Just one listen to Adam Green & Binki Shapiro is enough to become enchanted… Read Full Bio ↴Just one listen to Adam Green & Binki Shapiro is enough to become enchanted. With deceptively pretty arrangements that echo filigreed late-sixties folk-pop and an easygoing rapport between singers, this duets collaboration may seem like the perfect accompaniment to a sunny summer’s day, Southern-California style. But it works even better as a comforting soundtrack at the end of a dark, lonely night in the big city. The atmosphere the pair conjures up with strummed guitars and discreet layers of synths indeed suggests romantic possibility, but the lyrics are more sweetly melancholic, gently but candidly addressing betrayal, incipient heartbreak, and conjugal discord. It’s an approach that makes for compelling repeated listening, as the intimate dramas reveal themselves, and it’s one that surprised even Green and Shapiro as their debut album together began to take shape.
On their own, Green and Shapiro have long been notable figures among indie-pop fans, cherished for their off-kilter sensibility (him) and elegantly quirky style (her). As part of New York City’s “anti-folk” scene at the end of the nineties, Adam Green first came to prominence as one-half of Moldy Peaches, his duo with Kimya Dawson that enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the 2007 indie film Juno.
On their own, Green and Shapiro have long been notable figures among indie-pop fans, cherished for their off-kilter sensibility (him) and elegantly quirky style (her). As part of New York City’s “anti-folk” scene at the end of the nineties, Adam Green first came to prominence as one-half of Moldy Peaches, his duo with Kimya Dawson that enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the 2007 indie film Juno.
What's the Reward?
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro Lyrics
What's the reward for being brave all the time?
What's the reward? Do you always miss the point?
Even my Lolitas are growing up
You gave me life but you can't take it away
You found new ways to be disappointed all day
Ridden with the burden of a confident man
What's it like? That feeling to lose some fans?
Pointing ideas that have already been used
You only know how to romanticize old news
Couldn't last forever, my shadow's past
In this case the woman didn't love him back
I'm finally in full blossom
Finally hit rock bottom
Let go of all you don't need
Couldn't last forever
Not everything's what it seems
In this case the woman didn't love him back
What's the reward? Do you always miss the point?
Even my Lolitas are growing up
You gave me life but you can't take it away
You found new ways to be disappointed all day
Ridden with the burden of a confident man
What's it like? That feeling to lose some fans?
Pointing ideas that have already been used
Couldn't last forever, my shadow's past
In this case the woman didn't love him back
I'm finally in full blossom
Finally hit rock bottom
Let go of all you don't need
Couldn't last forever
Not everything's what it seems
In this case the woman didn't love him back
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: ADAM GREEN, JORDANA SHAPIRO
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