Welcome to Song & Story, where I follow the feeling I get when a song and a story turn out to be doing the same thing. Each installment pairs a song with a piece of writing and looks closely at where the two artists evoke the same emotion or reach it through completely different means.
Song & Story Vol. 5: Keyed x Sula
Brandy cheekily keys her ex’s car. Morrison cheekily keys death.
Song & Story Vol. 4: Inferno x Kin
What becomes possible when an artist embraces the most basic building blocks of their craft?
Song & Story Vol. 3: Fireflies x Between Two Kingdoms
This one’s tender: in which a song about a dream you can’t rest from, and a memoir about mortality, reveal they’re built the same way.
Song & Story Vol. 2: Autumn Is A Killer x Our Missing Hearts
While Sarah Defne Gray breaks to trap you in her song “Autumn is a Killer”, Celeste Ng refuses to break to trap you in her novel “Our Missing Hearts”. Both crush your heart to pieces while compelling you to watch it happen.
Song & Story Vol. 1: Worry About You x The Hollow
In the worlds of singer Chloe Bailey’s “Worry About You” and writer ‘Pemi Aguda’s “The Hollow”, safety is an illusion, and collapse is lurking at the bottom.