1. A popular indie pop ba… Read Full Bio ↴There are several artists which use this name:
1. A popular indie pop band from Canada
2. A rock band from the United Kingdom featuring Syd Barrett
3. A rock band from Australia
4. A country rock band from Australia
For the Japanese psychedelic group, please see The Stars
1. Stars is a Canadian indie pop band signed to the Arts & Crafts label. Originally formed in Toronto in 1998 by vocalist Torquil Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman, the band relocated to New York City and then subsequently to Montreal. The band also includes singer-guitarist Amy Millan and bassist Evan Cranley. Drummer Pat McGee has toured with the band for years, despite not appearing on their albums until the release of Set Yourself On Fire.
The band’s breakthrough single was Ageless Beauty, from their 2004 album Set Yourself on Fire. While released to minimal fanfare in Canada in October of 2004, Set Yourself on Fire slowly gained a strong following and critical praise soon after its 8 March 2005 U.S. release.
Millan, Campbell and Cranley are also members of the indie band Broken Social Scene; Seligman, although uncredited, has contributed to past Broken Social Scene albums. Millan has since embarked on a solo career, releasing a record entitled Honey From the Tombs in July 2006. Campbell has a side-project with friend Chris Dumont entitled Memphis; their latest album, A Little Place In the Wilderness, was released in August 2006.
On their website, they have noted that their name was chosen, by coincidence, without prior knowledge of the short-lived project by Syd Barrett. They have cited a wide variety of musical likes and influences ranging from Berlioz to Outkast, citing among others Barrett, Paddy McAloon, New Order, The Smiths, Brian Wilson and Momus. They covered The Smiths’ This Charming Man on 2001’s Nightsongs and The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York in 2005. Other indie artists have been guest collaborators on many of their tracks, especially for an early period including the release of their first LP.
2. The Stars is a Japanese psychedelic rock band. It consists of ex-members of the legendary band White Heaven including Michio Kurihara (Ghost, Boris, Ai Aso) on guitar and You Ishihara on vocals. For more information see The Stars.
3. Stars, a short-lived British band in 1972. Its members were Syd Barrett on guitar, Twink on drums, and Jack Monck (of Delivery) on bass. They played three live concerts in Cambridge before Barrett left the group, thus (essentially) ending it. Shortly thereafter Syd Barrett left music altogether and began a life in seclusion, and this project is sometimes seen as the so called 'straw that broke the camel's back'. Recordings of their performances remain lost, though it has been attested that all three performances contained early Pink Floyd songs and different versions of tracks from Barrett's 1970 solo album The Madcap Laughs. It has also been stated in multiple accounts that in each show Barrett entered one of his somewhat trademark catatonic trances, the worst coming in their second concert, where Barrett became almost completely frozen and had to be carried off stage. This was not unusual, having happened many times while Syd was still a member of Pink Floyd.
According to Twink, the band ended when Barrett approached him in the street, carrying a scathing review of their third concert. He waved the paper in Twink's face and said, essentially, "That's it."
4. Stars, an Australian country rock band from the late 1970s, most noted for the songs 'Mighty Rock' and 'Look After Yourself'. The band's main songwriter, Andy Durant, died tragically from cancer at age 25, marking the demise of the band. Fellow band members and many other luminaries in the Australian music scene at the time including Jimmy Barnes and Renee Geyer played a memorial concert, the Andy Durant Memorial Concert, to raise money for cancer research in mid-1980.
Eevator Love Letter
Stars Lyrics
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My heels are high, my eyes cast low
Cause I don't know how to love
I take it out on my good friends
But the worst stays in
Or where would I begin?
My office glows all night long
Elevator, elevator, take me home
I'm so hard for the rich girl
Her heels so high and my hopes so low
Cause I don't know how to love
I'll take her home after midnight
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
Of how we'll fall in love by the morning
I don't think she'll know
That I'm saying goodbye..
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator, take me home
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator, take me home
Don't go!
Say you'll stay!
Spend a lazy Sunday in my arms
I won't take anything away
Don't go!
Say you'll stay!
Spend a lazy Sunday in my arms
Don't take anything away
In Stars's song "Elevator Love Letter," the singer is obsessed with a rich girl, but admits he doesn't know how to love. He takes his frustrations out on his friends, but the worst of it stays inside him. The singer's office glows all night long, a symbol of his workaholic tendencies and his inability to connect with others. He wants the elevator to take him home, to find some kind of escape from his lonely life.
Throughout the song, the singer sounds somewhat desperate, offering to take the rich girl home and promising to lie to her about their future. He seems to know that this won't end well, evidenced by the line "I don't think she'll know that I'm saying goodbye." The repetition of the phrase "elevator, elevator, take me home" serves as a refrain, emphasizing the singer's desire to escape his current circumstances.
Overall, "Elevator Love Letter" is a poignant examination of loneliness and longing. The singer yearns for a connection with the rich girl, but he doesn't know how to make that happen. Instead, he's stuck in a cycle of work and frustration, desperate for something to change.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm so hard for a rich girl
I am infatuated with a wealthy girl
My heels are high, my eyes cast low
I embody the appearance of somebody with high social status, but I am insecure inside
Cause I don't know how to love
I struggle to express and understand romantic love
I take it out on my good friends
I project my feelings of frustration and confusion onto my close friends
But the worst stays in, or where would I begin?
But I continue to harbor my deep-seated emotions because addressing them is daunting
My office glows all night long
I work long, unrewarding hours in a highly fluorescent-lit office space
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
It's a highly powerful and stressful environment which drains me to a great extent
Elevator, elevator, take me home
I yearn for the sanctuary of my home away from the work environment which torments me
Her heels so high and my hopes so low
I am intimidated by how impressive the rich girl appears, making my aspirations to be with her seem futile
I'll take her home after midnight
I plan to have a romantic encounter with the rich girl when it gets dark
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
If she is receptive to my advances, I will manipulate her by being dishonest
Of how we'll fall in love by the morning
I will deceive her into thinking we have a future together
I don't think she'll know that I'm saying goodbye
I plan to abandon her once I have achieved my goals
Don't go! Say you'll stay!
I am emotionally dependent on her presence and craving for her to remain by my side
Spend a lazy Sunday in my arms
I desire an enjoyable, relaxing day of quality time with her
I won't take anything away
I promise not to ruin the moment or ask for anything more from her
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Amy E Millan, Christopher Allen Seligman, Evan Whitney Cranley, Torquil John Campbell
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