History Music / StVincent

* BookEnds: ''Strange Mercy'' and ''Daddy's Home'' draw inspiration from her father's imprisonment and release respectively.

* FaceOnTheCover: The albums ''[[https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0652637291926.jpg Actor]]'' and ''[[http://images.rapgenius.com/cf6ac70704b2ac1a8a4d62705cffbc4a.998x1000x1.jpg Marry Me]]'' simply have Annie Clark on the cover in her signature clear wide eyed gaze. ''[[https://media1.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0602537727438.jpg St. Vincent]]'' has a full-body portrait of the artist sitting on a throne, while ''[[https://sentireascoltare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Daddys-Home-st-vincent-1024x1024.jpg Daddy's Home]]'' has a sepia-tinted photo of her sitting in an armchair.

** In some live versions, the lyric in "Prince Johnny", "And bragged of when and where and who you're gonna bed next", gets switched to "...and who you're gonna fuck next."

* MoustacheDePlume

* SurrealMusicVideo: In "Digital Witness", she looks like a mental patient witnessing pseudo-military actions in a desolate, futuristic city.
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Actor'' (some pressings), ''St. Vincent'' and ''Masseduction''.

* ADateWithRosiePalms : "Birth In Reverse" has a ''very'' impactful first line.
-->What an ordinary day
-->Take out the garbage, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick masturbate]]

* {{Corpsing}}: Annie is clearly doing her best to not crack up when she has a live swan on her lap in the "New York" video but she's slightly smirking anyway.

* AdultFear: The subject of many of the songs on ''Strange Mercy'', particularly the title track.

* ContemptibleCover: ''[=MassEducation=]'', an acoustic companion album to ''Masseduction'', demonstrates on the cover that it features stripped-down versions of the songs by showing the singer, well...(May also count as VisualPun.)

* PainfulRhyme: "The Melting of the Sun" rhymes "Nina" with "subpoenaed".

* RaisedCatholic: If her musical pseudonym didn't make it obvious enough, Catholic imagery shows up regularly in her songs.

* {{Mondegreen}}: A rare written example. When St. Vincent first announced the title of ''Masseduction'', a number of people mentioned that they read it as ''Masseducation'' at first glance. Clark must have been listening, because she named the acoustic piano version of ''Masseduction'' none other than ''[=MassEducation=]''.

* ADateWithRosiePalms : "Birth In Reverse" has a ''very'' impactful first line.
-->What an ordinary day
-->Take out the garbage, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick masturbate]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: the dual-singles "Krokodil" and the Swans-esque "Grot", which compared to the rest of her work are outright brutal & menacing as well as having an extreme sense of mood-whiplash, especially with "Grot". Alas, nothing similar appeared on the more restrained ''St Vincent''.

--->"And sometimes I go, to the edge of my roof/And I think I'll jump, [[{{Yandere}} just to punish you]]."

* IncrediblyLongNote: Belts out a 17 second long one at the end of "Pay Your Way In Pain".

* ObligatoryBondageSong: With references to "horsehair whips", [[SafeWord safe words]] ("who will hear/hear your word?"), and masochism ("heal my hurt"), "Chloe In the Afternoon" can definitely be interpreted as this.

--->And if I call you from First Avenue\\

* ''Love This Giant'' (2012, with Music/DavidByrne)

In 2013, Annie was awarded the Smithsonian's American Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. At the 2015 Grammy Awards, her SelfTitledAlbum took home the award for Best Alternative Music Album.

** "Cruel": Annie is kidnapped by a motherless family, forced to be a housewife and routinely abused, until she's buried alive. The objective feel of the video and Annie's stoic demeanor make all this BlackComedy.
** "Cheerleader": Annie is a larger-than-life, hyper-realistic sculpture à la [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck Ron Mueck]] who comes to life. She tries to escape the gallery where she's kept, but ends up collapsing under her own weight.

* {{Retreaux}}: A lot of 70s-style music and video effects are in use in "Pay Your Way In Pain".

* SelfbackingVocalist: Being a one woman band, she usually does this.

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Actor'', ''St. Vincent'' and ''Masseduction''.

* TextlessAlbumCover: Started showing up with her last two records, ''St. Vincent'' and ''Masseduction''.

* FaceOnTheCover: The albums ''[[https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0652637291926.jpg Actor]]'' and ''[[http://images.rapgenius.com/cf6ac70704b2ac1a8a4d62705cffbc4a.998x1000x1.jpg Marry Me]]'' simply have Annie Clark on the cover in her signature clear wide eyed gaze. ''St. Vincent'' has a full-body portrait of the artist sitting on a throne, while ''Daddy's Home'' has a sepia-tinted photo of her sitting in an armchair.

* FaceOnTheCover: The albums ''[[https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0652637291926.jpg Actor]]'' and ''[[http://images.rapgenius.com/cf6ac70704b2ac1a8a4d62705cffbc4a.998x1000x1.jpg Marry Me]]'' simply have Annie Clark on the cover in her signature clear wide eyed gaze. ''St. Vincent'' has a full-body portrait of the artist sitting on a throne.

* StalkerWithACrush: implied with "Dilletante".

* [[Retreaux]]: A lot of 70s-style music and video effects are in use in "Pay Your Way In Pain".

* TextlessAlbumCover: Started showing up with her last two records, "St. Vincent" and "Masseduction".