#Dr. Natalie Lambert

[anakinsafterlife]

Just started re-watching one of my oldest fandom sources, the 1990s Canadian vampire show Forever Knight. It's still fantastic and alluring, but one of the things that really has changed for me is my view of Dr. Natalie Lambert, the human coroner for the City of Toronto who is attempting to find a cure for vampirism for the eponymous character, Nick Knight, a 13th century vampire who wallows in Romantic agonies for the thousands of people he's killed.

Now, when I was a teenager, I hated Natalie. There are a couple of reasons for this, but mostly I shipped Nick and Lucien Lacroix, his vampire maker/master/father, who the show very clearly sets up as both a familial *and* romantic match to Nick (in a subtextual 90s kind of way), as well as his frequent foe and foil. Lacroix was a 2000 year old former Roman General with a very sexy voice and a thorough obsession for his vampiric progeny. He was fascinating and exciting, while Natalie was frankly a bit of a nag who nagged more frequently as the show progressed.

Watching it now, though.... Natalie is clever and funny, with an engaging scientific curiosity. Most significantly, she is clearly working at a disadvantage because Nick only ever claims to want a cure for his state, while often working at cross purposes with her efforts to help him. She spends most of her (very scarce) free time engineering dietary supplements for Nick while attempting to formulate a kind of vampire vaccine. Nick spends half of his time spitting out what she makes him, and when he does take her concoctions, he often ignores her detailed instructions on how to safely act with his altered or reduced abilities. He also frequently goes back to his vampire sister/lover Janette, while concealing this from Natalie. As for his relationship with Lacroix, he interacts with him frequently, going to him for help and support, while only conveying the worst of their relationship to Natalie, leading her to believe that he hates his maker unequivocally, when that clearly isn't the case.

As for the aforementioned nagging, Natalie had a right to it! Nick frankly leads her on for the majority of the series, whether consciously or unconsciously, with the notion that someday they can be together. Meanwhile she gets older and older, and has to demand more attention from a man who is so ambivalent and perpetually dissatisfied that he eventually finds fault with everyone close to him.

Poor Nat. You didn't deserve your...Last Knight.

[maaarine]

‘I Had Never Felt Worse’: Long Covid Sufferers Are Struggling With Exercise (Melinda Wenner Moyer, The New York Times, Feb 12 2022)

“When Natalie Hollabaugh tested positive for Covid-19 in March 2020, her recovery felt extremely slow. 

Eighteen months later, she was still suffering from a litany of symptoms, including fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches and joint pain. 

She saw a cardiologist and a pulmonologist, who both ruled out other health problems, she said. 

And they advised her to start exercising, suggesting that some of her symptoms may have been a result of being out of shape. 

So Ms. Hollabaugh dutifully began using an exercise bike, speed walking on a treadmill and walking her dogs several miles a day.

But instead of helping, her new exercise regimen only exacerbated her symptoms. (…)

The researchers found that nobody in the study had abnormal chest CT scans, anemia or problems with lung or heart function, suggesting that organ injury wasn’t to blame for their symptoms. 

Yet when the long Covid patients exercised on a stationary bicycle, Dr. Systrom found that some veins and arteries were not working properly, preventing oxygen from being delivered efficiently to their muscles.

Nobody knows why these blood vessel problems occur, Dr. Systrom said, but another one of his recent studies suggested that long Covid patients experience damage to a certain kind of nerve fiber involved in how organs and blood vessel function. (…)

Dr. Lambert pointed out that some patients with long Covid are also diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (or POTS), a disorder that affects blood flow. 

In people who have POTS, “the nervous system can’t regulate the things that it’s supposed to automatically control, like heart rate, blood pressure, sweating and body temperature,” she said. 

Yet “those are all things that when you’re exercising need to be regulated properly.”

Some doctors also point to parallels between patients with long Covid and those with chronic fatigue syndrome, who have severe fatigue, memory and cognitive problems, and often muscle or joint pain. 

For decades, physicians advised chronic fatigue patients that exercise would improve their symptoms, but for many patients, exercise actually made their symptoms worse and now is no longer recommended.

In 2021, Dr. Systrom and his team studied 160 chronic fatigue patients, and found that when they exercised, they experienced many of the same blood vessel problems observed in long Covid patients, while control subjects did not. 

“We’re essentially finding the exact same thing” when it comes to potential mechanisms, he said.”

[nicholaslucien]

Forever Knight - Dr Natalie Lambert by Nicholas Lucien Via Flickr:

Dr Natalie Lambert, MD.  Nick’s friend and doctor

Forever Knight - Dr Natalie Lambert, Colorized Black & White Image, Red Jacket, Poster Edges Effect on Colored Image Copyright belongs to Sony/Tristar

[odditycollector]

The most inspiring character ever invented is probably Dr. Natalie Lambert from one of the classic Canadian Vampire Cop shows.

A dead body climbs off its morgue slab and her immediate reaction, in roughly equal proportion:

1. Ohhh I can't not fuck him.

2. I am gonna do SO MUCH mad science and submit ZERO ethics forms.

[themedicalstate]

“I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors

By Pam Belluck (The New York Times). Image: Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job. Hiroko Masuike.

The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.

After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.

Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her Covid-19 symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.

Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.

“I leave the room and I can’t remember what the patient just said,” she said, adding that if she hadn’t exhausted her medical leave she’d take more time off.

