God’s Private Eye

Glenn Gould featuring U.S. Girls “Good Kinda High”

This song was created as part of a project in which the producer Billy Wild collaborates with contemporary artists with the goal of giving the late pianist Glenn Gould’s music new life in modern music. In the case of this song made with Meg Remy of U.S. Girls the Glenn Gould of it all is rather subtle, as it’s entirely subsumed into something that basically just sounds like a very good U.S. Girls song in structure, tone, and feeling. It’s a song with a strong melody and a sour tone, produced with just enough gloss that it sounds like if Britney Spears had recorded a Bond theme off the strength of the high-tech spy movie vibes of “Toxic.” But as far as the song gets from Glenn Gould’s classical context his piano part is still centered in the piece and is not chopped up or noticeably altered. As much as the piano is decontextualized his playing is clearly identifiable, a tone and touch that’s familiar to anyone who’s heard his Goldberg Variations.

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