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- Author: Emily Wibberley
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Max
I REMEMBER EXACTLY what song was playing when I started my car on the
night I got my heart broken.
I cranked the key in the ignition. The radio came on—Joni Mitchell’s
“The Same Situation” filled the interior of the used Camry I’d gotten for
two thousand dollars when I graduated from high school. Feeling foolish,
pretending I was fine, I let the song play, even while I knew it would
entwine itself with the day’s sad memories. I drove home on Los Angeles’s
silent freeways, recognizing in the pit of my stomach how Joni’s voice
would haunt me from then on.
Which is why a decade later I find myself hovering my finger over my
laptop’s space bar, unable to press play.
Open on Spotify is Riley Wynn’s new album, framed on my screen in
the small office I share with my sister in Harcourt Homes, the senior
assisted-living facility I run with her help. It’s just me in here right now,
waiting for myself, ignoring the spreadsheets printed out on my desk.
January is the coldest the San Fernando Valley gets. The California chill
surrounds me, invading my fingertips, expectant, urging. Listen, Max. Just
listen.
I know what will happen when I start the first song. If I start the first
song. The voice of the country’s new favorite pop prophetess will steal into
my soul the way only she can.
I should listen, I know I should. Hit play. Let Riley’s music—her magic
—ensnare me. Especially “Until You,” the undisputed song of the year. I’ve
had to work to escape hearing it because it hides around every corner in the
labyrinth of the same songs every radio station plays.
I haven’t entirely succeeded, instead hearing snatches in the supermarket
or when I’m changing stations. Then there are the billboards, Riley looming
over my commute on Sunset. She stands in the wedding dress she’s wearing
on the album cover, looking caught off guard while fire licks the edges of
her veil. The Rolling Stone email with her featured interview hit my inbox a
week ago.
Yet, I’ve resisted Riley’s new music until today, when I suddenly knew I
could hold out no longer—gravity was pulling me. Of what heavenly body,
I don’t know. Stars have gravity, but so do black holes. Like one inside the
other, Riley’s eyes stare out from my laptop screen.
My hesitation is sort of pathetic, I know. In fairness, however, not many
people in the world face the question I do when it comes to Riley Wynn’s
new album.
How do you listen to The Breakup Record when one of the songs is
about you?
Maybe we should form a support group—me and the eleven other
people Riley’s immortalized on her chart-smashing second LP. It’s the
gripping, genius conceit of her new collection of songs—each one centers
on a romantic split of Riley’s life.
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