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A Coming of Age in 26 Songs: on Womanhood and Emotional Awakenings

A Coming of Age in 26 Songs: on Womanhood and Emotional Awakenings

These songs remind me what troubled times make easy to forget: that womanhood is a language that is often thankless, but always, always worth it.

MusicA. MartineJune 24, 2018music, popular culture, objectifying, misogyny, emily haines, feist, stevie nicks, feminism, coming of age, coming-of-age, character, identity, inspiration, icon, culture, film, television, tropes, stereotypes, love, sex, discovery, artist, album, amy winehouse, value, substance abuse, celebrity, change, rock, compassion, death, depression, idolization, diary, mental illness, metric, fame, grief, pj harvey, indie rock, indie, intimate, loss, heartbreak, poetry, connection, suicide, universal, evolution, philosophyComment

How Emily Haines' Diary of Grief, Loss and Loneliness Became My Own

How Emily Haines' Diary of Grief, Loss and Loneliness Became My Own

I worked through Haines’ songs, as she patched together instances of her life with her father, and I also found myself, inexorably, doing the same.

MusicA. MartineMay 10, 2018metric, grief, loss, depression, death, music, emily haines, family, trauma, diary, intimate, universal, grandmother, father, poetry, poet, jazz, paul haines, album, idolization, connectionComment