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 Title: Dressed and Buttoned Up Artist: Destinee&Adele Released: October 18th, 2013 Length: 3:29 Genre: Indie rock Label: Liberation/Nomad Records
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After their debut album Not Over You Yet's glorious week at being at #1, and the several weeks afterwards of staying in the top five, Destinee&Adele disappeared for a bit - probably off to bask in the enjoyment that is your first rise to stardom. We missed them. We really did. And while they released the ocassional single off of Not Over You Yet, we were starting to want something more from them, and Destinee&Adele knew it. So now, finally, here it is: Dressed and Buttoned Up. The first single off of their upcoming sophomore album, Mourning Eyes.
Right away, we noticed there was something different about this single compared to D&A's debut album. Remember Tapdance? That song that you listened to over and over again until you were crying so hard that your downstairs neighbor heard you and called the landlord, and you couldn't hear your landlord knocking on your door over the sound of the piano, so they called your emergency contact - which you forgot to change since you and your ex-girlfriend broke up - so your ex calls you to see if you're okay, and you can hear that scumbag Rick next to her I mean god damnit Rick you couldn't have been quiet for two seconds while Kristi was on the phone what if I was really in trouble and needed her
"Dressed and Buttoned Up" is a completely different kind of sound from the meloncholy jams we remember from Not Over You Yet. We're immediately greeted by a loud electric guitar when the song starts, putting us into a very indie rock mood. While you can be sure to expect the same poetry-like lyrics from Destinee&Adele, we realize that this change in sound means that there are going to be some new stories for Destinee&Adele to tell us this time around.
Destinee&Adele are not a very well-publicized band. While we do ocassionally hear about them - like that Adele is now dating Florian Lefevre, another attractive French person who is fresh on the music scene, or about the adorable date that Destinee was seen on with Riot! famed Adam Benjamin - they are not the publicity whores that they could be if they wanted to. But if we had to guess, we would say that this song is about neither of those love affairs going on right now. Why? We don't know. There's just something a little bit too distant about this song to think that the story that inspired it happened recently. But we're not here to overanalyse the song. At least not today.
For now, let's bask in the joy that Destinee&Adele have returned to us. We missed you, our little baggettes. Please don't leave us again any time soon.
The story behind this song is a simple and sadly well-known one. A married man has fallen in love with another woman and is stepping out on his wife to be with this other woman. Destinee and Adele play the character of the other woman. Perhaps this is a true story and perhaps it isn't - there are many things in both Destinee and Adele's past that the public doesn't know. Perhaps this is one of them. The beginning verse sets up the entire story, telling us that the woman is not happy about having to pretend like she's not in the love with this man, but the man seems to have to intension to end his marriage, so they are stuck in this limbo of their relationship. Despite knowing that this will probably not change for a long time, the woman still sleeps with the man, waking up to see him getting dressed to go back home. Which is where the chorus and the title of the song comes in: "You, you're always, you're / Always dressed and buttoned up" Destinee&Adele sing. There's never any real anger in their voices, which gives the listener the feeling that although the woman isn't exactly happy with the fact that the man won't leave his wife, she considers it just an unfortunate situation in life rather than being angry over it.
The song keeps a very high-tempo upbeat feeling throughout the entire song, never sinking into the slight depression that Destinee&Adele came to be known for in their debut album. In fact, while the song seems to be about a tragic situation between two people, Destinee&Adele seem almost happy about the events they're singing about, never once letting any sort of sadness creep into their voices. Maybe this is to give the feeling of trying to hold back their feelings, or maybe they really aren't saddened by the situation they're singing about. Maybe they're just trying to show that sometimes in life, bad things that we can't control happen? Whatever it is, the odd mixture of the words and the tune gives an almost relaxing feeling to the song, as if Destinee&Adele are saying, "This situation might look bleak, but we're still just as happy as ever." And maybe that's what they're trying to tell us: Just be happy. Whatever. Here's the song.
DestineeAdeleBothMy hair pinned up in circles
Worn like a widow to second motion of second nature
Like two rafts knotted, and you're knotted, and still where sound is lost and found
But I fear it's all just coming back to me
And I fear that it's all just coming back
It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me
Under that threat of sky, we lie together
Why care about the weather?
It only ends, it ends in darkness
You, you're always, you're
Always dressed and buttoned up
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap
Do do do do do do do and you
You, you're always, you're
Always dressed and buttoned up
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap
Do do do do do do do do
Between 19, 19 and 40
For the tea, it will have changed me
And turn from the invading light on my
My naked room, my naked room
Our coffee stains and dusty coughing
You, you're always, you're
Always dressed and buttoned up
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap
Do do do do do do do and you
You, you're always, you're
Always dressed and buttoned up
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap
Do do do do do do do and youSOUNDS LIKE:
Piebald - American hearts
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