“It scares me to think I’m working,” Ms. Mizelle, 53, said. “I feel like I have dementia.”

It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and grasping for everyday words. Increasingly, Covid survivors say brain fog is impairing their ability to work and function normally.

“There are thousands of people who have that,” said Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious disease at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who has already seen hundreds of survivors at a post-Covid clinic he leads. “The impact on the work force that’s affected is going to be significant.

Scientists aren’t sure what causes brain fog, which varies widely and affects even people who became only mildly physically ill from Covid-19 and had no previous medical conditions. Leading theories are that it arises when the body’s immune response to the virus doesn’t shut down or from inflammation in blood vessels leading to the brain.

Image: Lisa Mizelle, a nurse practitioner, has been forgetting routine lab tests and terminology on the job. Wes Frazer for The New York Times.

Confusion, delirium and other types of altered mental function, called encephalopathy, have occurred during hospitalization for Covid-19 respiratory problems, and a study found such patients needed longer hospitalizations, had higher mortality rates and often couldn’t manage daily activities right after hospitalization.

But research on long-lasting brain fog is just beginning. A French report in August on 120 patients who had been hospitalized found that 34 percent had memory loss and 27 percent had concentration problems months later.

In a soon-to-be-published survey of 3,930 members of Survivor Corps, a group of people who have connected to discuss life after Covid, over half reported difficulty concentrating or focusing, said Natalie Lambert, an associate research professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, who helped lead the study. It was the fourth most common symptom out of the 101 long-term and short-term physical, neurological and psychological conditions that survivors reported. Memory problems, dizziness or confusion were reported by a third or more respondents.

“It is debilitating,” said Rick Sullivan, 60, of Brentwood, Calif., who’s had episodes of brain fog since July after overcoming a several-week bout with Covid-19 breathing problems and body aches. “I become almost catatonic. It feels as though I am under anesthesia.”

Wreaking havoc on the job

Image: Erica Taylor, a lawyer, has had episodes where her brain feels like “white static.” She couldn’t recognize her car in her apartment complex’s parking lot and had to take a leave from her job. Lynsey Weatherspoon for The New York Times.

When Ms. Taylor, 31, contracted the virus in mid-June, she thought she’d need only a brief break from working as a lawyer for an Atlanta nonprofit helping low-income tenants.

But she became so disoriented that she washed her TV remote with her laundry and had to return a foster dog she’d recently taken in because she couldn’t trust herself to care for a pet.

One morning, “everything in my brain was white static,” she said. “I was sitting on the edge of the bed, crying and feeling ‘something’s wrong, I should be asking for help,’ but I couldn’t remember who or what I should be asking. I forgot who I was and where I was.”

By July, she thought she’d improved and told her boss she could return. But after another “white static��� episode, she messaged him: “‘I’m scared. I really want to get back to work. But, I keep getting really tired and really confused.’” He suggested she rest and heal.

She resumed working in early August, but her mind wandered and reading emails was “like reading Greek,” she said. By September, her employer urged a 13-week leave.

“They finally landed on ‘You’re going to have to step away,’” said Ms. Taylor, who requested to volunteer for the nonprofit while on leave but was told no. “I’m gutted, to be honest.”

Image: Mr. Reagan looks through a book of photographs from his trip to Paris in March. He can’t remember anything about it. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.

Mr. Reagan, 50, who spent five days in and out of hospitals, initially resumed work as a vascular specialist for a company that makes stents and catheters.

But finger tremors and seizures, neurological symptoms that sometimes accompany brain fog, meant “there is no way I’m going to go into surgery and teach a doctor how to suture an artery,” he said.

In meetings, “I can’t find words,” said Mr. Reagan, who has now taken a leave. “I feel like I sound like an idiot.”

Before Ms. Mizelle contracted the virus in July and was hospitalized with pneumonia for five days in August, she’d treat six patients an hour by herself at her clinic in Huntsville, Ala. But recently, she said, “I told our scheduler I can’t work alone because I’m slow in thinking, I’m dizzy, and I just need somebody else there to work with me.”

Sometimes in exam rooms, she said, “I’m trying to be slick with the patient so they don’t know, because you don’t want your provider to be in a fog, which is very scary.”

She’s forgotten to order cultures for urinary infections, but a lab technician caught it, saying “I’ve got you, Lisa,” Ms. Mizelle said.

“As far as I know, I have not made a mistake,” she said, adding that things have recently improved slightly. “I haven’t killed anybody yet.”

Ms. Mizelle in front of her home. Her colleagues have been backstopping her when she sees patients at her urgent care clinic. Wes Frazer for The New York Times.

Searching for answers to a mysterious cause

Brain fog’s cause is a mystery partly because symptoms are so varied.

“The simplest answer is people still have persistent immune activation after the initial infection subsided,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, chief of infections of the nervous system at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Inflammation in blood vessels, or cells lining the vessels, may be involved, said Dr. Serena Spudich, chief of neurological infections and global neurology at Yale School of Medicine. Inflammatory molecules, released in effective immune responses, “can also be sort of toxins, particularly to the brain,” she said.

Tiny strokes may cause some symptoms, said Dr. Dona Kim Murphey, a neurologist and neuroscientist, who herself has experienced post-Covid neurological issues, including “alien hand syndrome,” in which she felt a “super-bizarre sense of my left hand, like I didn’t understand why it was positioned the way it was and I was really captivated by it.”

