Useless Magic: An Exploration of Lyrics and Poetry

maria teresa: Cuando lo compré tenía miedo de que no fuese a llegar en buen estado y llegó perfecto.

United States on Oct 03, 2023

Christina StrigasChristina Strigas: The media could not be loaded.  Florence is not only a phenomenal singer but above all she is a poet first. If you love her you must buy this book now. A treasure.

Canada on Sep 24, 2023

Wendy: This was a gift for my daughter and she adores this book. Very well made.

United States on Jul 26, 2023

Sophie: Preciosa edición. La cubierta está forrada en tela, cosa que no esperaba. El papel es gustoso y tiene buen gramaje. Muy contenta.

Spain on May 31, 2023

Vanessa: I'm disappointed because I thought we would have a more expansive originally, never been seen before section for poetry. If you want a gorgeous coffee book of every song she's written before her recent album, Dance Fever, this is for you. But I really, really wanted more poetry. Otherwise, the artwork is BEAUTIFUL and you won't dislike it unless you hoped for a longer section of new poems.

United States on Mar 31, 2023

Moth: It was absolutely gorgeous. I'm a huge fan of Florence and the Machine and I loved this book so much. Like several other people said it is just a collection of lyrics and photos with some poetry but I thought it was fantastic.

United States on Dec 21, 2022

Ines: I'm super happy with the book, so no complains about that.
But I paid extra money to have it delivered the following day to take it to a concert with me, and it took them a total of 3 days to deliver, which made it late for the concert.
They marked is as "failed delivery" which is false because i was at home all day and no one rang the bell, so I'm pretty disappointed at the waste of money.

Netherlands on Jul 06, 2022

TomTom: OMG, was ist das für ein super Buch!..

Ich bin ein großer Florence Welch (And the machine) Fan und musste dieses Buch haben. Einfach nur aus Neugierde.

Der Kauf für dieses Buch hat sich 1000% gelohnt. Es ist so schön, aber jetzt mal über das Buch :)

Das Buch kam verschweißt bei mir an. Es hat eine Weinrote Farbe und alles was geschrieben ist, ist in goldener Schrift in den Deckel ‚graviert’ würde ich mal so sagen. Das Buch ist Hardcover, dick und schwer. Auf dem Cover ist ein rotes Herz. Wie man das auch bei meinen Fotos sieht. Das Herz ist leider ein Sticker, der nur draufgeklebt wurde, ging bei mir schon leicht los, was man auf dem 3ten Foto sehen kann.

Das Buch ist sehr einfach unterteilt. Es geht um ihre Alben, vom ersten bis zum Letzen Album.

Das Buch ist (leider) auf Englisch, so dass ich vieles nicht verstehe, weil Lyrics von den Songs drin sind und auch Erklärungen. Aber ich mache mir einfach die Mühe, die Wörter nachzuschlagen und mit dem Bleistift dabei zu schreiben.

Das Buch ist so super gemacht. Ich liebe schon die erste Seite, das ist ein sehr schönes Muster. Sieht man auf dem zweitletzten Bild. Das Buch besteht...

Germany on Oct 29, 2018

Juliano Zaffino: “THEN LIGHTNING STRUCK / NOW I’M TOTALLY F****D.” I had the supreme joy of reading Florence Welch’s lyrics and poetry, ‘Useless Magic’, a couple of days early. What a monumental gift this book is. The lyrics-by-album serve as a retrospective, a chronology of the artist’s growth over ten years; lyrics which (excepting High As Hope) have been subjective and disputed. Laid out on the page there is no denying the sheer power and poetry of Florence’s song-writing; never does a lyric become a dead thing, flattened to the printed page. And what a joy to read through and discover new meanings. The book is stunningly packaged, complete with photographs and artwork, of/by her and her influences, as well as sketches/notes from her notebooks over the years, seeds planted to bloom much later. But it is the poetry I was most excited for, and most enjoyed. Though only sixteen poems in all, it feels like plenty, with each poem its own marvel, Florence’s voice confident and contemplative. In ‘Oh You’re A Real Man’, a verse in ‘Patricia’ is altered to ask “how many have to die / so that you can feel loved?”, while in ‘Rage’ Florence mourns the “age of rage”...

United Kingdom on Sep 17, 2018

Lorraine ReneeLorraine Renee: Let me start by saying: I'm a huge Florence fan. I've had this book an hour and I've read all of it. 95% of it is song lyrics-- JUST song lyrics-- interspersed with a few polaroids and doodles. There's no commentary on anything, if that's what you're hoping for.

The only section that will include anything you haven't seen is the last sliver of the book, "poetry". Florence writes poems on the occasion that she can't fit something into a song. Some of them are ok. Some of them are... not great. More doodles and hotel notepad images follow.

Now, there is one benefit to having everything right in front of you: you finally get a big, cohesive picture of what this woman has been screaming about for a decade. She has a bad history of relationships. She's seems to be a very toxic person. You can see how this affects her as an artist (and I hope she's getting help and getting better). Her lyrics move from being extremely metaphoric to much more literal across her albums and tell a story of her becoming more open with herself. You don't need the book for this, of course, because the music has been there the whole time. The book just makes the vision a little clearer,...

United States on Jul 10, 2018