100 favourite songs: #34: "American Flag" - Cat Power

Adorned in sirens, guitars which chime like bells, and Marshall’s heart-in-mouth singing, “American Flag” is another of those songs for which I just can’t find the words — cryptic and poetic, it’s just so untouchably good. One thing I do know, though — it’s the unexpected and out of left-field yet absolutely fitting “she goes shoop, shoo-pe-doop” fashion in which it ends which really makes the song.