Molly Mary O'Brien's music musings.
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My friend Matthew just sent out a newsletter featuring three playlists he made inspired by the NYC record store Other Music. Third on the second playlist (Vol. 2. 2002-2003) is the song "Me and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard - A True Story" by the band !!!. What a
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In The Parent Trap (1998), the nefarious would-be stepmom Meredith Blake calls herself "someone who got their [12-year] molars very early in life." This is a hilarious way to describe precociousness, and it reminds me of how everyone treated Lorde when she blew up at age sixteen. No
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I thought this summer was going to be chill but I've been running around like a lil headless chicken. First, because listening to James Frey's episode of How Long Gone has completely rewired my brain about self-promo, I must remind you that I Enjoy Music is
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The 2020s have been a real trend particle accelerator so far—the Large Hadron Collider for quantum crazes, yr cottagecore and mob wife aesthetic and tomato girl summer and glazed donut face and hot rodent boyfriend. Unless you lived in a coastal metropolis, you used to have to wait for
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I am terrible with anniversaries but I realized as of May 22nd, I have been blogging on I Enjoy Music Dot Net for two years! A year ago I did a blogiversary post. No big message this time other than I'm having lots of fun, and that connecting
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I am from the East Coast of the United States of America. My ancestors arrived there from places like Ireland, the Netherlands, and France (via Canada) several hundred years ago. They all made it to upstate New York and thought, here is a good place to settle down. There was
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In 2022, Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye opened his mouth to sing at a Los Angeles stadium show and nothing came out. A true nightmare-worthy scenario. I still have dreams about botching my high school theater productions in various ways, and I wake up in a cold sweat each time. The
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There is a wonderful feeling when you are introduced to a band through a contemporaneous album, and then you realize the album was preceded by several other great albums you have yet to experience. This is a feeling I felt in 2004 when, as a high school freshman, I borrowed
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Here's a new megamix, with anti-skip protection. A reminder to hit up the MAILBAG - email me (ienjoymusicblog@gmail.com) with what you're listening to these days, musical memories, anything you think would be ripe for the blogging. wazzup mashup at the open streets There'
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I started bugging out a third of the way through Lady Gaga's weekend 2 Coachella set, somewhere around "Perfect Celebrity" and "Disease," because I was thinking about giving birth. Oh, that's gonna be so weird. Dangerous, even. And then they hand you
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A lot of music in one place: that's music blogging, baby. 444, by hemlock12 track albumhemlockhemlock 444 - hemlock I read the newsletter GUNKYARD from the NYC showpaper GUNK and they recently published a lyrical tour diary from Carolina Chauffe, who records as hemlock. It painted a gorgeous
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Last week I got an email from a freelance client who told me they needed some help from me. They'd asked ChatGPT to do a job that I normally did, and now they weren't sure whether the work was accurate. I was asked to read over