{"id":454449,"date":"2026-03-03T00:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:47:12","slug":"brat-star-margot-tenenbaum-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454449\/","title":{"rendered":"Brat Star: \u201cMargot Tenenbaum\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can never know Margot Tenenbaum. Played at a glacial, glamorous remove by Gwyneth Paltrow in Wes Anderson\u2019s The Royal Tenenbaums, she is, in her own way, trapped in the box<\/a>. On her new single\u2014a piano ballad of dubious sincerity\u2014Canadian DJ and songwriter Brat Star invokes Paltrow\u2019s greatest role as one-third of a holy trinity of disaffection. \u201cLonely like Eleanor Rigby, still cutting people off,\u201d she sing-raps, sounding a bit like Frankie Cosmos<\/a>\u2019 Greta Kline and a bit more like SNL cast member Jane Wickline. \u201cLike Edward Scissorhandy, yeah her friends have it rough.\u201d Whether those are good lyrics is almost beside the point; they\u2019ve Stockholm syndromed their way into my heart.<\/p>\n

The influence of Lana Del Rey<\/a> goes without saying\u2014in a chirped \u201choney!\u201d, some blithe street rap posturing (\u201cHer exes were crazy, she shot them with uzis, said they were fugazi\u201d), and the transmutation of cultural icons into personal totems. The first half of \u201cMargot Tenenbaum\u201d is a M\u00f6bius strip of chopped orchestral crescendos and bass blips courtesy of Toronto-based producer Loukeman<\/a>. Then the clock starts ticking. Anderson\u2019s early films are still his best because their artifice inevitably gives way to sentiment. \u201cThey should teach this in school\/How to finally be cool\/With just doing you,\u201d Brat Star laments. She\u2019s further along than most of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can never know Margot Tenenbaum. Played at a glacial, glamorous remove by Gwyneth Paltrow in Wes Anderson\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,59113,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-454449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-tracks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}