Gigantic

by

Pixies

Album: Surfer Rosa      Released: 1988

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This song is about an interracial relationship between a black male and white female.

This was written and sung by Kim Deal, who said she took inspiration from a 1986 Bruce Beresford movie, Crimes Of The Heart. In the film, Sissy Spacek plays a married woman who falls in love with a black teenager.

In the October, 1997 issue of Select magazine, Black Francis said of this song: "A good chord progression, very Lou Reed influenced. I'd had the word 'Gigantic' in my mind just because the chord progression seemed very big to me." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above)

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Kim Deal sang the song because she wrote it, as stated above. And anyway Black Francis (er.. Frank Black is it now?) sang in the background.
- Jenny, Streamwood, IL

I heard that she used "gigantic" becuase of the black guy (I'm not going to paint the picture), glad to hear otherwise... it was freaking me out.
- Patty, China Town, United Kingdom

The best song by far on the album 'Wave Of Mutilation'. But why did the woman sing not the man?
- Andy, Norwich, England

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