#aimee mann

[cooltrees]

just watched magnolia, went to the bar, and put on aimee mann’s “wise up” on the jukebox

[hagenlastkiss]

Aimee Mann ('Til Tuesday)

[sparkbirdmusic]

1000/10

admittedly i'm biased, being:

a huge fan of all things girl, interrupted

a huge fan of all things aimee mann

mentally ill

i’ve been obsessed with the concept album for the past few years, these are a couple of the songs (which in the show are sung by characters, with gorgeous arrangements that feature members of the ensemble as instrumentalists and on backing vocals):

cw: rather vague allusions to suicide (nothing graphic or explicit)

(side note: if you ever come to nyc, make sure to check out what’s playing off-broadway, off-off-broadway, etc… i do tend to love whatever i go see, whether it’s a flashy popular broadway show or something more niche, but i often find the niche productions more intellectually stimulating.)

my favorite lyrics from these two songs:

from "you fall":

but you've got to admit that the membrane is thin so you patch where it's split with your hairspray and pin and that's the last thing holding you in the universe's delicate skin

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you're strong, but lord, who's really that tough? you're not made of such unbreakable stuff so you fall (you fall, you fall, you fall) bit by bit is all from "robert lowell & sylvia plath":

robert lowell and sylvia plath it's nice if you ignore the aftermath on your right: the verse, the rhyme on the left: a ghoulish pantomime

now you're split in two and each side still isn't you and you know how that sounds but it keeps being true

[oacest]

Visit Original Link

"all of liam's."

(from a discussion about the song aimee mann wrote about noel)

[mx-piggy]

obsession || frankenstein by aimee mann

[needle-drop]

"This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" performed by Aimee Mann in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 episode 8 "Sleeper" (2002) dir. Alan J. Levi

[mtvscreengrabs]

What About Love - 'Til Tuesday (1986)

[oasistropical]

the whole aimee mann/noel gallagher tangent is so deeply appealing to me like it's that weird, deeply anxious woman, finding herself alone in a country she associates with traumatic memories. and shes fixating and most likely fiercely projecting onto this nervous british guy that isnt even famous yet and she feels like their songwriting sensibilities are similar somehow. yet the two of them seem unable to understand each other (ie their argument over chord progression and the merits of musical education) probably on account of their cultural differences and the clashing nature of their respective traumas. just the contigencies of human connection. and she writes the most unhinged love(?) song about him that sounds like a murder ballad because she realised the part of her that idealised him was the problem and he laughs about it years later on a podcast with his shitty friend. and on that year they met aimee mann was a renowned lesbian icon and looked like that