Moving On: The Playlist

In December, I asked 25 people to share their favorite "whatever, you suck, I'm over it" song with me. And they wrote back with excellent recommendations, which I kept to myself, wallowing in secluded self-pity for months on end while I wore out my Spotify account.

But then this morning I got a text message from someone about losing a (stupid, thoughtless, sexually stunted) boy, and I thought, I should share this list of Moving On songs. Others can benefit from this rich treasury of knowledge. 

So presented below (with commentary, because who would I be without commentary?) is an alphabetical list of the best "Fuck That Dude (/Female Dude)" songs that there are in the whole entire universe. You're welcome.

Title: Are You Fucking Kidding Me

Artist: Kate Miller-Heidke

Recommended by: Wes Hannah, wonderful planter of plants and lover of dogs, and hugger of everyone, big and small.

Sophie Says: This is a song about being friended on The Facebook. I deleted my The Facebook account so I wouldn't have to deal with this kind of shit. This song is perfect. I hope Kate Miller-Heidke wears a tiara when she sings it because she's the fucking BOSS and bosses should wear tiaras. Good poking reference in here, too. 

Listen: Kate Miller-Heidke - Are You Fucking Kidding Me

Title: Back To December

Artist: Taylor Swift

Recommended by: Alexis Johnson, my absolute favorite person in the whole entire world, without a single doubt. Also, the hottest person.

Sophie Says: This song makes me think of Alexis Johnson, my sister. It reminds me of Alexis' break-ups and it makes me want to punch some dudes in the face really hard. Also one time we talked about this song while we were waiting to watch Acro-cats, the astounding traveling trick-cat act. YOU TOO CAN CREATE MEMORIES LIKE THIS!

Listen: Taylor Swift - Back To December

Title: Break Down 

Artist: Mariah Carey

Recommended by: Eden Essick, an extraordinary, thoughtful, fashionable success story of a human being stationed in New York

Sophie Says: MAN, Mariah Carey could just SING SO WELL. I don't feel disappointed by "Glitter" at all, by the way. I have seen "Glitter" three times. I wish I could have told young, whispery Mariah -- as she is here -- that she would someday meet Nick Cannon and he would love her even when she was fat and they would have twins together. MAYBE THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO TELL OURSELVES, WORLD.

Listen:  Mariah Carey - Breakdown

Title: Breaking Up

Artist: Rilo Kiley

Recommended by: Alex Kerr, teacher and sports logo nerd, and absolutely fantastic friend to anyone who is lucky enough to know him 

Sophie Says: Remember when Rilo Kiley went down this road where they were playing sort of funk-inspired songs? That was a fun time. That was before they broke up. Do you feel like individual members of the band now play this song about them breaking up? I'll bet they do. This is an outstanding "FUCK THIS SITUATION" song, by the way. Perfect score for that.

Listen: Rilo Kiley - Breakin' Up

Title: Call Your Girlfriend

Artist: Robyn

Recommended by: CJ Hunt, far and away the funniest person I know. Sorry to all you other funny people. You haven't met CJ.

Sophie Says: I think CJ maybe picked this song because when he is trying to move on he likes to sad-dance. Robyn has never been through a break-up, though, I decided, because HAVE YOU SEEN HER? No one is breaking up with Robyn. 

Listen: Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend

Title: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Artist: Bob Dylan

Recommended by: Ben Stevens, serial genius and music nerd (he had one of those terabyte hard drives JUST FOR HIS MUSIC before external hard drives were even a thing. Did I spell terabyte right?)

Sophie Says: This is a gimme, right? Why didn't anyone else pick this song? This is the one I would go to, too. I AM SIMILAR TO A MUSIC NERD/ GENIUS IN THIS WAY!

Listen: Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Title: Everything Is Everything

Artist: Lauryn Hill

Recommended by: Jessica Thompson, best friend of all time, brilliant artist, thoughtful emoter, all-around winning human

Sophie Says: Jessica has my favorite taste in music out of everyone in the world. One time we traveled the world together watching Ben Folds perform. We wore Ben Folds T-shirts. Jessica even posted on a message board about Ben Folds. WE WERE TRUE FANS. R&B truly lends itself nicely to break-up music, doesn't it? Just in terms of the rhythm... and blues... of it. 

