Ruby Gill – You Should Do This for a Living
File this one under songs like incisors cos it comes with a sharpness of intent that’ll drive through muscle and bone. She may’ve only release a trio of songs but Ruby already feels like one of those essential lyricists who I’ll be emotionally grappling with for years to come. This one hits me with the despondency of Stella Donnelly’s Boys Will Be Boys though it errs a little closer to the side of systemic music industry manhood than it does the crushing physicality of BWBB. That said, it’s all part of the one thing and Ruby’s anecdotal storytelling is a partnership of hearbreaking and beautiful. “I can’t afford therapy with the money they pay us to sing songs” is just about enough to level you on paper before you feel the influence of Ruby’s vocal. Rarely do you get the songwriting and the vocal both but well, here we are.
On most records a backing choir that features the likes of Angie McMahon, Maple Glider and more would be the headline but it’s hard to center that narrative when Ruby herself has so much more at play. No doubt those artists are on the song for that very reason. One hell of a song.
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