The song is one of only three songs from the Unsolved project to be released in a final version.You're in my muscle, memory and you're in my bonesĪ world without you is a world I don't wanna know When asked about the cover art, Allie explained: "The imagery represents the shame and self disgust that I feel with myself when I give into weakness."īut I still want your love (want your love)Įven though they tell me I'd be better alone I tried to keep the language of the lyric conversational, because ‘old habits die hard’, the saying itself, has a jest in it’s undertone (like so many idioms do) that seems to justify/celebrate that self destructive moment when you just…give up" It’s a cruel reality when you believe you’ve overcome an addiction, just to find that it still has you by the throat. "Old Habits Die Hard’ is an Xpression of this action: laughing at your own weakness as it seduces you one more time. The day of the release, Allie explained what Old Habits Die Hard means to her: On April 20, 2017, during a YouTube livestream titled #CLXIILISTENINGPARTY, Allie X played a new version of Old Habits Die Hard that would later be included on her debut album, CollXtion II as the seventh track. The song was released on February 3 through Allie's soundcloud and made available for free download. #OHDH □Ī day later Allie then tweeted ' Have you guys been waiting for something? #OHDH'. They are themes that have been running through Schrader's work for some time.Old Habits Die Hard was first teased on Februthrough Allie's twitter with lyrics. He talks about a severed connection to the earth, and how our humanity has been lost the further we've gotten away from nature, and from ourselves. There's a scene where Narvel takes a mound of soil, holds it up to his nose and breathes it in. It's messy, but at least Schrader isn't afraid of getting his hands dirty. But Schrader, the "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" scribe whose 2017 "First Reformed" was a late career masterwork (2021's "The Card Counter" was less successful), eventually falls into a trap of male fantasy which betrays his characters' truths. It's not a problem with the performances, especially Edgerton's, whose character's discipline and tension is manifested through his strict body movements and even in his meticulous haircut. When Norma's biracial great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) arrives on the property, Narvel takes her on as his apprentice, but Maya's troubled present and Narvel's buried past collide in ways that Schrader knows are thorny and tries to weave together but isn't able to bring into full bloom. Narvel works for a wealthy Louisiana widow, Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver), who calls on him for more than just his green thumb. He has traded that life for a quiet existence - we learn in flashback he was once a hitman for a white power outfit who flipped on his crew and is now under police protection - but old habits, especially in Schrader's world, die hard. Joel Edgerton is all rigid control as Narvel Roth, an ace horticulturist with a dark, dark past that is revealed when he removes his shirt, showing his body to be a veritable mural of neo-Nazi tattoos. The seeds are there, they're tended to, but sometimes the flowers don't grow the way they're meant to. Paul Schrader's "Master Gardener" is a tightly wound thriller that never quite blossoms into something substantial.
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