et al” (“Even with a job that keeps me moving / Most days I just wanna lie down.”) She also references this in one of the most stinging tracks from Valentine, the deceptively poppy synth-rocker “Ben Franklin.” Elsewhere on the album, nearly every song includes a lyric that could be construed as a comment on Jordan’s own suffocating indie fame, including the title track (“Those parasitic cameras, don’t they stop to stare at you?”), the wistful jangler “Headlock” (“Felt the crowd was wrong to claim you / Won’t they ever quiet down?”), and the wispy bedroom folk number “c. In recent interviews, Jordan has talked about a 45-day rehab stint that occurred after the busy Lush tour cycle. Judging by the very good new Snail Mail album out Friday, Valentine, Jordan has set about re-establishing some of those boundaries.
Like those singer-songwriters, Jordan was adored for vividly recreating personal traumas in her music, to the point of fostering a devoted (and potentially toxic) following that crowded out all appropriate personal boundaries. And then there was the cult of personality surrounding Jordan, which resembled similarly intense fan bubbles around other young woman indie artists such as Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Lucy Daucus, Julien Baker, and Clairo.
There wasn’t an opportunity - a tour, an interview, a TV appearance, a streaming video performance - that she seemed to turn down. Snail Mail was fixture at indie festivals and music websites. She seemed to be working awfully hard at an age when most people are doing bong rips and playing video games. She really is going to take over the world.Īs impressive as Jordan was, however, I also couldn’t help feeling a slight twinge of concern. “It’s mostly the categorization of Snail Mail being this woman-centric rock outfit that has everything to do with my age, gender, and sexuality, and nothing to do with the music… feels like a pat on the back that I don’t want, for things I can’t control.” “I’m just a songwriter before anything else,” she said. While she was appreciative of the hype that greeted Lush, a surprisingly classicist ’90s guitar rock throwback, she was also refreshingly skeptical of the media narratives already being projected upon her music. She was funny, self-possessed, and seemingly wise beyond her relatively young age of 18. So, lovely senders, if you see this post, please let me know via comment or PM/chat! If you are not one of these senders, but have a carding/snail mail account on Instagram and would like to share your carding/snail mail journey with me, do let me know and I'll follow your account.When I interviewed Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail in 2018 I was - like the scores of other music journalists who spoke with Jordan upon the release of her debut Lush - thoroughly charmed. 5 so to clarify, the purpose of this post is not self-promotion.) I'd like to post about the cards I received prior to the account's creation and am wondering if the lovely senders (see below) of these cards have a carding/snail mail Instagram account and would like to be tagged. (The first sentence made it sound as though I'm about to break rule no. Greetings! Recently, I was inspired by a fellow RAoC member ( u/ReasonablePositive) to create an Instagram account specifically for documenting carding/snail mail journey.
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