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February 3, 2020 9:59 AM   Subscribe

Looking for indie songs, preferably sung by women, whose lyrics follow this similar pattern and repeat. Come on inside!

Really feeling these female-fronted indie-esque bands who have repetitive lines about how :Noun: can't :verb: the way :noun: :verbs:, mostly pertaining to love. Bonus if it's Mitski because I feel like there's a song of her's out there like this. Here's what I mean:

Lucy Dacus singing "I can't love you like you want me to" throughout Bite the Hand

Karen O in the ever-iconic M.A.P.S: "Wait, they don't love you like I love you"

and weirdo-extraordinaire, and light of my life Frances Quinlan ending Tibetan Pop Stars with "Nobody deserves you the way that I do"
posted by FirstMateKate to Media & Arts (11 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
It's not exact, but your question made me think of Linger by Jonatha Brooke
posted by wellred at 10:20 AM on February 3, 2020


If I loved you, by Delta Rae, fits your pattern almost exactly.
posted by Adridne at 10:22 AM on February 3, 2020


You don't want to face me when you
You don't want to make me when you
You don't want to take me when you

The song You don’t wanna is on Tricky’s album but it fits your pattern pretty well, has a sort of Eurhythmics feel, sung by Ambersunshower.
posted by SaltySalticid at 10:31 AM on February 3, 2020


Some candidates, if I get the gist:
Love is Not Love ("but I don't know how to love you" ) – Cate LeBon
You Can Take Your Time (...don't screw up) – Nina Nastasia. I think she uses this pattern a few times in her discography, but that's the one that comes to mind.
"I warned you, you didn't believe me", now Listen Up – The Gossip.
posted by bendybendy at 10:37 AM on February 3, 2020 [1 favorite]


Julia Jacklin - Head Alone or maybe Don't Know How To Keep Loving You are both in this vein, if not matching the word pattern perfectly.
posted by pipeski at 10:38 AM on February 3, 2020 [1 favorite]


Mitski, "Nobody"?
And do absolutely listen to Cate Le Bon's entire catalog. "Crab Day" doesn't have a single bad song on the album.
posted by thenewbrunette at 10:57 AM on February 3, 2020 [1 favorite]


On my phone, so i can't link it, but that sounds like Mitski's Best American Girl.

Lyrics from the song:
"Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I finally do
And you're an all-American boy
I guess I couldn't help trying to be the best American girl"
posted by August Fury at 10:57 AM on February 3, 2020


History Eraser by Courtney Barnett has a variant on this pattern : “In my brain / I rearrange/ the letters on the page / to spell your name”
posted by q*ben at 11:16 AM on February 3, 2020


Sharon Von Etten's Every Time the Sun Comes Up seems like it would fit the bill.
posted by minervous at 12:08 PM on February 3, 2020 [1 favorite]


Mitski's Lonesome Love has a similar line, though it doesn't repeat:

"'Cause nobody butters me up like you, and Nobody fucks me like me".
posted by thebots at 12:51 PM on February 3, 2020


Snail Mail’s Pristine?
posted by Thorzdad at 3:04 PM on February 3, 2020


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