St. Vincent Delivers Visceral ‘Flea’ to ‘Tonight Show’

St. Vincent brought the pummeling desire of “Flea” — the track from her first self-produced record, All Born Screaming — to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday.

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Draped in red light and decked in a tweed skirt-suit, the rock iconoclast opened with the teasing verse “I’m just like a hungry little flea/Jumping on somebody’s warm body/When you start to itch and scratch and scream/Once I’m in, you can’t get rid of me,” before launching into the track’s chaotic chorus: “Drip you in diamonds/Pour you in cream/You will be mine for eternity.”

St. Vincent released All Born Screaming in April, collaborating with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, Stella Mogzawa, David Ralicke, and Cate Le Bon. (Grohl plays drums and Meldal-Johnsen plays bass on “Flea”.)

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In a review of her seventh album, Rolling Stone ‘s Jon Dolan called the LP “more primal than conceptual,” and “a refreshing change-up among St. Vincent albums.” Dolan added, “Several songs bring to mind the industrial bloodlettings of Nine Inch Nails, the self-emptying operatic art-goth grind of Tori Amos’ 1998 album From the Choir Girl Hotel , the bludgeoning tumult of Nirvana.”

When speaking to Rolling Stone about her latest work, St. Vincent said, “I was going to make a record called All Born Screaming since I was 23,” adding, “But I just wasn’t ready. I wasn’t really worthy of the title, ’cause you have to live a lot to be worthy of a title that really says it all. It’s the beauty, it’s the brutality, and it’s all part of the same continuum.”

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