I am posting Jenny Lewis because I had a discussion just yesterday about what the best songs of the past 20 years are that were written by women. It was a long and meandering thing (and for the record I think I settled on Royals being #1. It’s pretty impressive). But Jenny Lewis came up as did Rilo Kiley and it included a lot of things like how her solo work is different than her Rilo Kiley stuff was. I think you could argue Just One of the Guys is her best song ever in terms of writing but I probably still prefer Rilo Kiley because I think sad girl music is just so rare. The world is full of sad bastards and somehow we declare them geniuses because they are men who are sad but sad girl stuff is much more under represented. I think I have probably gone into this before when writing about Lana Del Rey since I think at it’s core that’s why she connected with so many people despite never quite being as mainstream popular as it seemed like she was poised to be. Anyway, I was thinking about Jenny Lewis’ song writing and also the fact that she has been a celebrity that has played a semi important part in my life since I was like 10 years old or something. Which is kind of crazy. I love Jenny Lewis. She’s so Bad. Today I want to fuck Jenny Lewis.
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