Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso (photo by Shervin Lainez, PR)
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6.14.21 12:00am
June is Pride month and for Album ReCue, WFUV has asked LGBTQ+ musicians to tell us about their most loved albums those releases that inspired, soothed, empowered or galvanized them as artists.
Amelia Meath of
Cyndi Lauper s 1983 solo debut,
She s So Unusual. Listen to Alisa Ali s conversation with Meath in the player above.
Sylvan Esso s Amelia Meath says that she became attached to Cyndi Lauper s
She s So Unusual before she d even heard it. It was the photo of a carefree Lauper cavorting on the album s cover that drew her in. Meath, who was still quite young at the time, thought Lauper looked like a stone-cold-hot-queer freak, and she just really really liked this person.
It was the television event that every Friends fan wanted… except it wasn’t. There is no doubting the world domination that hit sitcom Friends had during its 10-season run from 1994. This wasn’t
Harper and Allie are awful human beings.
Restless and clueless 20somethings who share a loft in Brooklyn’s hip Williamsburg neighborhood, they can barely do something simple like go for an afternoon bike ride without having it turn into a debacle. They are emblematic of millennial entitlement; rather than work toward a fulfilling life and risk failure, they’d rather make fun of everyone around them in catty, detached fashion and expect success will simply come their way. Strangers and friends alike exist for their use, abuse and amusement. But while they’re high on snark, they’re low on smarts: They’re not nearly as capable as they think they are, individually or as a duo.