Prompt: "Chekov's song"
Selected by Brianna
"Faberge Falls for Shuggie"
Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, 2007
Too much time was spent trying to figure this prompt out, so once again, I turned to the internet for some help. This time, a Reddit thread appeared! Apparently, five years ago, a bunch of strangers online attempted to do what some of us are trying to do with our song choice: find one that uses the principle of Chekov's gun in musical form.
There were some really cool takes and insights in the 25 or so comments in the thread, but I liked this song's discussion the most. It hits upon a part of music that always puts me in awe—the non-musical part. Song titles, album titles, and covers. How does a group of people narrow down these creative options to the final choice?
Well, Of Montreal seems to be on another planet with this. Not only is their music always endlessly interesting and completely their own, but this time they managed to use TWO of their next albums' titles in the lyrics on this track. What seemed like a pointless, meandering slew of words turns out to be quite significant for their discography. A Chekov's song, indeed.
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