something i've learned in the last few months is that when you bite the sides of your tongue, ever so gently, subconsciously, and frequently, you can develop what's called a scalloped tongue, which is basically when those bite marks show for the long haul. i learned this from experience, and it made me think about all of the little ways my day-to-day anxiety presents itself: biting the inside of my cheeks; grinding my teeth; tensing my jaw. i found it a fitting metaphor for the way that the freedom to express yourself freely in a relationship, romantic or platonic, comes from very carefully curated expression. kind of feels like lockjaw.

my jaw doesn't feel tense anymore but the scalloped tongue has low key become a staple. makes me feel a little like a lizard. thought you should know that to lighten the mood

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lockjaw (original, acoustic)

it's been a while since i posted a full-length cover, and on the day i decided to record one, i felt drawn to one of my favorite songs of all time. i have this playlist with maybe twenty songs on it of the most meaningful and beautiful songs to me, and this one is on it. 

i started listening to phoebe bridgers in 2021 in honor of my sister, who was dealing with a lot of depression and anxiety and had to take a step back from technology. it made me appreciate having free access to music, so i listened to some of her favorite artists, and phoebe stuck because, surprise surprise, i was also depressed at the time. savior complex didn't make a lot of sense to me lyrically at first, but as i've sat with it for four years, it's made more and more sense. it is also just heartbreakingly beautiful, which is my favorite genre of music :)

i hadn't posted a full cover of this song yet because i wasn't sure about the content of its lyrics. sorry if it's a little out there lol

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savior complex (by phoebe bridgers, acoustic)

when i had just moved to amsterdam, a new friend of mine challenged me to write a love song about the convenience store we were all obsessed with at the time, albert heijn. i'm not sure how well this translates to american audiences but the albert heijn name drop at the end had us all rolling. they said i should try to sell the song to the company but i think albert and my love should transcend a corporation, don't you?

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albert heijn (original, acoustic)

Floyd Collins (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Lucky

this is one it may be a little too early to post, all things considered. but i am quite proud of this song. i felt in the mood to write a song one night in amsterdam, but then i got invited out for drinks. so i went out, then came back and wrote this in the studio around eleven pm. not really gonna tell you much more about it, except that it really does hurt my own feelings to this day.

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the one adjacent (original, acoustic)

i wrote bassett hound about a certain little crush i've got. if you can guess whom it's on, great, you've got pretty basic critical thinking skills! let's just say there's a reason i spelled the dog breed wrong ;) if any of you want to be a wingman hmu

also it was very fun to write this and include as many dog references as i could. there are a lot of homophones so i spelled them the way they immediately make sense for the lyrics on screen, but apply a little more of those basic critical thinking skills i know you have and you'll find them everywhere

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bassett hound (original, acoustic)

a lot of times i write songs to try to create a physical manifestation of my emotions, and i see a long life ahead for that immortalized feeling. when i wrote fancy shmancy free, it was not that; it was simply to write a song just to talk about some random stuff that'd happened that night. i didn't put too much effort into trying to make it eloquent or even good, but people have seemed to like it, and i've come to really like it too. here's my song about wishing i could be fancy shmancy free :)

watch the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWyfcgxqOoo

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fancy shmancy free (acoustic, original)

i did a short cover of this song and it did pretty well on my socials, so i thought i'd record you a full length version :) i discovered the wrecks during the open book tour, but never really became obsessed with them until they released their ep, inside:. i listened to that ep on repeat at the beginning of the summer, and this is one of my favs (along with speed!!)

watch the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVsP70oHWKc

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always, everytime (by the wrecks, acoustic)

i was introduced to manchester orchestra in amsterdam (seriously- of course i knew phoebe bridgers' rendition of their song "the gold" before that). skip forward to the fall of 2024, when i was working night shifts at trader joe's. while we restocked shelves after we closed we could listen to music, which is when i stumbled upon bad books, a collaboration between members of manchester orchestra and kevin devine. i listened to II: revisited first, and i love this version of "it never stops" so much, i cannot listen to the original version of this song. my best friend disagrees though, so we are a house divided. whichever version you prefer, you seemed to like my short cover of this one a little while ago, so here's my full rendition :)

watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBE3bJQ0zr0

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it never stops (by bad books, acoustic)

there have been so many renditions of this song going around lately, some great and some less so. i thought i'd submit mine and hopefully, in your book, it falls in the former camp.

i got to take a solo weekend trip to london in march of 2024. i had been to london before, but never alone, and march 2, 2024 might be in the top ten days of my life. i've always known that london is my favorite city in the world, but on that day i was awake for 22 glorious hours to drink coffee, eat vegan donuts, shop, take in the architecture, sit and people watch, see sarah snook in the picture of dorian gray, and see cabaret for the first time. (adam melchor also put me on his guest list for his show with laufey that day, which was really the cherry on top.)

this show rocked me to my core. i was so impressed by the immersive elements, and felt sick to my stomach as i compared it to our modern day. this song has always been my favorite in the show (even as i saw it for the fourth time) because it is so clearly resonant of how the downfall of our societal morality can easily result in apathy, but it can kind of transcend that to be nihilism's theme song. i am not a nihilist in the slightest, but i love emcees that make it very clear that they do, in fact, care very much, but the circumstances they've found themselves in require them to shove that down.

i think a lot about the lyric, "if you kiss me, if we touch, warning's fair, i don't care very much." i am a romantic, and if someone kissed me, i would very much care. but i could imagine a world in which i'd lose the privilege of all-encompassing infatuation because that just can't be at the forefront when lives are on the line. that's schneider and schultz's story anyway. and it's terrifying and foreboding.

forgive me for rambling. i wrote this at 11 pm, can you tell? the eleventh hour- how ironic

watch the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZ_4zYucGE

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i don't care much (from cabaret, acoustic)

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it never stops (by bad books, acoustic)

mia van de loo