The Indigo Girls thread (...also for Indigo Bros; 'B-grade movie' lovers; and other Swamp Opheliacs)

Yeah that song "Tried to Be True" cracks

I liked that piece too, though I think her description of "cringe" is off, or at least too narrow

― rob, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 1:01 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it does get to something i've been thinking about a lot recently. artists are afraid to express heart-on-sleeve emotions for fear of seeming uncool. i maybe would've used "corniness" instead of "cringe" as the operative thing that artists are desperate to avoid, but "cringe" is trendier bit of slang

that's interesting, and a good subject for a not-the-Indigo-Girls thread lol. I was listening to a lovers rock comp the other day and was struck by how sincere the emotions are compared to "love" songs today that really are much more mercenary (...I think, or maybe I'm just 44)

but I think I mostly object to the vaguely reactionary spin Polgreen puts on it. or not "object" really, but I don't see that as being central to its everyday usage. like Ben Shapiro posting a 45-minute video of him dressed like Ken and burning Barbie dolls (or w/e I didn't watch) because of this movie is certified cringe

yeah, that's why i think "corniness" is a better word than "cringe" for what polgreen is going for here

agreed, or maybe "earnestness"

it is a good piece though! I especially liked:

But as I get older, I’ve come to see that nostalgia is not just about looking back at good times. It can also be a remembering of the exquisite pleasure of longing, of anticipation of the life you want so badly, of the self you will make of the materials you collect along the way.

that helps me think about what forms of nostalgia have hit me lately

yes, good piece

Thought of them after Sinead’s death as far as late-80s activist folk making its way to the top 40.