I don't really get it either,
the whole rapt attention cult-like fascination thing.

The French phrase diseuse à voix
for certain cabaret artistes
is pretty close to what she is doing,
and if you look back at her youth, decades ago,
she was in fact connected to
the French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg

...no, she was not one of his "muses"
or ladies that moved in with him,
but he wanted her to sing his songs
and she may have recorded one
called Hier et Demain.


You may or may not be aware that
Marianne Faithful was stricken with COVID-19 and survived,
thanks to being treated in hospital before it was too late.
However, her producer,
Hal Willmer, succcumbed to COVID-19 last year.

So her latest release (don't know if it's out yet),
"She Walks in Beauty",
was produced by someone else.
Already there is a published interview at
Mojo magazine
in aid of the album.