Other possible causes are autoimmune reactions “when antibodies mistakenly attack nerve cells,” Dr. Spudich said.

Symptoms like tingling or numbness can occur when damaged nerves send wrong signals, said Dr. Allison Navis, a neuro-infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Health System. Some people with brain fog still experience lung or heart issues, which can exacerbate neurological symptoms.

So far, MRI scans haven’t indicated damaged brain areas, neurologists say.

Dr. Murphey, scientific director for a brain-wave technology company, who couldn’t summon the word “work” in a recent meeting, said research is crucial so symptoms are taken seriously.

“People say in a disparaging way ‘It’s all in their head,’” she said. “In this case it is literally in our heads, and it is very real.”

Forgetting Paris, and how to say toothbrush

This summer, Mr. Reagan, the vascular medicine specialist, turned the stove on to cook eggs and then absent-mindedly left to walk the dog, Wolff-Parkinson-White, named after a cardiac arrhythmia. Returning to discover a dangerously hot empty pan, he panicked and hasn’t cooked since.

He’s forgotten this past Christmas, New Year’s and the Paris vacation in March that he arranged for his partner Mustafa Al Niama’s 40th birthday.

“I look at all my pictures of Paris, trying to remember,” he said, showing a selfie of the couple at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. “We went and saw a Madonna concert, we went to the Eiffel Tower, we went to the Catacombs. And I remember nothing, nothing at all.”

Mr. Sullivan navigates a spectrum of cognitive speed bumps. In the mildest state, which he calls “fluffy,” his head feels heavy. In the middling phase, “fuzzy,” he said, “I become angry when people talk to me because it hurts my brain to try and pay attention.” Most severe is “fog,” when “I cannot function” and “I sit and stare, unmotivated to move, my mind racing.”

Even slight mental or physical exertion can trigger his fog, and Mr. Sullivan, laid off before the pandemic from a senior position with a photography company, said many days he could manage only two responsibilities: “Clean the kitty litter and pick up dog poop.”

Even that was anxiety-provoking. “To me, it was a series of 15 or 16 tasks,” he said. “Oh, my God, I have to find a bag to put the litter in, then I have to take the lid off.”

Julia Donahue, 61, of Somers, N.Y., struggles to speak in fluid sentences, painful because she’s long enjoyed playing Abigail Adams in historical programs.

“Now, Abigail is just a bunch of dresses in my closet,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to give a 45-minute address.”

Recently, she couldn’t even recall “toothbrush,” saying to a friend “‘You know, the thing that makes your teeth clean.’”

Experts advise people with brain fog to see doctors to rule out other medical conditions and treat remaining physical symptoms.

Ms. Mizelle, Mr. Reagan, Ms. Taylor and others are consulting cardiologists and other specialists, along with neurologists.

Doctors don’t know whether symptoms will improve or evaporate with time. Some patients are devising workarounds or makeshift recovery exercises.

Mr. Reagan, who’s also lost his sense of direction, follows a therapist’s suggestion to walk to random locations near his home in Lower Manhattan. Recently, he chose the New York Stock Exchange, several blocks away. He wrote down directions and read them repeatedly before setting out with his partner and their dog.

At the first corner, his mind faltered. “Left?” he asked Mr. Al Niama, who informed him they should turn right.

In mid-September, Mr. Sullivan thought the worst was over, but at the grocery store with his wife, he developed “full-blown fog,” gripped the cart and “wandered around the store like a zombie,” he said.

Days later, he was lifting three-pound dumbbells — nothing compared with his pre-Covid 65-pound routine — when “Bam, the fog hit me,” he recalled, realizing, “I’m not over this.” Then he broke down, sobbing.

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh it’s Catherine Disher aka Dr. Natalie Lambert from Forever Knight!

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

3 Year Anniversay of my Musical Trading Site!

It has been three years since I officially established my trading site! For those of you who don’t know I am https://its-all-green.weebly.com/ to celebrate I am gifting some of my audio masters from some of my favourite shows since I wouldnt be where I am today if it wasn’t for the kindness and generosity of others. Feel free to list them on your own site and enjoy!

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Only Fools and Horses || West End || 5th October 2019 || Matinee

https://mega.nz/folder/U41gzCaD#gEcUbaMMZ0AN-BS4gKf1Pw

​Cast: Tom Bennett (Del Boy), Ryan Hutton (Rodney), Philip Childs (u/s Grandad/Uncle Albert), Dianne Pilkington (Raquel), Lisa Bridge (u/s Cassandra), Peter Baker (Trigger), Andy Mace (u/s Boycie), Samantha Seager (Marlene), Bradley John (u/s Denzil), Andy Bryant (u/s Mickey Pearce), Peter Gallagher (Danny Driscoll), Adam Venus (Tony Driscoll), Lee Van Geelan (u/s Mike), Melanie Marshall (Mrs Obooko), Chris Bennett (Sid), Oscar Conolon Morrey (Dating Agent and Various) Notes: Its-all-green's master | Never to be sold except by me Tracked

