Is St. Vincent Our New David Bowie-esque Rock Shapeshifter?

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Annie Clark, better known as st_vincent, is this generation's quintessential rock star.

, owing to her six-stringed genius. But she's also a bonafide queer style icon, having honed her look from her two decades working as a professional musician. Music and culture deeply inform St. Vincent's sartorial cues, beginning with her humble start as a member of the Polyphonic Spree and a solo indie cult favorite in the aughts.

Now, St. Vincent is poised to begin a new chapter in her musical evolution. Her seventh full-length album,, is her most exemplary rock work to date, and she's taking inspiration from Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Cindy Sherman in her latest video "Pay Your Way In Pain." It's a 70s fever dream, complete with hazy spotlights, kaleidoscope camera effects, and lots of diffraction spikes — the photographic term for those sparkling points of light that were everywhere in the disco era.

It's 2021, and everyone is ready to dance as soon as Dr. Fauci gives us the all-clear. St. Vincent is ringing in the Roaring 2020s with a throwback to one of the most notorious party decades in history. Like Bowie, she's paying homage to the primal human need to shake our ass together, whether it's with electronic music or pure adulterated rock.

In 2017, St. Vincent had already firmly established herself among fashion's highest echelons. Her albumwas a critical darling, but she remained true to her gothic sensibilities with an enviable black wardrobe. She appreciated a prim gown, as seen above, but on stage, St. Vincent tore it up in patent leather and latex bodysuits.2014 was a huge year for St. Vincent's career — she released her eponymous self-titled album to raving critical adoration and won her first Grammy.

 

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