Aimee Mann, S+D

always kinda thought that aimee mann would have been (more) amazing if she had been in a good band
(a better band than Til Tuesday)
in the mode of REM or i dunno, Wilco

Maybe if she’d joined Rush

boom

Goal was wide open.

and time stood still

I had no idea she had a podcast with Ted Leo. I can't wait to dive in. "The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo is the newest artistic collaboration from legendary singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo. Every other week, Aimee, Ted, and friends across the creative spectrum discuss the process of turning an idea into art."

https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-art-of-process-with-aimee-mann-and-ted-leo/

Ian Mackaye, Open Mike Eagle, Kim Gordon ...

If you're excited about that podcast, wait until you hear The Both!

That album was OK, I'm actually more excited about the podcast.

Don’t remember if I’ve said this before, but I remember seeing Mann at the height of my fandom for her & being utterly devastated at her lack of stage presence / charisma / “star quality”

I felt like she was the anti-Elvis.

Kinda like The Cars! I never really thought about commonalities between the two, but the craft, the deadpan, the midtempo slogs match up all sorts of ways. Both even headed to Boston to get their careers moving.

Was going to say, she could have written "Drive" and now I see she's covered it.

Good post. You're on a roll, bendy.

the anti-Elvis

Was she uncomfortable, ill-at-ease or just "too normal"? Are there any other artists you'd say the same about?

Michael J. Fox got no Elvis in him

And yet, she's always hanging with a bunch of Cali comedians, in videos, on stage, etc., so maybe she just likes playing the straight man?

Oh definitely. The most animated she gets is in those pre-recorded comedy videos. I'm totally fine with this though, she's always been "cool".

Christgau agrees iirc

idk… i saw her a bunch between idk 2005-2010? and she was always funny and charming and her band was always tight. maybe it helps that a few of those were her christmas show…

I see you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDmoMaj96JI

Apparently was set to tour with Steely Dan this summer but, according to Mann's post/comic strip, dropped because (what's left of) the Dan are/have dicks:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbL2UESJxhD/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=a0e9598f-8b30-41d9-9d67-ff12c7ad0073

I'll always love this quote:

I’ve listened to Can’t Buy a Thrill a thousand times. It’s just a perfect record. Steely Dan have very complicated chord changes, it’s very modal. They also have a really harmonic sensibility that’s not like anybody else’s. The music breaks for long, long solos—and I hate jamming, I hate solos. But I guess making people play 20 solos and then putting them together really pays off, because all of them feel like melodic parts of the song. And there’s something to their music where you can tell that those guys are assholes, but but they also sound like they fucked up in a way that feels familiar.

All is forgiven if Donald just tells me what Brooklyn is about. https://t.co/5zUTzIhIjt

— Aimee Mann (@aimeemann) March 17, 2022

Maybe she was dropped from the tour after Steely Dan heard that she referred to them as assholes

Did she?

It's two quotes up, part of a Pitchfork interview

Clicked through the tweet to Pitchfork and also to the instagram but didn't quite see the quote in question.

The "asshole" quote is under the Steely Dan entry in the Pitchfork interview above the tweet. The "female singer-songwriter" quote is from the comic.

Do Steely Dan not know they're assholes?

Oh, sorry! It was hiding there in plain sight, I can’t read this morning, too much time on ILX, you know the drill.

Do Steely Dan not know they're assholes?

They don't give a fuck about anybody else.

That may be the nicest way to call somebody an asshole that I have ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras

Response by Fagan (via a statement "shared with Pitchfork"):

Well, first of all, the idea that I would make any decision based on the gender of a performer is ridiculous. That’s something that would never even occur to me.

There was a communication problem on our end. I was misinformed as to how firm the commitment was to any particular opening act. And, although I have the greatest respect for Aimee as a writer and performer, I thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style.

But I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup. I apologize for any distress this has caused Aimee and her fans.

Some of his best wives are female singer-songwriters.

The upside to this is that she can now do her own tour and people won't be forced to listen to Steely Dan in order to enjoy her performance.

Some of his best wives are female singer-songwriters.