Wicked || West End || 16th January 2019 || Matinee || Audio

https://mega.nz/folder/Ql0mWCZB#2U8j_OTwyQIgOKJ-uSPoAA

Cast: Aimee Fisher (u/s Elphaba), Maria Coyne (s/b Glinda), David Witts (Fiyero), Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible), Chris Jarman (u/s The Wizard), Jack Lansbury (Boq), Rosa O’Reilly (Nessarose), Rhidian Marc (u/s Doctor Dillamond) Notes: Recorded from the 2nd row || My master (It's-all-green's Master) Tracked and Untracked

Six || West End || 15th October 2019

https://mega.nz/folder/wht0QSiI#PK8ViLM1EylUKPqq4fUYFg

Cast: Jarneia Richard-Noel (Catherine of Aragon), Courtney Bowman (Anne Boleyn), Natalie Paris (Jane Seymour), Alexia McIntosh (Anna of Cleves), Vicki Manser (Katherine Howard), Danielle Steers (Catherine Parr) Notes: Danielle's and Courtney's first! Vickis first as principle Howards, it was also the musicals 500th performance for this run. Natalie has an emotional heart of stone. Includes Megasix video taken from the front row || Its-all-green's master, never to be sold

Bat Out of Hell || West End Dominion || 27th June 2018 || Matinee || Aduio

https://mega.nz/folder/xolCQSYB#uuQnl2O04_tlMdlsC2eNcA

Andrew Polec (Strat), Christina Bennington (Raven), Craig Ryder (u/s Falco), Hannah Ducharme (u/s Sloane), lex Thomas-Smith (Tink), Danielle Steers (Zahara), Wayne Robinson (Jagwire), Sam Toland (u/s Ledoux) Notes: Craig and Hannah's 2nd perfomance together, their first was the night before || My master (it's all green's master) || never to be sold ​Tracked

Waitress || West End || 27th March 2019 || Matinee

https://mega.nz/folder/11MzSQRL#3bvfOLnyqB8pxwq1H0wY6A

Cast: Katharine McPhee (Jenna), Marisha Wallace (Becky), Laura Baldwin (Dawn), David Hunter (Dr. Pomatter), Jack McBrayer (Ogie), Stephen Leask (Cal), Shaun Prendergast (Joe), Peter Hannah (Earl), Kelly Agbowu (Nurse Norma), Arabella Duffy (Lulu), Olivia Moore (Francine Pomatter), Charlotte Riby (Mother) Notes: Jack added this extra "hot coffee" bit after Never Ever getting rid of me, when I mentioned it at stage dorr he siad he wanted to "liven up the audience" the rest of the cast were trying so hard to not break character  || My Master (it's all green's master), never to be sold Tracked and Untracked

Hamilton || West End || 14th August 2019

https://mega.nz/folder/0w9QRYDa#d2SPn_iJaLdsPhfzjXKaCA

Cast: Stephenson Ardern-Sodje (u/s Alexander Hamilton), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Sifiso Mazibuko (Aaron Burr), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Dom Hartley-Harris (George Washington), Allyson Ava-Brown (Angelica Schuyler), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Courtney-Mae Briggs (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Waylon Jacobs (s/b King George III), Jack Butterworth (Samuel Seabury), Aaron Lee Lambert (Charles Lee), Curtis Angus (George Eacker), Leah Hill (The Bullet) Notes: Its-all-green's master, never to be sold except through me Tracked  

& Juliet || West End || 4th December 2019

https://mega.nz/folder/h5kQgAQD#G9YpCdn5aZG0h_536E36hA

Cast: Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet), Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo), Cassidy Janson (Anne Hathaway), Ivan de Freitas (u/s William Shakespeare), David Bedella (Lance), Tim Mahendran (Francois), Arun Blair-Mangat (May), Melanie La Barrie (Nurse), David Bedella (Lance), Jocasta Almgil (Lady Capulet/Nell), Christopher Parkinson (s/w Lord Cauplet/Sly), Rhian Duncan (Imogen), Danielle Fiamanya (Lucy), Kieran Lai (Kempe), Nathan Lorainey-Dineen (Gregory), Grace Mouat (Judith), Antoine Murray-Straughan (Augustine), Kerri Norville (Susanna), Dillon Scott-Lewis (Richard), Alex Tranter (Henry), Kirstie Skivington (Eleanor) Notes: My master (its-all-green's master). Record from the front row, includes curtain call video (though this is mostly Jordan (sorry not sorry)). Untracked but with a few tracked songs

[savewritingnsw]

Save Writing NSW

An open letter to Create NSW and the NSW Minister for the Arts

We, as writers and active members of the literary community, were dismayed by Create NSW’s decision not to grant Writing NSW Multi-Year Organisations Funding in their latest round, despite the fact that Writing NSW was recommended for funding.

This decision demonstrates the ongoing devaluation of literature within the Australian arts funding landscape. We know literature is the most popular artform in the country, with 87% of Australian reading some form of literary work in any given year, yet in this round Create NSW offered only 5.7% of their ongoing funding to literature organisations.

The decision to defund Writing NSW carries a particular sting. Writing NSW is the leading organisation representing writers in a state with a long literary history and one that is home to many of Australia’s leading publishers, writers, literary agents and other core participants in the Australian literary industry.

Writing NSW is an important stepping-stone for writers at the beginning of their careers, providing high quality professional development programs, and it also employs emerging and established writers to deliver and lead these programs. For decades the organisation has provided high-quality courses, seminars, workshops, festivals, events, grants and literary prizes. In putting such programs at risk, Create NSW is jeopardising both an entry point and an ongoing support system for writers.

