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We’re back! Last Monday I ACTUALLY took time away from everything on the holiday to relax and enjoy the day off. I hope you all were able to do the same!
Today’s Music Monday track is from The Weepies. I absolutely love them, and come back to their music over and over, no matter how many times I’ve listened throughout the years. An indie duo, Deb Talan and Steve Tannen recorded 7 albums together over the course of 10 years–almost 1 album a year!
The Weepies made music as a couple through many life challenges, including Talan’s breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy. Apparently, they finalized a divorce just before the pandemic broke out and performed their last shows together as The Weepies earlier this year. I’m extremely sad that I didn’t know about this and never got to see them together live.
The track I happened to choose for today reflects the kind of lingering sadness we get after a huge loss (like the Weepies breaking up!). When I first started listening to the Weepies in my late teens, like many young people I had that one person I just COULD NOT get over for the longest time. The grief over losing that person–both our romantic relationship and our friendship–would come in waves, surprising me at all hours of the day and night. For a long time I felt (naively) that nothing and nobody could possibly convey or understand my despair.
When I heard this song, I finally felt like someone else “got it”. And when one day I stumbled across the music video, I was absolutely destroyed and crumbled into a heap of tears over these little clay monsters that perfectly depicted my grief and desperate wish to renew that relationship.
If you’re wondering, I did eventually get over it, albeit many years later (and THAT is a story for another time)! But to this day, I still get a little teary watching this music video and remembering how much inner pain I suffered at that time.
Much of the music The Weepies made touches on those aspects of the human condition we feel most deeply–grief, joy, love, loss, and so much more. I really can’t say enough how much I love their music. I hope you’ll listen to this track and many others of theirs.
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