{"id":973583,"date":"2019-11-18T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913493"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:05:41","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-sarah-mary-chadwicks-devastating-please-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-sarah-mary-chadwicks-devastating-please-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Sarah Mary Chadwick\u2019s Devastating \u2018Please Daddy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Mary Chadwick<\/a>\u2019s voice has always sounded devastating \u2014 her sparse \u201cConfetti\u201d<\/a> was one of the most moving songs of the year \u2014 and that voice sounds like it\u2019s on the verge of breaking apart throughout \u201cPlease Daddy,\u201d an elegy for her late father. The New Zealand\u2013born, Melbourne-based artist can barely form the word \u201cplease\u201d toward the end of the song, as she tries to make sense of death.<\/p>\n

Although she built the tune from a slow-rolling piano line, gentle trumpet and flute lines, and a vocal line that seems to ascend to the heavens, \u201cPlease Daddy\u201d may be Chadwick\u2019s most distressing work to date. She sings each verse to her mother, telling her, \u201cnothing stirs me,\u201d \u201cnothing\u2019s bringing color to my cheeks.\u201d By the time she reaches the center of the song, she contemplates killing herself \u2014 \u201cAll the ones who died while trying\/Should I follow their lead and be done, daddy?\u201d \u2014 and she lists artists who died by suicide: Anne Sexton, Elliott Smith, Sylvia Plath. But by the next verse, she has a change of heart and gives up on ending herself.<\/p>\n

This sort of pivot is Chadwick\u2019s secret weapon, and it\u2019s what makes the song a keeper. That pirouette of mood spins the song in a new direction \u2014 not necessarily one of hope, but one that is not overtly destructive. And she\u2019s able to pull it off without it sounding corny or disingenuous because of the stream-of-consciousness approach she has with the music. Where the first part of the song is deceptively jaunty, her first step toward life seems to fall apart (or relax?), as the piano part becomes almost impressionistic and understated. As she begs for solace \u2014 \u201cPick a magic, help me through it\/Is it tragic? I\u2019ll still do it\u201d \u2014 the trumpet and flute swirl around her voice creating rare beauty. She\u2019s giving in to the music, and it\u2019s supporting her. The passiveness in the music saves her.<\/p>\n

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By the time it\u2019s done, you\u2019ve gone on a rare journey into grief, where passiveness is the only path toward sunlight. It doesn\u2019t even need a chorus. It\u2019s only the third track on Chadwick\u2019s upcoming LP, also titled Please Daddy <\/em>(her dedication on the record reads, \u201cThis is for my Dad. With belated love.\u201d), which can only mean that the rest of the record (due out January 24th) will go even deeper. The song, is a warning, a preamble, for what will likely be one of the most heartbreaking albums of the new decade.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections <\/i>on Spotify<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Mary Chadwick\u2019s voice has always sounded devastating \u2014 her sparse \u201cConfetti\u201d was one of the most moving songs of the year \u2014 and that voice sounds like it\u2019s on the verge of breaking apart throughout \u201cPlease Daddy,\u201d an elegy for her late father. The New Zealand\u2013born, Melbourne-based artist can barely form the word \u201cplease\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 19:24:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}