125 :: Velvet Gloves and Country Clubs :: A Slow Drag with "Stella Hurt‪"‬ Slow Drag with Remedy :: An Elvis Costello Appreciation

Today’s slow drag is with “Stella Hurt,” from “Momofuku,” released in 2008. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
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References:
 
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Stella Hurt” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Stella_Hurt
 
“Stella Hurt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93e5f6py9U
 
“Chekhov’s Gun” https://screencraft.org/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chekhovs-gun/
 
“Arcadia” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arcadia#:~:text=Now%20English%20speakers%20often%20use,%2C%20simple%2C%20or%20untroubled.%22
 
Blue Birds Songs: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Bluebird/sounds#
 
“The Other End of the Telescope” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIxnYllZxk
 
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
 
Listen to the audiobook of “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7n1pN8D1Y
 
"Stella Hurt" Lyrics
You should wear your red galoshes
Walking o'er the city pride
Streets are paved with heaven's pennies
Gutters full of suicides
 
Teddy steadily fell from grace
Somewhere near Arcadia
Once she overheard a voice
she didn't hear on the radio
 
Velvet gloves and country clubs
Were never going to hold her
Ringing the necks of silly
Southern belles
Who wanted to scold her
 
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?
 
Teddy soon dropped out of sight
Turned up in another town
Changed her name for the spotlight
Singing like a blue bird in a sequin gown
 
She finally fell and married well
But I knew it wouldn't last
Reversing back into the limelight
No one ever saw her even half-plastered
 
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?
 
Then she saw those soldier boys
Throw their bonnets in the air
Self-made men would pledge their fortunes
And dream of her
And dream of her...
 
Generals in the commissary opened up a case of wine
Checked the perfume of the cork
Said "Made in 1929"...
 
They used her up, to raise morale for money
And Old Glory
Her voice was shot beyond repair 
But this is not the last act of this story
 
The night is black as cracked shellac
Abandoned in an attic
Stella is silent as the grave
Until the needle drags her through the static
 
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?