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A very sexualized song tells the story of someone’s adulterous father. In the story, Mangum juxtaposes vulgarity with the presupposed idea of feminine beauty and purity in an attempt to make sense of the father’s infidelity with what at least the young person perceives to be a prostitute or something similar.
By the end, the overarching theme of Anne Frank comes back into play- where Mangum evokes the idea of the purity of Anne Frank (Mangum has often talked about how she would have been his perfect woman).
In this way, Mangum presents an image of sexuality ruined for someone young who has a traumatized view of women due to his father’s unfaithfulness. The application of Anne Frank’s motif was by Mangum to question his previous suppositions. By packaging and reducing her being to a symbol, he robs both Anne Frank of human agency, and ultimately, the women his father slept with.
Mangum recorded his part of the song—the acoustic guitar and vocals—in one take.
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