The people on Myspace know what they’re talking about. Those opening chords of “It’s A Hit” kicked in and it was Jenny (a woman!) singing about a monkey (okay?!) and using the word pair “opposable thumbs” (some Dane Cook-level comedian used those words first in a joke I stole from Limewire because he’s a genius and this is probably plagiarism!) - so about ten seconds in I hit “next.” The song must’ve been an exception to the rule. ![]() So when I peeled the cellophane and stickers off More Adventurous in the Tower parking lot and popped the CD into the player of my ’93 Camry, I immediately regretted the purchase. ![]() I remember realizing this was the case and thinking to myself, “I just relate to guys more. Often they were dudes I was also weaving elaborate, tragic crushes on (Elliott Smith! Let me heal u!), but across the board they were white dudes with guitars from America or England or Australia singing about boning and drugs and the towns they lived in. ![]() This was also at a time when I was very firmly in a high school zone of only listening to music written and performed by dudes. This was before YouTube or Google or anything that would’ve really enabled my vetting the band before buying their record, so I didn’t know they were female-fronted, and I didn’t know what they were gonna sound like. I worked in a record store at the time, but we didn’t have it in stock, so I made the sacrilege move of driving to a neighboring town and buying it at a Tower records. ![]() I bought Rilo Kiley’s More Adventurous ten years ago this week because every attractive person on Myspace was suddenly listing it in their favorite music, and I needed to know what was going on.
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