"Touch Me Fall," from Swamp Ophelia, is sort of their take on a proggy epic... check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqq2ofGhDTg
― juristic person (morrisp), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
i enjoyed reading this! it was very enjoyable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/indigo-girls-barbie-cringe.html
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 16:12 (eight months ago) link
While I prefer not to click on an NYT Opinion piece with “cringe” in the URL (my loss, perhaps), I’ll just note that I thought the use of their song in the movie was great. (Also another song, by a different artist, which I won’t spoil)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 16:23 (eight months ago) link
Funny line in that song is stopping by a bar at 3am. Are bars typically open at that hour? Point of order, Emily!
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 17:57 (eight months ago) link
I liked that piece too, though I think her description of "cringe" is off, or at least too narrow
― rob, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:01 (eight months ago) link
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp),
ohhh yeah
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:05 (eight months ago) link
bars can stay open until 4am in NYC. that's the only place i know like that. but i don't get around much.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link
"(my loss, perhaps)"
no big loss. but its sweet!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
xp With this awareness, I will sheepishly but swiftly shut down my long-running effort Mansplaining the Indigo Girls: An AUDIBLE™ Podcast
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:26 (eight months ago) link
Their S/T (which I've dipped back into, thanx to this revive) is just banger after banger... what a debut
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:32 (eight months ago) link
Some of R.E.M.'s best backing performances imo
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:47 (eight months ago) link
Yeah that song "Tried to Be True" cracks
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:54 (eight months ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 1:01 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it does get to something i've been thinking about a lot recently. artists are afraid to express heart-on-sleeve emotions for fear of seeming uncool. i maybe would've used "corniness" instead of "cringe" as the operative thing that artists are desperate to avoid, but "cringe" is trendier bit of slang
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:58 (eight months ago) link
that's interesting, and a good subject for a not-the-Indigo-Girls thread lol. I was listening to a lovers rock comp the other day and was struck by how sincere the emotions are compared to "love" songs today that really are much more mercenary (...I think, or maybe I'm just 44)
but I think I mostly object to the vaguely reactionary spin Polgreen puts on it. or not "object" really, but I don't see that as being central to its everyday usage. like Ben Shapiro posting a 45-minute video of him dressed like Ken and burning Barbie dolls (or w/e I didn't watch) because of this movie is certified cringe
― rob, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:24 (eight months ago) link
yeah, that's why i think "corniness" is a better word than "cringe" for what polgreen is going for here
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:43 (eight months ago) link
agreed, or maybe "earnestness"
it is a good piece though! I especially liked:
But as I get older, I’ve come to see that nostalgia is not just about looking back at good times. It can also be a remembering of the exquisite pleasure of longing, of anticipation of the life you want so badly, of the self you will make of the materials you collect along the way.
that helps me think about what forms of nostalgia have hit me lately
― rob, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:50 (eight months ago) link
yes, good piece
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:56 (eight months ago) link
Thought of them after Sinead’s death as far as late-80s activist folk making its way to the top 40.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 22:15 (eight months ago) link