BLACKLISTED!
ST. VINCENT, “SAD BUT TRUE”
Why did you choose to cover Sad But True”?
ST. VINCENT: I think every person has an internal BPM, their own kind of natural tempo. So I thought about doing a faster tune, but then I thought, You know what? I think my natural BPM is this, like, swamp-stomp “Sad But True” BPM. And as far as adding the programmed drums and the instrumentation, I just sort of asked myself, “Okay… how would Skinny Puppy cover Metallica?”
You play several guitar solos in your version. The first one is more of a blues-based lead, which isn’t the type of thing we typically hear from you. Was it fun?
It totally was. With that first solo I was like, “Okay, I need to do right by Kirk and pay homage to
