Saving All This Stuff Inside Me

Kate Nash “Fri-end?”

I love that the conflict at the center of this song is so simple: She is upset that her friend has been treating her poorly, and that’s pretty much it. There’s no suggestion of anything deeper, or some kind of subtext. It’s just a direct, relatable feeling invested with a lot of energy and spirit. I’m not totally certain what Nash’s musical inspiration for this could be – she might be reaching back to the 60s and garage rock – but the best bits of this remind me a lot of The B-52’s on songs like “Hero Worship.” It’s a similar mix of being knowingly camp and just a little unhinged.

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