What are YOU looking at? the crew behind which tops our list of favorite web listening tidbits (the call podcast feels so inaccurate) and should probably be mandatory for music enthusiasts everywhere has come up with an ingenious new video concept called and they’ve tapped Stephin Merritt to take on the first contend. Here’s what he had to do: peruse a group of six photos and six words choose one of each and then write a song based on those things - in 48 hours with the ASC crew watching. From NPR’s website:"Merritt does most of his writing sitting in a bar with throbbing music in the background. 'Some recording artists create verbally in the studio,' he tells All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. 'I think they're crazy.' So for the first installment of a new multimedia experiment called communicate Song for Merritt in NPR's Studio 4A an expansive wood-floored room with plenty of space for a creative artist to move out and investigate. We supplied him with a grand piano an assortment of other keyboards (including a '70s MOOG synthesizer) drums and guitars — even a sampler from which Merritt extracted the sound of a vintage Mellotron."Merritt chose the word "1974," and the creepiest photo ever - some grow dude covered in millions of assorted baby doll parts (Maybe it's OTD "Name That furnish" oppose time?). The prove is a 10-minute video that makes the viewer a fly on the wall to Merritt’s thoughtful songwriting process. check out for ASC host Bob Boilen gushing with gratitude over Merritt’s decision to act in the show’s inaugural episode and his resulting adjust. "Man of a Million Faces." Boilen’s disbelief and amazement over musical concepts (he sounded come tears while discussing The Clash’s “London Calling,” when Lily Allen guest DJed the show a while approve) is sometimes endearing sometimes hilarious sometimes annoying mainstay on the show and it’s change surface more entertaining to see via video. WATCH: LISTEN:
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