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アコースティックギター片手に、そのまなざしで見つめた世界を歌いあげる。そんなスザンヌ・ヴェガの代表作である。
スタイリッシュな個性派シンガーソングライターとして注目を集めた彼女の歌には、自らの背景にあるニューヨークの街角の情景が貼り込まれている。スマッシュヒットとなった<2>は、どことなくさわやかでキャッチーなサウンド＆メロディーだ。しかしそこには、深刻な社会問題である幼児虐待がテーマとして据えられている。淡々と語るようなヴォーカルが、とある現実を浮き彫りにし、世の中に一石を投じることとなった。（春野丸緒）
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Suzanne Vega emerged in the mid-'80s, and while her intimate voice and acoustic guitar brought to mind Joni Mitchell, her urbane lyrics suggested a sensibility that was as much reportorial as confessional. Vega's second album, which replaced the delicate acoustic textures of her self-titled debut with more dramatic arrangements, includes Vega's career song, "Luka," surely one of the biggest hits ever written about child abuse. But it was the energetic folk-rock production of "Luka," thick with ringing guitars and pushed by perky drums, that let the listener luxuriate in a song that suggested the darkness that can lurk behind a neighbor's door. The title tune confronts personal loneliness with a similarly powerful performance, while "Ironbound/Fancy Poultry" makes a downtown landscape sound downright homey. Well-turned tunes like "Calypso" and "Gypsy" recall the softer textures of her debut. Ironically, Vega's next big hit would come when the English production duo DNA made a dance hit out of "Tom's Diner," a nursery-rhyme tribute to a coffee shop that opens the album.
--John Milward
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