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Track: Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Remastered)

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Name: The Magnetic Fields
Spotify Genres: anti-folk
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The Magnetic Fields (named after the [a945713] novel Les Champs Magnétiques) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt. He is the group's primary songwriter, producer and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The Magnetic Fields is essentially a vehicle for Merritt's songwriting, along with various side-projects, such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies. While the particular musical style of the band is usually as malleable as Merritt's songwriting, its songs are commonly attributed to pop genres and subgenres: synthpop, indie pop, and noise pop. The band is often also cited as being recognizable by Merritt's lyrics, often about love and often with irregular or neutral gender roles, that are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.

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Release: The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees
Year: 2016
Genres: Electronic, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Indie Pop

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LYRICS

you held me upside-down
til I couldn't breathe anymore
then you held me like a baby
television, like wine
and cigarettes, like grains of sand
and raspberry schnapps, like a thousand sunsets

the boys talk like they own the world
the women keep their stupid diaries
but suddenly there's a tidal wave
and everything is sucked out to sea

there were probably birds outside our little room
I don't remember anything but you

we must have been the butt
of all the jokes in the world
for trying to live like pippi longstocking