Listen: Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything

Title: Gives You Hell

Artist: All American Rejects

Recommended by: Avery Lawrence, smiliest, nicest guy you've ever met, with a deep gift for the art of cupcake decoration

Sophie Says: YESSSSSS THANK GOOOODDDDD someone else picked this one, because otherwise I would have had to pick it! This is that roll-down-the-window shit that YOU NEED WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING YOUR CAR AND YOU HAVE JUST BEEN DUMPED. Let's shut this thing down. NOTHING IS GOING TO BE BETTER THAN THIS PICK.

Listen: All American Rejects - Gives You Hell

Title: Gonna Get Along Without You Now

Artist: She & Him

Recommended by: Kim Neer, truest soul-mate, calm, collected, mindful, beautiful thinker on the other side of the country

Sophie Says: I'm glad Kim picked this song, because I think it is the song my mom would have picked too. I think it is originally from the '50s or something, by a woman named Teresa Brewer. My mom loved this shit. She sang it all the time. It was like she waited for me to go through a break-up so she could sing this. She sang it to me about Trevor, who I loved FOR NINE YEARS, and I did NOT get along without him before I met him, because I was a BABY before I met him. But she didn't understand my love for Trevor. He totally rejected me. I DID get over it, though, so I guess there was some truth to the song. Badass pick, Kim and Mom.

Listen: She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now

Title: I Learned The Hard Way

Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Recommended by: Emily Nelson, knower of all the best hip tattoos and possessor of none; hard-working molder of young lives

Sophie Says: Oh man, this song just rocks so HARD. It should be on the radio ALL THE TIME. The fact that it is not is a disgrace to all of humanity, I think. I would never cross Sharon Jones again if I was the dickhole in this song.

Listen: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

Title: Just By Myself

Artist: Greg Brown

Recommended by: Bryn Roshong, independent spirit, lover of wonderful stately dogs, and celebratory grower of plants

Sophie Says: This is a really good song for that time when you are REALLY over it; like, you are honestly over it and you're not even really thinking about it anymore, actually, and you're not really interested in anybody else because WHO IS GONNA BE AS BADASS AS YOU BY YOURSELF? I'm into that right now; that's very much where I am. Bryn knew that. Bryn really knows me, across the miles and miles.

Listen: Greg Brown - Just By Myself

Title: No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

Artist: Donna Summer

Recommended by: Tami Nelson, extraordinary improviser, never-misses-a-beater (beater?), beater of lots of other things as well, actually, all-around winner

Sophie Says: Tami says this is the first record she exhausted, and I get that... this is a great song. Bring your damn tissues with you as you close yourself in a phone booth with the Haagan Daas and you listen to the first two minutes of this. And then after that, PLEASE put on your roller skates and disco dance the fuck out of that phone booth and throw that Haagan Daas at that tool who screwed you over. 

Listen: Donna Summer - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

Title: Ocean Breathes Salty Air 

Artist: Modest Mouse

Recommended by: Chris Trew, unparalleled comedian, who does all kinds of comedy, yes even prop comedy, if by prop comedy you mean he pretends to have sex on stage a lot of times, and one time he only wore scarves on stage

Sophie Says: Guys, when this song used to come on 94.7 NRK in Portland, I would turn it up so damn loud, and I would listen to it and I NEVER HEARD THE LYRICS. Now I'm hearing these lyrics, and yeah, this is a really great break-up song. "Get away from me!" is a central lyric in this. Did you know that? Oooh... no one picked Ludacris' "Get Out The Way." What the fuck is up with that?

Listen: Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty Air

Title: On The Borderline

Artist: Sally Seltmann

Recommended by: Andrew Witherspoon, the single best graphic designer in Portland, who manages to always fill his world with beauty and laughter, and who always makes me smile

Sophie Says: Andrew almost certainly picked this song because he knew I would like it. I like it because it has spare female vocals and a quiet seventies pop melody and really kicky drum beat, and anyway, Andrew really knows me pretty well. That said, this one is also perfect for that "seriously though you guys I'm over it now" moment. 

