Music Recommend

Artist: The New Pornographers

Album: Together

Song: Valkyrie in the Roller Disco

So I'm sure I need not recommend The New Pornographers to anyone here, as their utter awesomeness is well-documented. I just needed to point out this track, my favorite from the recent disc. I never really know what any of them are talking about in these songs - neither Newman nor Bejar seem to value comprehensible lyrics - but in my interpretation this song is about falling in love with someone at a roller rink, and never actually speaking to the object of one's affection. Besides my love of roller derby, this story is basically what happened to me every Friday night for a couple of years at the end of elementary school. Skating was the only thing for kids in my town to do, and I was nearly as silently-romantic as I was hopeless. I've grown to be calculating and heartless, of course, but this song brings me back to the overwhelming vulnerability of childhood in a way that doesn't make me want to poke myself in the eye. The rest of the album is also great, obviously.

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