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...expect to meet our lifemates as undergraduates and we feel no real regret when relationships that made us content and complete while at school do not make the cut in the world outside. As our priorities shift and our values applaud professional success louder than romantic success, love??of at least the college variety—is simply no longer a reason to make life-changing decisions. Truth be told, it most often won’t even convince us to alter our cover letter location preferences. College students today, much to the chagrin of the romantic, think...
...created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love?? is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes and see her.” Yet the strangest girl...
...make sense of the rest of the album—Amos would never do anything as simple as presenting women as victims of male songwriters, or even as victorious over misogynist songwriters. Her take on 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love?? turns a slightly cutesy heartbreak ballad into a mechanist over-you diatribe worthy of Kraftwerk in its soulless accompaniment. She deadpans so flawlessly that there really is no doubt about her feelings towards the unfortunate subject of her song—let us hope he can peel himself...
Some might find it a little tricky to relate to the woes of “Boy Girl Wonder,” a simple she-don’t-love-me song with echoes of “Why Must I be a Teenager in Love?? in its plaintive chorus. However, fewer teenagers—even 21st century ones—grieve, “But he’s got a real one, and mine’s from the store.” The novelty of “Ganja,” a song about...
...seem to be true nearly as often. Fortunately, Thalia Zedek, formerly the vocalist for Come and Uzi, has such a female baritone voice showcased on this album—part Leonard Cohen (whom she covers on the elegiac “Dance Me to the End of Love??), part Nick Cave, with the phrasing and sensibility of gloomed out Elliot Smith...