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Colleen Green “U Coulda Been An A”

There’s been a lot of Ramones in Colleen Green’s music all along, but lately she’s made Ramones pastiche the focus of her work. The Ramones aesthetic frames her songwriting skills in a very flattering way, particularly in her talent for expressing her complex neuroses very plainly. By tapping into Joey Ramone’s charming guilelessness, she embraces an earnest vulnerability while dialing down some of the darkest feelings on her last album, I Want to Grow Up. She’s not undermining herself so much as putting a more light-hearted spin on her anxieties. “U Coulda Been An A” is all post-breakup angst, but it’s played like a joke: Hey, you coulda made this work, but whatever, buddy! It’s good to have perspective.

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