They say the best songs are those that make you feel like they're speaking directly to you--to your own unique experience, your own emotions, your own circumstances that sometimes seem so alienating and lonely. And the wonderful thing about a song like that is that it reminds you you're NOT so alone after all. Other people out there share the same experiences, the same feelings, they react the same ways. And one of them wrote a SONG about it!
Laura Marling's "My Manic and I," off her debut EP late last year, was That Song for me. The one that made me go, "Oh thank GOD I'm not crazy. Or at least if I am, there's more of us out there." And now I've finally seen the video, and that feeling was multiplied by about a thousand. So if you're like me and have an affinity for Alice in Wonderland and gloomy boys on the wrong side of sanity, this one's for you.
