If you’re a St. Vincent fan you probably remember that time back in 2015, when the artist took the stage with none other than Taylor Swift during her 1989 tour – repping a pretty slick, custom made guitar.
It was a piece that you couldn’t get anywhere in the world – until now, that is. Yep, St. Vincent is releasing that guitar as part of a signature line in collab with Ernie Ball Music Man, designed to be more complementary to the female bod – aka with room for boobs.
“I wanted to design a tool that would be ergonomic, lightweight, and sleek,” she said in an Insta announcement. “There is room for a breast, or two.”
The release date is March this year, and while we’ve known about it for a while, they’ve just announced some gorge new colours – a fab matte called Stealth Black, Tobacco Burst, Heritage Red, St Vincent Blue (which is the one she used alongside Swifty), and Polaris White, with the white version being the one St. Vincent is dubbing the ‘Thin White Duke’, a tribute to David Bowie.
“I really had total free reign,” she told Guitar World recently. “My particular guitar is based a lot on [80’s German synthpop artist] Klause Nomi’s aesthetic, the Memphis design movement, which was an [80’s] Italian design movement, those 60’s and 70’s Japanese designed guitars like the Tescos and then I went for classic car colours. I really like cars so I went for a ’67 Corvette with the colour scheme.”
A press release for the guitar sheds light on its premium vibe. Made from African mahogany and with a gunstock oil and hand-rubbed rosewood neck and fingerboard, it’s obviously kinda pricey at $2,535 a pop. You can also listen to it in action in this clip.
And, obviously, she’s a mega fan of it herself.
“I’ve been playing it every single day, putting it through its paces and writing song after song on it.”
The guitar line drops in March, and you can get the full deets and any updates via the Ernie Ball Music Man site.
Source: Guitar World.
Images: Getty, Ernie Ball Music Man.
