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‘Morrissey’s lyrics are untouchable, but I don’t want to think about him’: Lauren Mayberry’s honest playlist
The Chvrches singer grew up on the Spice Girls and has a complicated relationship with the Smiths. But how come she knows so much about 90s country?
Don’t Take the Girl by Tim McGraw was the epitome of 90s mainstream American country, but only now can I appreciate it as such an amazing example of narrative songwriting. The way Sinéad O’Connor delivers the lines, and having watched the documentary where she said what she was feeling about her mother when she sang: “All the flowers that you planted, mama / In the back yard, all died when you went away” has me in tears. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.
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