not only is it a darker song, but it also throws you immediately into the story that Vara is trying to tell with her album rather than ease you into it.I've tripped to the other side
I've fallen into a wish of the other side
Don't know if you can read my mind
But I think not
I'll throw it
Oh, I think I, I mind
I don't mean to be so shy
But I don't know what to do this time
It could be lost, it could be alive
As you walk away
I think I'll stay
Might not be the one for me
But I'm thinking, oh so constantly
Might be right
You might be wrong
You're my temptation, you're my perfection
But you don't understand
Might not be the one for me
Let's try it anyway
I won't walk awaySOUNDS LIKE:
IAMX - After Every Party, I Die
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