Macquarie University research shows that the average income of an Australian author from their practice is $12,900. The current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic makes the situation of writers even more precarious. Writing NSW offers key employment opportunities to writers, through teaching, publication, speaking engagements and both curatorial and judging positions. The removal of these opportunities will mean many writers will not be able to maintain the other income streams that support their writing careers.

The removal of $175,000 from a single source would be catastrophic for any business – not-for-profit or otherwise. For a government funding body to enact such a blunt economic withdrawal in the midst of a global pandemic and without concern for the economic flow-on effect to hundreds of industry professionals is deeply distressing.

We call on Create NSW to reverse this decision and ask them to reveal their future strategies for arts funding and how they plan to rectify the disparity in funding between other funded artforms and literature.

As writers, we will never accept the loss of a vibrant, essential cultural network such as Writing NSW.

What you can do We invite anyone affected by Create NSW’s decision – writers, publishers, literary agents, illustrators, readers alike – to co-sign this letter. You can copy and customise this letter to draft a version from your own point of view on this matter to send to a Member of Parliament.

To co-sign this letter, add your name here: shorturl.at/dERX6

Signatories

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Tom Langshaw, Editor, Penguin Random House Brooke Maddison Monica O'Brien, ProducerAmbience Entertainment Jacinta Dimase, Literary AgentJacinta Dimase Management Jane Novak, Literary AgentJane Novak Literary Agency Sarah Hollingsworth, Arts Organisation ManagerMarketing and Communications Manager, Writers Victoria Barbara Temperton, Writer Sandra van Doorn, Publisher Red Paper Kite Alex Eldridge, Writer Karen Beilharz, Writer, editor, comic creator Esther Rivers, Writer, editor, poet Jane Pochon, Board Member, lawyer and reader Zoe Walton, Publisher, Penguin Random House Eliza Twaddell Alison Green, CEO, Board Member, Pantera Press Emma Rafferty, Editor Sarah Swarbrick, Writer Dayne Kelly, Literary Agent, RGM Léa Antigny, Head of Publicity and Communications, Pantera Press Jenny Green, Finance, Pantera Press Sarah Begg, Writer Mark Harding, Writer, Brand Manager, Social Media and Content Specialist Shanulisa Prasad, Bookseller Katy McEwen, Rights Manager, Pantera Press Olivia Fricot, Content Writer/Bookseller, Booktopia Jack Peck, Writer, Open Genre Group Convenor, Writing NSW, Retired Kathy Skantzos, Writer, Editor Serene Conneeley, Author, Editor Kerry Littrich, Writer Merran Hughes, Creative Cassie Watson, Writer Lisa Seltzer, Copywriter, Social Media Manager and Marketing Consultant Gemma Noon, Writer and Librarian Tanya Tabone, Reader Laura Franks, Reader, Editor, Writer Dani Netherclift, Writer Who to contact We urge you to join us in advocating for Writing NSW and the state of funding for Australian literature, by contacting Create NSW, your NSW Member of Parliament, and the NSW Minister for the Arts.

Chris Keely Executive Director, Create NSW Email: chris.keely@create.nsw.gov.au

The Hon. Don Harwin, MLC Phone: (02) 8574 7200 Email: office@harwin.minister.nsw.gov.au

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The Hon. (Walt) Walter Secord, MLC Shadow Minister for the Arts Phone: (02) 9230 2111 Email: walt.secord@parliament.nsw.gov.au Ms. Cate Faehrmann, MLC Greens representative for Arts, Music, Night-Time Economy and Culture Phone: (02) 9230 3771 Email: cate.faehrmann@parliament.nsw.gov.au A full list of names and contact details for NSW State MPs is available here.

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‘Wind River’ - a tl;dr film review

Taylor Sheridan's harrowing neo-Western crime noir is a touching and relevant handling of the under-reported violence against women on Native American reservations, that falls just inches short of what’s needed. A classic trope in cinema of the Wild West is the limited reach of the arm of the law which, historically speaking, was down to the vast geographical distance between 'civilised' settlements during the Westward expansion. Brought up to date, in Wind River this remoteness is caused by Wyoming's extreme weather conditions - inhospitable to most - coupled with what the filmmaker alleges is an enduring and systemic lack of concern from the US government for the victims of violent crime in these areas, the majority of whom are descendants of Native Americans, and also female. The story plays out, for the most part, from the perspective of Cory Lambert (played by Jeremy Renner), a U.S Fish and Wildlife Service tracker assigned to the Wind River Indian Reservation, home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. While stalking a mountain lion, he stumbles upon the frozen body of Natalie Hanson (Kelsey Chow), a young Native American woman, and raises the alarm. The pathologist concludes that the death is due to exposure, but it is also clear that she died while running away from something - or someone.   For the most part, the film is underpinned by a sense of inevitability as it paces forward towards the reveal of its mystery, from one clue to the next, finding its reflection in the calm, collected assurance with which Cory Lambert tracks his prey. As he posits: "I don't catch wolves looking where they might be. I look where they've been." An expert hunter and marksman who is financially supporting his ex-wife and son, Cory appeals to the viewer as the ultimate positive traditional masculine stereotype. Despite being a 21st century divorced man, he displays the characteristics of the archetypal hero: skilled, wily, tough, yet also emotionally mature and sensitive (providing a literal shoulder to cry on for the men and women around him), and though he spends his job traversing vast swathes of snowy, unforgiving landscape as the territory's sole caretaker, he somehow still finds time to take his son horse riding. But when it comes to the crunch, he's prepared to serve up the cold dish of vigilante justice that we all expect from a crime thriller set in the deepest darkest West. This is prefaced, however, by the arrival of Jane Banner (played by Elizabeth Olsen), the junior FBI agent who is called, teeth-chattering, to his aid when Cory discovers Natalie's body in the snow. Awkward and inexperienced - without even a winter coat or snow boots - and yet full of stubborn resolve, Jane Banner is something of a paradox. Inappropriately dressed for the harsh weather due to having been flown in from Las Vegas - and admitting to merely being the "closest agent to the scene" - she is frustrated to find that the pathologist's report means that she can't secure any back-up from the Bureau, since the death hasn't been classed as a homicide. This powerlessness in the face of the bureaucracy surrounding the case exposes the cold indifference of the federal authorities to Native American plight. At the same time, she serves as a fiercely empathetic, feminine presence, whose visible distress as she learns more about the young Native American victims permits the viewer - as a fellow outsider - to take part in the mourning. 

