Suzanne Vega performs at the EXPO Center on April 28, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. When fans tell Suzanne Vega she was ahead of her time, she doesn’t just take it as a compliment from well-meaning devotees. The 64-year-old singer-songwriter wholeheartedly agrees.
“It was really inspiring to see all these women, all different types of music — loud women, introspective women — of all different eras in one space making a huge racket,” Vega says. “I was proud to be there.” “I might have tried it once in like 35 years. They expect it and I like to play it because they expect it,” she admits. “Especially ‘Tom’s Diner.’ It started as a very introspective a cappella song and now it’s turned into this party song where everybody gets up and dances together, so it’s great.”
Taking a cue from The Ramones and Irish quintet Fontaines D.C., Vega embraces punk rock on “Rats,” a literal musing on the whiskered vermin running amok in the streets of New York while “Flying with Angels” intimately tackles the emotional and physical labor of caregiving for someone who’s ill. “Speaker’s Corner” probes “the idea that you can just get up on your soapbox and say anything you want to and how that’s operating right now in time.
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