St. Vincent is always creating in one way or another, which is why she’s, in her words, never satisfied. She picked up DJing in June and spun her first live set by September; reimagined her 2017 knockout MASSEDUCTION as a stripped down, piano-driven album called MassEducation this October; started producing for other artists as a part of some as-yet-unannounced collaborations; and is gearing up for her feature-length directorial debut, in which she’ll bring a woman-led version of Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray to the screen.
In a recent interview, Vincent said “The best thing I’m going to do is the next thing I do,” just a few days before she picked up two Grammy nominations for MASSEDUCTION. But while she has a few more plans on the books for 2019, including a Febuary 14 performance at Lincoln Center as part of its American Songbook series, what that next, best thing will be in her own music is open-ended. “You know when you hear it,” she says. “When a ghost walks through the room or when you sing a certain line and it makes you all weepy. That’s when you know that something is special.”
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