Grace Annabella Anderson picks 4 movies to pair with ‘Art, Baby’
In Pairings, artists and creators pick the movies that complement their latest work.
Grace Annabella Anderson is an indie singer-songwriter whose debut album Art, Baby is available on February 6 wherever you get your music!
We asked Grace to pick a few movies that pair well with the new album.
Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird has been a longtime favorite of mine, and like so many young women, I’ve identified with aspects of Saoirse Ronan’s character through many different chapters of my life. Because I’ve returned to this particular film time and again, it makes sense that its influence would seep into the album. The eleventh track “East and West Coast” in particular bears a certain similarity to Lady Bird in its coming-of-age story arc, deep love being found in friendships, and of course, a bicoastal influence on identity.
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The classic Shakespearean love story feels incredibly pertinent to this album, especially in the tracks “Take It Back” and “Fate” as they share common themes of destiny, desire, risk, and heartache. This 1968 adaptation particularly suits the elegant, romanticized, near-cinematic emotional state where many songs on the album take root.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
The album’s strong assertion of identity, through-line of distrust in men, and its occasional bitingly sarcastic lyrical quips all call to mind the spirited Kat Stratford, this iconic romcom’s leading lady. “Halfway” in particular parallels the cool distaste Kat holds for Patrick Verona from the start, and musically, Art, Baby contains several songs stylistically reminiscent of the very late ‘90s/early 2000s.
Blue Valentine (2010)
The film’s sincerity, heart-wrenching realism, and structure of past vs present mirror narratives explored in the album, and the song “Take It Back” in particular. As in Blue Valentine, the song rings heavy with a sense of finality without fault, the weight of a connection dissipating without a villain or the absence of love.