A Whole New Interpretation: Adam Green – “Never Lift A Finger”
Adam Green
“Never Lift A Finger”
Aladdin
I LOVE Adam Green. He is a genius. I have been a huge fan of him since The Moldy Peaches, and he has always been the very best and wittiest songwriter ever. He’s currently completing his second feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin – an immersive fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, and Francesco Clemente – with Green playing Aladdin. The subversive and dazzling art-film was shot entirely on papier-mache sets. The story is a modern day version of Aladdin wherein the lamp is a 3-D printer, the Princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change, and its population prints out an analogue version of the Internet. This is no surprise, considering that Green’s lyrics have always been subversive and just out right strange. I glad his vision getting getting played out at the level in which it should.
As Adam himself says”
“You know how people are always looking for a unifying theory? I was looking for a unifying theory of artistic expression. I was trying to create some kind of fluidity within my music, art, writing. If you listen to my songs, you see they’re kind of cartoonish. I try to make songs like my paintings. When creating my movie, I approached the script like it was a song.”
This technique more than works in Aladdin. I for one cannot wait to see the whole movie and hear the complete soundtrack. Bravo.
SIDE A 1. Fix My Blues – 2:20 2. God = Humans – 0:15 3. Nature of the Clown -2:25 4. Aladdin are you Ok? – 0:04 5. Someone Else’s Plan – 2:47 6. Time Chair – 2:48 7. Never Lift a Finger – 2:27 8. Techno-Fungal Insect Species – 0:24 9. Birthday Mambo – 1:01 10. Chinese Dance Theme – 1:26 |
SIDE B 11. Me From Far Away – 2:53 12. Do Some Blow (With Me) – 1:49 13. I Only Take Cocaine – 0:09 14. Phoning in the Blues – 1:35 15. Trading Our Graves – 2:19 16. Life In a Videogame – 2:32 17. No Masterpiece Policy – 0:05 18. Interested in Music – 1:16 19. What is Dying Like – 0:55 |