It's clear by the end of the film that Cory Lambert and Jane Banner represent two contrasting forms of justice: Banner serving as a figurehead for the systematic magistracy of the US legal system - which, since the young country's origins, has been essentially opposed to the interests of Native American tribes - while Lambert symbolises the steely-eyed vigilantism of the Wild West, walking in the footprints of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and more recently Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. At the film's climax, Cory tells a wounded Jane that if she allows him to pursue the final fleeing assailant alone, he "won't be bringing him back", to which she concedes, relinquishing her role as an agent of federal law and instead resuming her alignment with the viewer, as simply a woman seeking a tangible reprisal for a despicable act of gendered sexual violence. 

It could be argued that where the story fails (as so many films have before it) is in its decision to place not only the power of retribution, but also arguably the story’s perspective, in Cory’s hands, who - for all his qualities as a positive masculine role model - is another white man. Once again, agency and ownership is taken away from both women and the Native American community and used to reinforce the oppressive power structures already in place. Enough has also been said about the embarrassing blunder of casting a Chinese American actor in the role of Natalie Hanson, once again denying Native Americans the opportunity for authentic representation in an industry where it is sorely needed. However, credit remains due to director Taylor Sheridan for making an important snow-shoe’d step in the right direction towards creating a space for marginalised stories in mainstream cinema, and highlighting the grave shortcomings of an institution that purports to uphold and enforce the safety and freedom of all US citizens, whilst repeatedly neglecting some of its most vulnerable members.

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They Tested Negative for Covid. Still, They Have Long Covid Symptoms.

Kristin Novotny once led an active life, with regular CrossFit workouts and football in the front yard with her children — plus a job managing the kitchen at a middle school. Now, the 33-year-old mother of two from De Pere, Wisconsin, has to rest after any activity, even showering. Conversations leave her short of breath.

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Long after their initial coronavirus infections, patients with a malady known as “long covid” continue to struggle with varied symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, gastrointestinal problems, muscle and joint pain, and neurological issues. Novotny has been contending with these and more, despite testing negative for covid-19 seven months ago.

Experts don’t yet know what causes long covid or why some people have persistent symptoms while others recover in weeks or even days. They also don’t know just how long the condition — referred to formally by scientists as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or PASC — lasts.

But the people who didn’t test positive for covid — due either to a lack of access to testing or a false-negative result — face difficulty getting treatment and disability benefits. Their cases are not always included in studies of long covid despite their lingering symptoms. And, sometimes as aggravating, many find that family, friends or even doctors have doubts they contracted covid at all.

Novotny, who first became ill in August, initially returned to work at the beginning of the school year, but her symptoms snowballed and, one day months later, she couldn’t catch her breath at work. She went home and hasn’t been well enough to return.

“It is sad and frustrating being unable to work or play with my kids,” Novotny said via email, adding that it’s devastating to see how worried her family is about her. “My 9-year-old is afraid that if I’m left alone, I will have a medical emergency and no one will be here to help.”

Data about the frequency of false-negative diagnostic covid tests is extremely limited. A study at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, which focused on the time between exposure and testing, found a median false-negative rate of 20% three days after symptoms start. A small study in China conducted early in the pandemic found a high rate of negative tests even among patients sick enough to be hospitalized. And given the dearth of long-hauler research, patients dealing with lingering covid symptoms have organized to study themselves.

The haphazard protocols for testing people in the United States, the delays and difficulties accessing tests and the poor quality of many of the tests left many people without proof they were infected with the virus that causes covid-19.

“It’s great if someone can get a positive test, but many people who have covid simply will never have one, for a variety of different reasons,” said Natalie Lambert, an associate research professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of research for the online covid support group Survivor Corps.

Lambert’s work with computational analytics has found that long haulers face such a wide variety of symptoms that no single symptom is a good screening tool for covid. “If PCR tests are not always accurate or available at the right time and it’s not always easy to diagnose based on someone’s initial symptoms, we really need to have a more flexible, expansive way of diagnosing for covid based on clinical presentations,” she said.

