For A Million Years

Maston & L’éclair “Ghost”

On the surface “Ghost” is all placid kitsch, gently grooving with an array of vintage keyboards as if part of the goal was to soundtrack a Hollywood pool party. But just as Hollywood is famous for dressing up misery in mellow luxury, the lyrics sketch out a character who’s just barely getting by while regularly chasing highs and burning out. There’s some judgment in the lyrics but not so much in the way the soft and empathetic way they’re sung, or the way it leaves off on a sentiment that suggests this person’s being viewed with some awe, as if the way they’ve escaped from themselves is an aspirational state – “the lonely all want to know / how’d you fight it off for a year?”

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