Music Review // Elise Trouw "The Perfect Girl"

 

Every time Elise Trouw does something I feel like we get a little glimpse into her mind and I love that for us.  Back before the days of the internet (think when there magazines that had celebrity posters in them) teenagers used to play a game at sleepovers when they'd pick different parts of people and put them together to form the perfect person.  There is a part in an episode of "Family Guy" where this happens and I'm stuck thinking on that, but yes, this was something people really did in the 20th Century.

During the song "The Perfect Girl", Elise Trouw takes different body parts from different people, such as "Ivy's hair is as good as it gets".  The idea that people ever did this might seem strange now, but at the same time, people are literally doing it with the advances in AI and just how we going to start getting these real life sex dolls.  (Have you seen the film "Companion"?)  So what might seem like a weird thing for teens to do decades ago just seems even weirder now.

I'm not going to check whether this is true or not now, but I assume if it isn't the technology to do so is headed in the direction where you can literally go on a website and create your perfect woman using celebrities as examples.  Picking from options such as... let's just say "Sydney Sweeney's smile", so as not to get too specific.  And whether or not you feel like that is okay (i do not) it does feel like where we're headed as a society.

"The Perfect Girl" has this movement to it like we're walking through halls and the dancing doctors just seem to enforce that.   Somewhere between Death Cab For Cutie and the theme to a game show or television series, Elise Trouw just seems to somehow find what it is inside of her that makes her so special and bring that out with every single note.  I cannot wait to see what she does next.