Dr. Bobbi Pritt, chair of the division of clinical microbiology at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, said four factors affect the accuracy of a diagnostic test: when the patient’s sample is collected, what part of the body it comes from, the technique of the person collecting the sample and the test type.

“But if one of those four things isn’t correct,” said Pritt, “you could still have a false-negative result.”

Timing is one of the most nebulous elements in accurately detecting SARS-CoV-2. The body doesn’t become symptomatic immediately after exposure. It takes time for the virus to multiply and this incubation period tends to last four or five days before symptoms start for most people. “But we’ve known that it can be as many as 14 days,” Pritt said.

Testing during that incubation period — however long it may be — means there may not be enough detectable virus yet.

“Early on after infection, you may not see it because the person doesn’t have enough virus around for you to find,” said Dr. Yuka Manabe, an infectious-disease expert and a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Novotny woke up with symptoms on Aug. 14 and got a covid test later that day. Three days later — the same day her test result came back negative — she went to the hospital because of severe shortness of breath and chest pressure.

“The hospital chose not to test me due to test shortages and told me to presume positive,” Novotny wrote, adding that hospital staffers told her she likely tested too early and received a false negative.

As the virus leaves the body, it becomes undetectable, but patients may still have symptoms because their immune responses kicked in. At that point, “you’re seeing more of an inflammatory phase of illness,” Manabe said.

An autoimmune response, in which the body’s defense system attacks its own healthy tissue, may be behind persistent covid symptoms in many patients, though small amounts of virus hiding in organs is another explanation.

Andréa Ceresa is nearing a year of long covid and has an extensive list of symptoms, topped by gastrointestinal and neurological issues. When the 47-year-old from Branchburg, New Jersey, got sick last April, she had trouble getting a covid test. Once she did, her result was negative.

Ceresa has seen so many doctors since then that she can’t keep them straight. She considers herself lucky to have finally found some “fantastic” doctors, but she’s also seen plenty who didn’t believe her or tried to gaslight her — a frequent complaint of long haulers.

A couple of doctors told her they didn’t think her condition had anything to do with covid. One told her it was all in her head. And after a two-month wait to see one neurologist, he didn’t order any tests and simply told her to take vitamin B, leaving her “crying and devastated.”

“I think the negative test absolutely did that,” Ceresa said.

Fortunately, among a growing number of physicians specifically treating patients with long covid, positive test results aren’t vital. In the patient-led research, symptoms patients reported were not significantly different between those who had positive covid tests and those who had negative tests.

Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, a rehabilitation and physical medicine doctor who leads University Health’s Post-COVID Recovery program in San Antonio, said about 12% of the patients she’s seen never had a positive covid test.

“The initial test, to me, is not as important as the symptoms,” Gutierrez said. “You have to spend a lot of time with these patients, provide education, provide encouragement and try to work on all the issues that they’re having.”

She said she tells people “what’s done is done” and, regardless of test status, “now we need to treat the outcome.”

This story was produced by KHN, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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The study of 1,407 people who tested positive for coronavirus found more than 30 symptoms, including anxiety, low back pain, fatigue, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems and rapid heart rate.

By Pam Belluck

March 8, 2021

Many people who experience long-term symptoms from the coronavirus did not feel sick at all when they were initially infected, according to a new study that adds compelling information to the increasingly important issue of the lasting health impact of Covid-19.

The study, one of the first to focus exclusively on people who never needed to be hospitalized when they were infected, analyzed electronic medical records of 1,407 people in California who tested positive for the coronavirus. More than 60 days after their infection, 27 percent, or 382 people, were struggling with post-Covid symptoms like shortness of breath, chest pain, cough or abdominal pain.Nearly a third of the patients with such long-term problems had not had any symptoms from their initial coronavirus infection through the 10 days after they tested positive, the researchers found.Understanding long-term Covid symptoms is an increasingly pressing priority for doctors and researchers as more and more people report debilitating or painful aftereffects that hamper their ability to work or function the way they did before. Last month, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, announced a major initiative “to identify the causes and ultimately the means of prevention and treatment of individuals who have been sickened by Covid-19, but don’t recover fully over a period of a few weeks.”

David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, who was not involved in the new research, said that he and his colleagues at Mount Sinai’s center for post-Covid care are seeing a similar pattern.

“Many people who had asymptomatic Covid can also go on to develop post-acute Covid syndrome,” said Dr. Putrino, who is a co-author of a smaller study on the topic published last year. “It doesn’t always match up with severity of acute symptoms, so you can have no symptoms but still have a very aggressive immune response.”

The new study is published on the preprint site MedRxiv and has not finished undergoing peer review. Its strengths include that it is larger than many studies on long-term symptoms published so far and that the researchers used electronic records from the University of California system, allowing them to obtain health and demographic information of patients from throughout the state. The researchers also excluded from the study symptoms that patients had reported in the year before their infection, a step intended to ensure a focus on post-Covid symptoms.

Among their findings: Long-term problems affect every age group, including children. “Of the 34 children in the study, 11 were long-haulers,” said one of the authors, Melissa Pinto, an associate professor of nursing at the University of California Irvine.

The study found more than 30 symptoms, including anxiety, low back pain, fatigue, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems and rapid heart rate. The researchers identified five clusters of symptoms that seemed most likely to occur together, like chest pain and cough or abdominal pain and headache.

