At Portishead, Beth Gibbons once sang about vain passion, countless teenagers indulged in great feelings to her sound and had sex for the first time. On her new album, the singer goes even deeper.
Music you loved during your adolescence stays with you forever. It doesn’t matter if you like her later or if you act like she embarrasses you. No matter whether you stay on it forever: it is engraved in your neural pathways.
This has even been scientifically proven; there are studies on this. There are no studies on how many teenagers and young adults in the 1990s dreamed of having sex to the music of Portishead. There must have been a few, because the pathos of the delayed beats conjured up a cool intimacy, put the taste of loneliness and drama and closeness on your lips, and above it all, Beth Gibbons’ voice trembled.