Your Just Can’t Evens

Speedy Ortiz “You Hate the Title”

“You Hate the Title” is so sunny and catchy that I’d believe it if you told me Sadie Dupuis wrote it as an audition to become a professional jingle writer. The perky tone suits her melodic style and brings out a playful sweetness in her voice that makes it so that this song about dealing with criticism comes out sounding good-natured and self-aware rather than peevish and wildly insecure. This is mostly an expression of mild exasperation with someone who basically likes what she’s doing but can’t help but complain about the details. At first this sounds like it’s about the audience, but I think it’s more likely about collaborators and producers – you want to please them, you want them to do their job and push you, but you’re also just trying to do your thing as honestly as you can.

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