Comments on: Definitely Teenage

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:48:48 +0000

“Shameful secret” is just the right way to express it. There’s a sadness to knowing that you aren’t connecting to contemporary music like you did when you were younger.

Thanks, Susie.

By: susie

susie — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:40:37 +0000

hello,

i just stumbled upon your blog via miss moss via susie bubble’s twitter feed, and i like it! very enjoyable internet sharing. and i truly miss the intense connection to music that you describe. my sense of losing that intensity in recent years has felt like a shameful secret. i suppose it’s nice to know it’s common. recently, though, it crept back with pj harvey’s ‘let england shake.’ album listening can still feel intense, but definitely not in the same way.

anyhow, have a lovely day!

-susie

By: marie clare

marie clare — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:56:54 +0000

I totally agree!
I think in those tumultuous teenage years music helped me find out how to be me. Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sparklehorse (still my fav) were the soundtrack to… everything. I was the “headphones hidden in the hoodie” girl, because those precious 5 minuted between classes were the opportunity to listen to a song.
I miss sleeping and breathing music…
But we have to grow up, I guess. At least my 3 year old demands Smells Like Teen Spirit, Sparklehorse, Cursive, and The Weakerthan’s from the back seat

Thanks for the great post!

By: Claudia Horsey

Claudia Horsey — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:35:23 +0000

This video was a little painful to watch while I was having lunch today… I didn’t remember her being that skinny, or intense… I guess I was as intense, and I was a huge fan, so nothing was wrong with her to me hahaha. Cool post, reminded me of that time, and it was fun to just think about it for a bit

By: knitxcore

knitxcore — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:35:46 +0000

her rant at an awards show became my teenage mantra; “this world is bullshit, go with yourself”. eloquent angst.

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:10:29 +0000

When this came out I was in the 7th grade and it basically terrified me — so creepy and dirty and sexualized with the basement rec room wood paneling and the Mike Kelley abject stuffed animals and the casual semi-nudity and the VHS tapes and ‘be[ing] careless with a delicate man’! Now I can more fully appreciate how awesome it is. She’s such a little protruding-shoulder-bladed harpy!

By: Di

Di — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:29:52 +0000

girlfriend i feel nostalgic for this time every day. i love that i can escape to it via the medium of music. this morning i was listening to Shihad, hellz yeah. this only has meaning if you were a teenager in new zealand….

By: Clementine Cassie

Clementine Cassie — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:05:31 +0000

Epic sing-along album. Epic. Thank you for the memories!

{ yes, we get it Fiona, you have a belly button ring. And you’re skinny. booya for you. }

By: hk

hk — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:51:33 +0000

i’ve listened to her album hundreds of times but never paid attention to the video, god she was disgustingly skinny

p.s. big ups to her zig-zag part & the lame dish soap graphics haha

By: bnstl

bnstl — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:31:26 +0000

My teenage angsty lesbianism likes this.

By: kate

kate — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:29:21 +0000

I was so insanely obsessed with her. Still have a very special place in my angsty little heart for her, too.