Listen: Sally Seltmann - On The Borderline

Title: One Of Us Must Know

Artist: Bob Dylan

Recommended by: Ariana Rampy, brilliant writer, successful food preparer, teacher of theatre to young people, and shooting star on her way to the sky

Sophie Says: This song is a great song for when you and your significant other mutually kind of know that it wasn't going to work out, but really, they're more of a dick than you are in the end, and that's a good thing to have in a song. On a related note... BOB DYLAN SURE UNDERSTANDS HEARTBREAK. Right? Am I right?

Listen: Bob Dylan - One Of Us Must Know

Title: The Ghost

Artist: Deer Tick

Recommended by: Ben M, mysterious lover of birds, printing presses, and equality

Sophie Says: First things first: this song does a great job of utilizing the under-utilized shaker egg. So six points for that. Also, this is of the hip-country genre, which is absolutely the genre that lends itself best to I'm-over-you songs. I would say mainstream country lends itself the best to this, but I just feel weird advocating mainstream country in general. Maybe if you buy me a drink first.

Listen: Deer Tick - The Ghost

Title: Too Many Birds

Artist: Bill Callahan

Recommended by: Andrew Hall, drummer for the fabulous Dude York, satirical writer, too-smart-for-his-own-good knower of truths

Sophie Says: This project of asking for these songs was born out of asking Andrew for five, and receiving a list so perfect that it made my mouth dry. I'm only posting one, because Andrew's list felt very personal to me, and I want to greedily keep it to myself. But he says this about this song: "Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan's breaking up was weird not because she left him for Andy Samberg but because they literally never once acknowledged it in public while their records (his Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle and her Have One On Me) very very very much acknowledge it in public.  [...] Something about the way he adds one line to the previous line, again and again, changing the sentiment each time. There's something in that."

Listen: Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds

Title: You Make Me Feel Like A Whore

Artist: Everclear

Recommended by: Nady Persons, wonderful decorator of homes, defender of children, skater of roller derbies, biggest role model of the most people I've ever known

Sophie Says: This is another one where I want to throw my hands to the sky and thank heaven someone picked this track. YES THIS IS WHAT I LISTENED TO AFTER EVERY BREAK UP I HAVE EVER BEEN THROUGH IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE DRIVING LIFE. I say driving life because you need to put the windows down for this. You know you do.

Listen: Everclear - You Make Me Feel Like A Whore

Sophie's Top Five

Here are five that I've been listening to on repeat. They are wonderful, perfect shining moments in the getting-over-it process encapsulated in music. I do think that getting-over-it music should probably have drums, which is why I haven't made any personally yet. Although I am thinking about it. I am feeling over it. Now. Let's get some WINDOWS ROLLED DOWN!

Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped (You can't stop a classic, can you?)

Slow Club - Giving Up On Love (Amen.)

Typhoon - Starting Over (Gotta give some love to those Portland kids. They go through break-ups, too.)

Eamon - Fuck It (AMEN.)

Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (I don't care how much of a cliche it is, I love this song. It's the only song I can think of that is about being ambivalent or indifferent. "There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave: You were what I wanted, I gave what I gave. I'm not sorry I met you, I'm not sorry it's over, I'm not sorry there's nothing to say.")

Top 5 Things I Learned From Children's Literature

I've been thinking a lot lately about how everything good I've learned in my life I read in a children's book. I must admit, this is one of the major pulls of being an elementary school teacher. Last year, reading The Giving Tree out loud to a group of wide-eyed six-year-olds, I found myself drowning in a puddle of my own tears by the last page. They all got really quiet after that and made me cards during writing center time because they thought they had done something really, really bad.

Unfortunately, not everyone reads picture books out loud for a living. So here are the top five lessons I've learned in the last five years. Really. Top five. And I learned them all while sitting in knee-achingly tiny chairs.

1. "Everybody needs a rock." (From Everybody Needs A Rock by Byrd Baylor): This is maybe the most useful thing I've ever learned in my entire life. You know that day that started with you tucking your dress into your tights and then meeting with your boss; and ended with getting rear-ended by someone in a beat-up Honda who drove away? You need a rock on that day. Like... a literal rock. I find I need a rock on most days. This book says you really only need one, but I have a purse rock, a pocket rock, a bedside rock, and a desk rock. It's amazing what sadnesses a rock can't heal. And sometimes, when you just really want to play outside, and everyone says, "You're much too old to be playing outside," your rock will say, "You be the princess, I'll be the frog."

