Good morning all,

Let’s talk about being teenagers! Or rather, let’s talk about how easy it is to revert to the patterns of teenage life, even when you are objectively an adult with adult emotional responses.

Firstly, enjoy this lovely article (by a woman) about The National (not women) – it’s also about the obsessive love that grows around bands, when you are a teenager and also when you are not:

I had never loved a band like I loved this band, and the truth is I never really have since. I acknowledge that quite a lot of music is better than the National, more accomplished, more important, more coherent, and less embarrassing. But we rarely love things for reasons that aren’t embarrassing.

https://nylon.com/articles/national-sleep-well-beast-everything-is-embarrassing

Speaking of music, I feel personally picked on by this Reductress article about a music taste that is basically trapped in college/2008/amber. It namechecks a remarkable number of my favourite songs, bands and albums. None of whom are Panic! At The Disco by the way:

She also credits the releases of Justin Timberlake’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds in 2006, and TPain’s “Epiphany” in 2007 with her continued musical curiosity. “Then ‘Tha Carter III’ came out in 2008”, she said. “It was all over for me then.”

http://reductress.com/post/wow-this-woman-hasnt-listened-to-any-new-music-since-2008/

Finally, a key feature as I remember it of teenage life is staring at pictures of men looking pouty and hot. There is no shortage of these on the internet, but if you are looking for an aggregator, the feminist hero behind totallywould dot wordpress dot com has been doing this for seven years. She’s also been proactively going through her archives recently so you can be sure you aren’t looking at a picture of a confirmed harasser. FEMINIST HERO, like I said. Enjoy. Happy Friday.

https://totallywould.wordpress.com/

Alex xx.