Tag: alternative music

Daily Dose: Lana Del Rey, “A&W”

If you have a blog that explores nostalgia, you’re contractually obligated to like and share music by Lana Del Rey.

On a level deeper beneath the surface, her music helps me navigate the experience of being a public woman. Here, where I am Content, people expect me to be specifically what they want, nothing more or less. My laugh is irritating, I sure don’t look like a historian, I must be an intern at the nonprofit I run, I sound like a failed comedian, I am too white, I am too woke, I am not enough but I am also too much.

“It’s not about having someone to love me anymore. This is the experience of being an American whore.” Drops beat around 4:10.

Daily Dose: Belle and Sebastian, “Juliet Naked”

Belle and Sebastian will forever be one of the formative bands I found in high school, an album that made me feel cooler just by listening to it. And now they have released an album called Late Developers that shows what feels to me like a Catholic school boy developing a large negative.

I love when bands keep pace with you and you run this race together, you know?