2. “... And she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.” (From The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein): Here are the two things that you can learn from The Giving Tree: 1. If you love someone more than you love yourself, you will end your life without most of your body parts, dejected and alone, nothing more than a stump. And 2. If you love someone more than you love yourself, you will end your life happy. So the true moral is to heed both reminders. You have to take care of your limbs sometimes; you have to know that ultimately, at the end of the day, you are going to have to sit with yourself a lot. So you'd better love yourself some, or the world is not going to grant you any favors. But you know, when you give yourself to someone else, it comes back to you. At the end of the day, you will never be alone. I would not like to be the giving tree. She is just way too giving. The boy really has it figured out. He gives himself to the giving tree, and he takes care of himself. In the end, I kind of think he's the hero of the story. We are never alone. It is our nature to love each other.

3. "Only eight years old and in the third grade, and I can fly. That means I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life." (From Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold): What a good book. The premise of this book is that this girl loves to lie on her roof and imagine that she can fly all over the world and own whatever she sees. And that's it. That's the whole story. There's roasted peanuts and watermelon somewhere in the story, too, but mostly it's about being free within your own mind and spirit, no matter how destructive and mean the rest of the world may be. Every day, you might wake up, hit the grindstone, and try to make the world a better place. And every day, the world might say, "I HATE YOU! I HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING A NICE PLACE TO LIVE IN!" And to the world you must respond, "But in my mind, I can fly over you, and in my reality, the good guys win and the bad guys lose, and there's nothing you can do about it!" Make your own truth some days. And make your truth one in which you can fly. 

4. "Liam may not have been a gardener, but he know that he could help."(From The Curious Garden by Peter Brown): All you really need in life is to know what you love. Liam loves to be outside. Then he finds the most badass little dying garden ever when he wanders up to an abandoned railroad track. (Already in this story, Liam is my definition of the perfect man.) He loves the garden, and although he makes mistakes, the garden is patient while he learns to tend it. If you love something enough, you will find a way to make a difference in the world. Liam makes the whole grungy gray town he lives in into a beautiful Garden of Eden Part 2, with the help of all of those he inspires (including this dumb blonde girl, whom Liam ends up marrying and having babies with at the end. Alternate lesson of this book: hot gardeners prefer tan blondes). There is way too much hubris in the world. That's not useful, really. What we need is to love the things we love and to take care of them with all our hearts. The Curious Garden is the book I read alone when the weight of the world is too heavy for my bones. I come away from it feeling healed.

5. "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus." (From Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems): It's not because pigeons aren't delightful animals. It's not because pigeons aren't persuasive. It is because pigeons are too small to reach the pedals, and they do not have driver's licences, and if you let them drive they will endanger dozens of eco-conscious commuters. Let the pigeon poop on a sculpture instead. That's a far more appropriate activity for a pigeon.

List: Top 15 Best Songs of 2011

WOW this was a GREAT year for music. It was GREAT. Basically every favorite band that is still together that I have released a record in 2011. Some of the records were fantastic (thanks, Drake) and some of the records were disappointing (I had high hopes, Slow Club), but all in all, it was a great year to listen to music.

Picking just 15 tracks was a huge pain. My playlist of "2011 Contenders" has 423 tracks on it. I'm serious. If you want to hear that list, by the way, you can come over to my house and we can make friendship bracelets together.

Here, though, is the final tally. This is some good shit, right here. If a few of the tracks seem obvious to you, that's because THEY ARE, because I'm not going to not pick a song that was fucking awesome just because they played that shit out on the radio. Jeez.

Because I don't have the legal rights, really, to upload all of these songs for your personal download onto my website, the links are to YouTube videos, for the most part. So. If you would like a mix CD with all 15 of these delightful tracks, I'll mail one to you! Here's the catch: you must also mail me a mix CD with YOUR favorite 15 tracks of 2011. That's the deal. A CD for a CD makes the whole world musically-enlightened. So if you're interested in this kind of transaction, go ahead and click on that "contact" button over there and let me know.

