Stella The Artist by David Gray

Album: Draw The Line (2009)

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Gray said of this punchy song in publicity materials: "It's fun basically. It just became this wall of sound. And the lyrics are pretty much the first things that came into my head. It's me singing to the muse. 'Stella' is the giver of wherever all this stuff comes from."

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Mason from MinnesotaThis might be a shot in the dark, but “Stella Artois” is the name of a popular brand of pilsner beer, originally from Belgium. At least in print, it visually looks similar to the phrase “Stella the Artist”. I don’t know if David Gray is a beer drinker or not, but I could see why someone might refer to beer as a “muse” or consider it an aid to creativity. People become more uninhibited when they drink, after all. And lines like “I swim in a sea of psychotic puke” makes more sense if alcohol is involved, as it could be referring to a hangover. I don’t even drink, for medical reasons, but if I had to guess what this song is about, that would be my theory.

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