Inside Track with The Stephen King of Indie Pop

12/06/2007
. (antiMusic) With a CD called "The Drunken Dance of Modern Man In Love," and a nickname of "the Stephen King of Indie Pop," Chris Robley caught our attention. He kept our attention with his moody yet intriguing music. His bio says that he writes songs out of pure obsession and intrigue with the dark side of human relationships. So we wanted to delve a little deeper into those themes with Chris and some of the songs on the CD. We were planning on just doing a Chris Robley week with one song featured a day but with a Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Bigelf(antiMusic album of the year selection), Tarja Turunen(ex-Nightwish) and more already booked for the coming weeks you can see our schedule is pretty full and since Chris did such an incredible job with the five song stories, we couldn't wait to publish them. So we decided to give them to you now if you can't wait for his week in the new year. Here is Chris with part of the story about "The Love I Fake":

This song inspired a music journalist in San Francisco to start a whole iTunes mix for songs about prostitutes. I think The Love I Fake and Roxanne are the only ones in there so far. Feel free to leave your suggestions in the box. So why a song about a prostitute? Sometimes I'll just come up with these little mental problems in my head that need solving, and it could be anything that sets it off. It might have been a movie or a discussion or an undigested bit of mustard that made me go pondering. Start with the question, develop the answer.

Everyone at some low point in their life needs to feel empowered amidst the chaos, and how could a prostitute feel empowered given the daily horrors? And the answer I came up with was by possessing or cultivating a kind of superior air about her and by making fun of the dude in her head while it's all going down. Quiet condescension. So hopefully the listener starts off feeling sorry for the girl, but ends up feeling sorry for the pathetic guys she emasculates with her barbed tongue.

Read the rest of this song story plus full stories on four more tracks from "The Drunken Dance of Modern Man In Love"!
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