Here we go.

15. Hindi Zahra - Don't Forget: I heard an interview with Hindi Zahra on the New York Times Popcast and let me just say this: she has a really sexy accent. That is the first reason I love her. The second is that she's French-Moroccan and sometimes things get lost in the translation, which is something I really love a lot (let's talk for three hours about Swedish pop, OK?). This song is the most beautiful thing I've heard in years for its simplicity, its masterful songwriting, and its painstakingly stark execution. You will stop breathing when you listen to it.

14. M83 - Midnight City: I first heard this song with everyone else when Midnight City dropped and the entire collective of music critics in the world had one, giant simultaneous erection. Then I heard it the next day in a coffee shop, and immediately thought, "Hey. I INTIMATELY know that song. What song is that?" It had the effect of a particularly stirring movie score; something that has imprint on you permanently and perfectly after just one listen. In many ways, this may be the perfect song. You could listen to it anywhere and with anyone, and it will belong. It's like that friend that everyone is following on Twitter, but no one actually ever gets to hang out with. But they want to. They desperately want to.

13. Fleet Foxes - Battery Kinzie: Helplessness Blues was one of those records I listened to privately in my room while I was getting ready for work. The sun kind of cracked open and filled my room with these warm slices on the hardwood floor, and this was the soundtrack to that in every way. "Battery Kinzie" is my favorite because it's something you can stomp to, and in that way I think it translates nicely from that whispering, silent morning language to the bearded, red-wine-and-chocolates after dinner language that emerges when you're around a bunch of twenty-somethings in the south.

12. Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand: I'll agree with most people who felt disappointed by Los Campesinos!'s 2011 effort, but I'm grateful they made an effort at all. This is one of the most wonderfully erratic bands in the world, and a new release is a rare, blissfully honest glimpse into a weird party you weren't invited to (and would you have gone if you WERE invited?). This track, though, is the exception to the sort of boring, over-produced rule of the album. Gareth Campesinos shines here as we all desperately want him to: crazy as fuck, and he's gonna dance 'til it goes away.

11. Kanye West and Jay-Z - Otis: First of all, I'll say right out that I liked this collaboration. I didn't find it disappointing at all. So just... deal with that. Second, these are the two people who are most capable of using (and not abusing) an Otis Redding sample. I love soul samples in hip-hop music as a general rule, so this one pleased me. Finally, this song is short, sweet, pretty unpretentious (for a Kanye/ Jay-Z cut), and extremely listenable. Essentially, this is candy. And I like when that is on the radio.

10. Jill Scott Feat. Doug E. Fresh - All Cried Out: THANK YOU, UNIVERSE. This song was exactly what broken-up-with me needed. EXACTLY. When I said, "Hey World, can I please please have a song that will help me get over my ex?" The world said, "Here you go, Sophie, here is Jill Scott." And that was the moment I believed in magic, because this track is fresh and simple and not over-produced at all. It is the clean-cut kind of thing that you need when you are a month out of a long-term relationship. On top of that, Jill Scott is vocally at her best here. Perhaps most exciting of all, though, is that Doug E. Fresh does the best beat boxing I have maybe EVER HEARD. There aren't even any instruments on this cut until 1:25 into it, and it doesn't for even a SECOND feel like something an a cappella group at your college could have ever performed, ever. (Oh yeah, and when the instrument comes in, it's a '20s era, brite-as-fuck, upright jazz piano. Was this song actually written explicitly to please me?)

9. Atlas Sound - Angel Is Broken: I love the album Parallax like a family member. I think this is one of those precious few albums that you need to just sit with and listen to from beginning to end without interruption to experience its full effect, though, which is why I think I was initially confused by the hype around Atlas Sound this year. I felt particularly boggled by the loads blown over the album's single, "Mona Lisa." Which is fine. But honestly, it can't stand on its own two feet the way that "Angel Is Broken" can, which moves around in a bluesier (is that a word?) way, making it more accessible. Still, to really get this album, sit down with it in the dark for an hour. You'll get it, trust me.

8. Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D.: This is wonderfully impossible to get out of your head. It's one of those very unique rap songs that combines really extraordinary production with solid rapping. The message here is biting and rich, if veiled: "Man, no wonder our lives is caught up/ In the daily superstition/ That the word is bout to end/ Who gives a f-ck? We never do listen." It's a fascinating generational piece, and it asks a lot more questions than it answers. Of course, this track is drowning in drug references. But there's something more happening here that makes this a very powerful track.

7. tUnE-yArDs - Powa: tUnE-yArDs' WHOKILL was the soundtrack of my summer; I played it loud in my bedroom with the front door swung open and the air conditioner clacking. I danced around alone every androgynous, genius track like I had just discovered my feet. That's the overall effect of the album, and "Powa" is the stand-out here, ballsy and psychedelic, with a crash-landing rhythm that gives you Elvis-hips. This is the stuff of legends.

6. St. Vincent - Cruel: As someone who secretly majored in poetry-writing (really), I have a huge fetish for dichotomous juxtapositions. It's hard for me to admit, for example, how much I like the "Stuck In The Middle With You" scene from Resevoir Dogs. But I like it. A lot. St. Vincent plays with this trick a lot, and has dressed it up and down on her last two studio releases. While it's been done before, it's never been done with the brightness and brilliance of St. Vincent, and "Cruel" is the epitome of sweet-and-sour songwriting. This song haunts you when you sleep. It gets under your skin in all the best ways.

5. Drake - Headlines: I have no problem with how much Drake lets us in. I know so much about this guy's failed relationships and daddy issues that I feel like he was in my sophomore year poetry class. And I like it! I find it refreshing, actually. Radio rappers like to rap mostly about drugs and guns and sex, and so I like to hear Drake ponder his rise to the top. Needless to say, he's a really good rapper. Maybe this is rap for the formerly-emo black-haired set. But that's totally me. And isn't it us all?

4. Beyonce - Countdown: Is this a perfect song? This may be a perfect song. This is the song that hits you right in the heart THE FIRST TIME YOU HEAR IT. You hear it, and you look up from whatever the fuck you were doing, and you realize your life is different now that you've heard it. And every time you hear it after that, you're trying to choreograph a better dance to it. But you're not going to choreograph anything that even comes close to the video Beyonce put together for it, so don't even try. I hate Beyonce. I just hate how good she is at being Beyonce. It's truly irritating. Fuck Beyonce.

3. Youth Lagoon - July: I'm in LOVE with Youth Lagoon, a.k.a. Trevor Powers, who apparently just sits in his bedroom and makes this gauzey, immensely positive, sugar-coated shoegazer pop music all day. I would marry him in one minute. Every single song he's put out just does it for me on so many levels. This one, for example, builds PERFECTLY; improving exponentially with every level. The only song I can compare it to that has ever worked for me in any way even remotely similar is the ideal "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene. Do you remember how you felt when you first heard that song? That's how I feel, like, every time I listen to Youth Lagoon. This is music that makes me love music. This is music that gets me out of bed in the morning.

2. Widowspeak - Gun Shy: This quiet little single came out of left field and stole my heart. It sounds like the theme song to a hopelessly glamorous forties-era detective Western movie. Is that even a thing? That's what this sounds like. The lead singer and songwriter Molly Hamilton is perfectly restrained in everything she does; she constantly sounds like a girl wrapped up in Band-Aids, which I find beautiful and sad. I want this to play at my funeral, please. Take note.

1. Lana Del Rey - Video Games: I don't get where Lana Del Rey came from. Technically, she used to be another musician named Elizabeth Grant. When she was Elizabeth Grant, everyone will be fast to tell you, she did not make very good music. But then she took on this Nancy Sinatra-esque '60s persona and suddenly she creates music that is intensely fresh, sad, poppy, strange, and brutal. This is unquestionably her best song (the others are loopier and dancier, but still interesting). Lyrically, it makes you dizzy. Musically, it brings you to your knees. When I first heard this song, I couldn't listen to anything else for an entire week. That's the mark of the song-of-the-year if I ever heard one. I'm falling over waiting for something more than an EP from her.