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I know we are much more interesting people than this rec in here.
But hear me out: itās revolutionary to listen objectively to something and decide yourself if YOU like it or not.
Being a woman and an artist are the biggest two things TS have in common, so that experience is enough for me to find comfort in shit he says.
You donāt need to be a Swiftie, but you also donāt need to hate on something just because itās āa girls thingā.
And who knows, you might even like one song of hers?
(Also, Iām a BIG The National fan and half of her latest album is basically a weird version of The Nationalās latest records)
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But Iāve been listening to Taylor Swift
On the other hand, Simon Russellās EP is insane and I have it on repeat since it came out
Apr 24, 2024
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the way i could write a world-changing 33 1/3 about this album!!! oh my goodness. (this is the kind of album you write after achieving meteoric pop success if you are a serious person, in case any inescapably famous singer-songwriters are taking notes.)
but for real -- this album is at once a perfectly-preserved late 90s time capsule (neurotic, stylish, a hint of a sneer, but real hope underwriting it all) and also secretly about us, right now, in the year of our lord 2024. it's fierce and smart and darkly hilarious. it's about going to therapy and getting your dad to go to therapy, and then feeling weird imagining the kind of dark shit your dad must be working through in therapy. itās about trying to search for the divine while watching a bunch of idiot rich people get influenced into paying $2000 for like past life regression readings or whatever and feeling weird about the idea that theyāre searching for the same divine you are, because if theyāre looking for it too then it canāt possibly be the real thing, can it? itās about being the bright young thing who wrote jagged little pill and suddenly finding all of your interpersonal relationships totally unworkable because everybody is too blinded by the brightness of the young thing who wrote jagged little pill to let you also be a human being. itās about feeling so old already at 24 and looking back on your teenage self at a tender distance as if those days were a lifetime ago, as if youāre actually any wiser now. itās about wondering if anything you will ever do is ever, ever going to be good enough. alanisās lyrics here are biting and precocious and the songs are just so chatty (witness āfront rowā in which she layers four entire extra verses behind the chorus, effectively writing a whole bonus song because the situation is just too complicated to explain in four minutes) and theyāre talking about all the same things we talk about now, in the same way we talk about them now, except without all the self-serious posturing so many of our contemporary songwriters fall prey to. (āthe couchā is somehow both the most earnest and the least corny song anybody has ever written about therapy.) i know this album must have hit properly when it came out because it was the only thing my mom played in our house for the entire calendar year of 1999, but it feels so preternaturally tailor-made for the moment weāre in now that i canāt believe it hasnāt had one of those improbable tiktok renaissances or whatever that seem to keep happening. highly recommend a revisit or a first acquaintance if you havenāt made one.
Feb 6, 2024
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going to a show with these two in a few weeks (!!!) so i made a playlist to get excited, but have only realized how fully these two women encompass the full spectrum of emotions after someone has broken your heart. from missing them, to wanting revenge and wanting them to hurt, to loving them, to hating them, to slipping up and reaching out, to wondering where you went wrong, to changing yourself to make them want you more, to realizing you weren't enough because nothing ever will be, to knowing if you reach out you'll only lower your guard, to never knowing what you meant to them, and the interplay between all of those things. everything i've felt this month tenfold.
especially potent when you've spent a while not listening to these fun, poppy female artists you love so much because you were afraid you'd look less "cool" to some guy you like with strong music opinions. but i'm done feeling bad about what makes me feel happy and energetic. i don't care if it's cool or niche or cringe or not! i love women! i love having fun! i can only foster positive friendships and relationships going forward if i allow that for myself!
Feb 28, 2024
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Today is the release of my new EP, and being an independent musician is HARD AF.
So Iām feeling down, because I know this project, the one I poured my heart and soul into, will not reach all the places and people I would want.
So here it is, my GARAGE SALE. Hope you like it ā¤ļø
Aug 9, 2024
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