Juxtapoz Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Juxtapoz MagazineInstagram)「"I'll take you out, boyyy, HEY!" Ah, Karen O was a breath of fresh air in that early "The" band revival of the early 00s. Sure, the Strokes, the Vines and the Hives all brought some rock revival energy to a depleted scene. But that voice, scream and raw art-punk energy of @KO and @YeahYeahYeahs felt like a much-needed outlier. Of course, they were part of this scene, but a female lead with these vocals and the musicianship of Nick Zinner and Brian Chase felt like your art school friends who had come across a great sound and ran with it. They were good. Karen O had some attitude. Where the other bands of that NYC era were led by 1970s-type male singers, Karen O was her own thing. And she declared it on the opening track, "Rich," she was going to define her thing. • For their 2003 debut Fever To Tell, Karen O and the band enlisted their friend Cody Critcheloe (@ssion_official) to recreate a scene where layers and layers of punk flyers had been left behind, almost a cut-n-paste 'zine cover aesthetic. Critcheloe would even tell @diffuserfm years later than Karen O had sent him Wild Style to watch to get the look right for Fever To Tell. Critcheloe: "She was really into how, when you go on the subway or whatnot, there’s tons of flyers on top of one another, and things get peeled away so there’s all these layers. It looks, like, beautiful and trashy – it’s that feeling of New York." The cover is messy, punk but with purpose. They looked almost like lowbrow superheroes, which made it perfect for their sound. • Many of us will turn to the songs "Maps," as not only the key track of the album but perhaps that era of indie rock. And it stands out on Fever To Tell as an incredibly honest respite. (Hell it stands out as a respite to the entire 1999—2005 era.) The video has 54m views on YouTube to date, clearly something that resonated beyond the clubs and underground scenes depicted on the album's cover. It felt like a graduation song, moving on from DIY into something more universal. “Maps” continues to be Yeah Yeah Yeahs magnum opus, and Fever To Tell, like it’s cover, is the loud, beautiful garage-punk collage from 3 art school kids. #juxtapozsoundandvision」6月10日 0時35分