The Sun In Your Cold World

Soccer Mommy “Last Girl”

“Last Girl” is an essentially self-deprecating song about feeling insecure because you feel like you’re vastly inferior to your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, but I like that it doesn’t quite tip over into self-loathing. It’s never really about this guy, or even herself so much as it’s about how much she admires this other girl. The way she sings about her – and the way the song has this bright, springy melody – it sounds a lot more like a crush song about her than this guy they’ve both dated. Envy is a theme that runs through nearly all of the songs on Soccer Mommy’s Clean, but it’s never this petty sort of jealousy. It’s more about her trying to figure out what she wants to be. This song reminds me a bit of when Thom Yorke sings “I want to be someone else or I’ll explode” in “Talk Show Host.” It’s the same sort of feeling, but Sophie Allison just has a really specific person in mind.

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