Two Great Dessa Songs

[jesse_the_k]

Dessa is fierce and smart and I love her music. She's a white rapper from Minneapolis on the DOOMTREE label.

https://www.dessawander.com/music/

I HOPE I'M WRONG mourns the memory of a girlhood friend.

FIRE DRILLS rages against the victim-blaming bullshit that puts women on the constant defensive against violence.

ETA: rydra_wong tells me Dessa is "half-Puerto Rican", not white.

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[sciatrix]

I LOVE HER SO MUCH THAT IS ALL

For my money, "Lamb" is one of the best stories set to music I've ever heard, about an adult childhood abuse victim choosing to take care of her newly disabled abuser and openly considering her choices.

"Seamstress," also very very good, also very interesting in the way it toys with the way that good intentions--at least, good in the mind of the narrator--do not always make good deeds. (I ran out of thread / but that's not sewing, that's just poking holes)

[rydra_wong]

Yes, a lot of her songs are closer to being actual short stories than anything else I've heard.

The video for The Lamb is very good, in a way I can't pin down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_nGy9ARCc

[sciatrix]

The two other artists I can think of who as as lyrically gifted that way, who can paint songs as stories, are Missy Higgins and Vienna Teng. But they have vastly different musical genres.

It's such a skill. Like the acoustic equivalent of tiny dollhouse diaramas, little self contained universes that we the audience can just peer into, with the sense that there's so much more under the surface.

and DOLLHOUSE DIORAMA

[jesse_the_k]

is now the name of my emo folk-roots band!

[jesse_the_k]

Wow. LAMB. Wow.

Her artistry makes me speechless.