Personality Crisis

“Personality Crisis” is the lead track from the New York Doll’s incredibly influential debut album, New York Dolls. Written by lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders, the song discusses the fine line between saneness and insanity, drug use and heartbreak. There are even speculations that this song is in fact about someone who is suffering from Fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. Music journalist Tony Fletcher called it an “instant glitter rock anthem”,while writer and historian David Szatmary called it an anthemic and dynamic protopunk song. In Rolling Stone magazine, Tony Glover wrote that “Personality Crisis” serves as “a jumping companion piece to classics” such as The Doors “Twentieth Century Fox” and “Cool, Calm & Collected” by the Rolling Stones. It is number 267 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (#271 on the 2010 list).

Écriture

Johnny Thunders, David Johansen

Production

Todd Rundgren

Repris par

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