Especially Me

Parker's song of not belonging, the heart of C'mon and a fixture of every later tour.
Low, from C'mon (2011)

Written by
Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk
Released
12 April 2011
Length
5:30
Album
C'mon

Play on hypersongs

The fifth track on C'mon is credited to Parker and Sparhawk, and Parker sings it. Stereogum named her as its writer. It premiered on Pitchfork on 25 March 2011, a few weeks before the album. David Safar of The Current heard Parker singing about uncertainty over where people belong, and Drowned in Sound called it a poignant lament of disconnection, the more dramatic of her two leads on the first half, and reported that Sparhawk saw it as the record's anchor. PopMatters' Ian Mathers singled out how beautiful and compassionate her voice is on it.

Its video, the second from C'mon after Try to Sleep, was directed by Phil Harder and follows Parker on the New York subway, shot in fast-forward. The song was used in Orange Is the New Black in 2017, in the fifth-season episode Tied to the Tracks.

Live

Low first played it at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne in October 2010, before the album was out, and kept it to the end: setlist.fm counts 265 performances, the fifth most of any Low song, the last at the High Noon Saloon in Madison in July 2022. The upload in the hypersongs web is Sub Pop's official video, which uses the shorter radio edit of the album track.

On stage

Covers and versions

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Sources

  1. Low: Especially Me, Stereogum (2011-03-25)
  2. Review: Low, C'mon, The Current (2011-05-02)
  3. Low: C'mon, Drowned in Sound (2011)
  4. Low: Especially Me, HIP Video Promo (2011)
  5. Especially Me: song statistics, setlist.fm