Gaslighting Abbie
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"Gaslighting Abbie" is the first track on Steely Dan
's 2000
Grammy Award
-winning album Two Against Nature
. The song is about a husband and his mistress plotting to drive his wife crazy.
is derived from the film Gaslight (1940
and 1944
) in which a scheming husband tries to drive his wife insane by, among other things, manipulating the gaslight in their home.
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
's 2000
2000 in music
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Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning album Two Against Nature
Two Against Nature
Two Against Nature is the eighth album by Steely Dan, released in 2000. The album won the group four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, and marked the first Steely Dan studio album in 20 years, following 1980's Gaucho. It has been certified 2x platinum in the US.Two Against Nature marked...
. The song is about a husband and his mistress plotting to drive his wife crazy.
Explanation of the title
The term gaslightingGaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory and perception...
is derived from the film Gaslight (1940
Gaslight (1940 film)
Gaslight is a 1940 film directed by Thorold Dickinson, based on Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light which stars Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, and Frank Pettingell...
and 1944
Gaslight (1944 film)
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play, Gas Light, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in the United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier...
) in which a scheming husband tries to drive his wife insane by, among other things, manipulating the gaslight in their home.