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Grace Petrie (Music)

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Grace Petrie is a British musician, a folk singer-songwriter from Leicester. Petrie is a feminist, a lesbian and strongly left-wing, and the her music often includes related themes.
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Title Drop
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There's No Such Thing as a Protest Singer ends with the Title Drop song, "I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist". The EP cover is created in the style of a Guardian front page and the lyrics lament that the left-wing newspaper believes protest songs ended when the mines closed, decades ago. There's a final swipe at the NME as well.
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: "The Best Country In The World" is a scathing attack on the austerity, profiteering, corruption and pollution of post-Brexit Britain.
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Beautiful All Along
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Beautiful All Along: Pointedly subverted in the video for "Black Tie", where Grace suffers through a makeover to give her a traditional feminine look while the lyrics talk about how people won't be trapped by a "narrow view of gender".
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Unrequited Love Lasts Forever
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Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: The singer of "Coldwaterproofjacket" is clear that she's given her heart away and will "wait forever", even if her beloved never returns her affection. The singer of "The Last Man on Earth" is conscious that she'll always be there as her female friend's fallback for company and emotional support ("darling, don't you know you'll never lose me"), and will even be there to plan the hen night and support her wedding to the "least worst" male option, but Incompatible Orientation means it will always be unrequited.
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Incompatible Orientation
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The singer of "The Last Man on Earth" is conscious that she'll always be there as her female friend's fallback for company and emotional support ("darling, don't you know you'll never lose me"), and will even be there to plan the hen night and support her wedding to the "least worst" male option, but Incompatible Orientation means it will always be unrequited.
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Mouthing the Profanity
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Mouthing the Profanity: In the video for "The House Always Wins" Grace mouths "What the fuck?" to camera as the Card Sharp's tricks grow more obvious.
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Card Sharp
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Card Sharp: "The House Always Wins" uses a crooked casino as a metaphor for the British politicians behind Brexit. The video shows Grace across the table from a gleefully sinister dealer who's using sleight of hand and card tricks to cheat.
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Flipping the Table
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Flipping the Table: Near the end of the video for "The House Always Wins", Grace finally loses patience with the Card Sharp she's facing and angrily overturns the table they're sitting at.
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Muse Abuse
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Muse Abuse: "No Woman Ever Wants To Be A Muse" is a song about how artists write about the women in their lives and the experience is "to be dragged over hot coals, to be slandered, to be used".
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Take That!
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Take That!: There's No Such Thing as a Protest Singer ends with the Title Drop song, "I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist". The EP cover is created in the style of a Guardian front page and the lyrics lament that the left-wing newspaper believes protest songs ended when the mines closed, decades ago. There's a final swipe at the NME as well. "Black Tie" rails against transphobia and the "bigotry and fear / that's uniting Piers Morgan and Germaine Greer".
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A cappella
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A Cappella: "Galway" is an a Cappella Self-Deprecation song about her first show in Galway, with a tiny, if enthusiastic, audience.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: "The Last Man on Earth", a song about unrequited love and Incompatible Orientation, throws in a reference to Brooklyn Nine-Nine's lead characters ("and you can be my Santiago if I can't be your Perralta").
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: "Coldwaterproofjacket" opens with a statement that she was "born too late to make a claim to any half-decent band names", and that it was "too much to hope there'd be any good tunes left". "Galway" is a song about a show in Galway with a tiny audience, a reminder that success is fragile. "Nobody Knows That I'm A Fraud" is a whole song in this vein, listing all the reasons why the singer's not quite good enough, or genuine enough, at least in her own eyes.
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Subdued Section
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Subdued Section: The last minute of "The Losing Side" repeats the chorus with more voices in the background, building up the energy — and then drops back to A Cappella as Grace sings alone for the last ten seconds or so.
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The Lost Lenore
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The Lost Lenore: The narrator of "This House" lives in the house they shared with a man who's passed away, surrounded by memories and his carefully tended possessions, mourning the things they never said. Despite protestations that "it's not love / Oh, this thing I'm dying of", they still focus on "the ways that he was mine". Petrie's stated that the narrator is male and the song was inspired by two men who lived together, not quite a couple, and never quite resolved what they were to each other before one passed away.
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