Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Stella Donnelly - "Beware of the Dogs" from the 2019 album Beware of the Dogs on Secretly Canadian.

Following the breakout success of her debut EP Thrush Metal, Australian artist Stella Donnelly knew she wanted to use her first full-length, Beware of the Dogs, to address larger issues in the world. "My generation had this 'enough is enough' kind of feeling and a lot of the women I was working with were finding their ways of expressing that," she told Under the Radar last year. "Whether it was my friends who were artists, or in punk bands, or were poets, it just felt like I was part of a community that was speaking out at that moment."

With the title track of the album, Donnelly sums it up, telling DIY Magazine:

This song is about the historic and continuing racism that flows through the Australian media and government. As a white Australian I am extremely privileged to have the platform that I do and whilst I occupy this space that in my opinion is far too often occupied by white people, I am going to use it to speak up.

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0:00.0	The This street is haunted like a beast that doesn't know its face is frightening to behold all the painted little nose
0:45.0	nose
0:47.0	smiling in a light
0:51.0	trying to get your vote.
0:55.0	There's an architect setting fire to her house,
1:02.0	all the plans were there,
1:05.0	but they built it inside out.
1:08.0	No one really enjoy what the sign told them they would. Beware of the dogs! Beware of the dogs!
1:17.0	Beware of the dogs! Oh My heart
1:52.0	copied on the stairs, everyone in bed. Their eyes are everyone in bed. Their eyes are wide as clouds next door.
2:01.0	Sounds like bloody roll. Sounds like bloody war.
2:03.0	Waiting for the phone.
2:07.0	Telling us to run.
2:11.0	Telling us to run.
2:14.0	There's an architect setting fire to a house
2:18.0	setting fire to a house.
2:21.0	All the plans were there but they built it inside out no one will
2:29.4	endure what the site told them they would. Beware of the dogs. Beware of the dogs. There's no parliament worthy of this countryside all these pious fox taking from the dining night.
2:53.0	Now we'll all enjoy what the sign told us we would.
2:59.0	Beware of the dogs! Beware of the dogs. Oh, yeah. You're here.

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