I turned 21 a few months ago and ever since then it feels like adulthood has started happening TO me. As a result I’ve gained both a new appreciation for love songs and an insatiable taste for coming-of-age music. I’ve been listening to Carol Ades’ debut album Late Start on repeat and I’ve seen her live twice this year. I’ve also listened to lots of Noah Kahan and Shakey Graves in an attempt to feel like myself, because their music always has that effect on me. Other than that, Ego by Halsey, Mona Lisa on a Mattress by Bishop Briggs, and Cinnamon Girl by Lana Del Rey keep coming up in every playlist I make. In some ways I feel as unmoored as I did during the tail end of the pandemic, when I was graduating high school and listening to Tori Amos and Holly Humberstone and wondering what life would bring me.
It may be because I'm many decades older, but "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" doesn't remind me of the pandemic: It helped me ride through it. https://waynerobins.substack.com/p/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters
I turned 21 a few months ago and ever since then it feels like adulthood has started happening TO me. As a result I’ve gained both a new appreciation for love songs and an insatiable taste for coming-of-age music. I’ve been listening to Carol Ades’ debut album Late Start on repeat and I’ve seen her live twice this year. I’ve also listened to lots of Noah Kahan and Shakey Graves in an attempt to feel like myself, because their music always has that effect on me. Other than that, Ego by Halsey, Mona Lisa on a Mattress by Bishop Briggs, and Cinnamon Girl by Lana Del Rey keep coming up in every playlist I make. In some ways I feel as unmoored as I did during the tail end of the pandemic, when I was graduating high school and listening to Tori Amos and Holly Humberstone and wondering what life would bring me.
i feel like listening to tori amos as you're graduating high school is a universal experience...
At the very least I fully took after my mother in that respect 😂