Vincent Gallo Yes I’m Lonely (2001)
To call American actor, filmmaker, model and musician Vincent Gallo controversial is a gross understatement. One of the more prominent scandals caused by Gallo, who appeared in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Goodfellas and once was in a band with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, unfolded after the presentation of his 2003 movie The Brown Bunny at Cannes Film Festival. The film, which contains a scene of Chloë Sevigny performing oral sex on Gallo, led to a fallout with a critic—with Gallo calling the journalist a “fat pig" and wishing him cancer. All the more surprising is Gallo’s musical output, which shows a more sensitive side of him. On his 2001 album When, which was released by electronic music powerhouse Warp Records, Gallo presented a series of fragile lullabies that sit somewhere between lo-fi jazz and folk, confessing, among other things: “Yes, I’m Lonely.”
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