Thanks!!

Thank you, Amanda!

Thanks to @jeremydlarson.bsky.social for the assignment and thanks to my mom for eventually allowing me out of the house again :)

Sufjan also released an album this year that no one remembers… 🤣 www.hearingthings.co/the-most-dep...

The song is written for her son, a trans man, for the new trans rights benefit compilation TRANSA from Red Hot. (Full disclosure: my husband Elia is a producer on the album.) Incredible stuff here. transa.world

Lost to the sands of time, alas!

Ok I laughed out loud

To be fair: my singing voice is, in fact, terrible.

I love how much you loved Tori ❤️

Also: my stepdad subconsciously inspired my entire music criticism career by declaring Tori Amos “a boring Laura Nyro ripoff” after my mom forced him to chaperone me to the Under the Pink tour in 1994. (No, I did not know who Laura Nyro was then.)

Maybe! I think of “golden retriever” as more “wife guy” though, which these folks aren’t really. (At least until Noah Kahan gets married and starts writing all his songs about how much he loves his wife.)