Wreck The Spectacle You Live In

Phoenix “Tuttifrutti”

The new Phoenix album is meant to be an escapist fantasy, a dreamy European wonderland of a piece with the romanticized luxury of Thomas Mars’ wife Sophia Coppola’s body of work. But just as the surface aesthetic of her films are a front for directionless melancholy, Mars’ words undermine the up tempo summer vibes of his band’s music. “Tuttifrutti” in particular builds up a fantasy of wealth and indulgence just to imagine what it’d be like to tear it apart. There’s a resentful tone in his phrases – “don’t tell the broken hearted ‘that’s what you get’” – but there’s no clear narrative. It’s just a vivid setting and a relatable feeling, and the aesthetic is overpowering enough that the sentiment is relatively subtle.

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