Most previous studies of long-term symptoms have tended to involve people who were sick enough from their initial infection to be hospitalized. One of the largest found that more than three-quarters of about 1,700 hospitalized patients in Wuhan, China, had at least one symptom six months later.

But increasingly, people who were never hospitalized are seeking care at post-Covid clinics, and scientists are recognizing the need to understand their circumstances.

Last month, researchers at the University of Washington reported on a survey of 177 peoplewho had tested positive for the coronavirus. Most of them had not been hospitalized. About a third of both the people who had been hospitalized and the people who had only mild initial illnesses reported having at least one lasting symptom six months later, the researchers found.

Unlike some recent surveys, like one by a patient-led research team, the new study did not capture one of the most commonly reported “long Covid” issues: cognitive problems like brain fog, memory problems and difficult concentrating. One of the co-authors, Natalie Lambert, an associate research professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, said that may be because at the time, doctors may not have known to include diagnostic codes for such cognitive issues in the medical records of Covid patients. The team is seeking funding for a larger and more comprehensive study that combines information in medical records, doctors’ notes and patients’ reports, she said.

In the new study, about 59 percent of the patients with long-term symptoms were women, and about half of the patients were Hispanic and 31 percent were white. The authors and Dr. Putrino cautioned that any reliable demographic conclusions would require bigger studies that are national in scope.

Dr. Lambert said it was likely that the medical records used in the study reflected only a percentage of people who had asymptomatic Covid infections and experienced Covid aftereffects. “For some people, if they’re asymptomatic and they don’t know that they’re sick, they’re not going to go get tested,” she said.

“Another important component is that we know that some of the long-haul symptoms show up much later than two months,” Dr. Lambert said. “So there’s a potential for a wide range of long-haul symptoms that they’re not going to associate with Covid.”

Dr. Pinto said it would be important to study the condition over time, instead of in a static snapshot. “The long haul is a very dynamic process and symptoms can change from day to day,” she said. “One day they may have chest pain and a headache, and the very next day, the chest pain and headache is gone and they have backache and muscle aches. We need to capture trajectory and changing of symptoms across time, and we need this in a larger sample that represents America.”

Pam Belluck is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor. @PamBelluck

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Us, August 5

Cover: Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston -- joy, pain and friendship 

Page 1: First Look -- Jenna Dewan 

Page 2: Red Carpet -- florals -- Kelsea Ballerini, Lily Collins, Camilla Belle, Lana Condor 

Page 3: Tina Fey, Letitia Wright, Beanie Feldstein, Becca Tobin

Page 4: Who Wore It Best? Sofia Vergara vs. Brooke Burke, Lucy Liu vs. Chanel Iman, Hailey Bieber vs. Kendall Jenner 

Page 6: Loose Talk -- Joel McHale, Laura Dern, Dr. Phil, Julia Roberts, John Mayer 

Page 8: Contents

Page 10: Hot Pics -- Prince George turns 6

Page 11: Tom Holland and Olivia Bolton, Miranda Lambert, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello 

Page 12: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, Wendy Williams, Ricky Martin 

Page 13: Comic-Con San Diego -- Natalie Portman, Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse, Angelina Jolie, Maisie Williams, Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson 

Page 14: Jenny McCarthy 

Page 15: Chance the Rapper and Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton 

Page 16: Cardi B, Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti, Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler 

Page 18: Stars play with FaceApp -- Derek Hough, Sara Foster, Arie and Lauren Luyendyk, Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino 

Page 19: Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher, Miley Cyrus, Busy Philipps, Tyrese and Ludacris 

Page 22: Stars They’re Just Like Us -- Rachel Bilson, Brenda Song 

Page 23: Audrina Patridge, Kacey Musgraves 

Page 24: Vacation Goals -- Ciara, Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich, The Honeymooners -- Katharine McPhee and David Foster, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas 

Page 26: Kidding Around -- Beyonce and Blue Ivy, Sean Lowe and son Isaiah, Alicia Silverstone and son Bear, Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma and kids Luca and Banks 

Page 28: Celebs fan-girl in band tees -- Sophie Turner in AC/DC, Kim Kardashian in Michael Jackson and Prince, Larsa Pippen in Tupac, Lady Gaga in Green Day, Kaia Gerber in The Doors, Lily Collins and Josh Smith at a Spice Girls concert 

Page 30: Hollywood Dads -- Nate Berkus on his kids Poppy and Oskar with husband Jeremiah Brent 

Page 31: Taye Diggs on son Walker, Dwyane Wade on daughter Kaavia, Jamie Bell’s son with ex Evan Rachel Wood is very protective of his new daughter with Kate Mara 

Page 32: Love Lives -- Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams engaged 

Page 33: KJ Apa and Britt Robertson get cozy at Comic-Con, Nikki Bella calls Artem Chigvintsev her boyfriend, Scott Disick’s girlfriend Sofia Richie has been hanging out with Kylie Jenner and Scott is thrilled 

Page 34: Demi Lovato’s recovery one year later 

Page 35: Duchess Meghan Markle’s life as a mom, Lindsay Lohan is making new music, Lisa Vanderpump doesn’t miss RHOBH 

Page 36: Amber Portwood is trying to make healthy changes, A$AP Rocky in jail in Sweden, celebs with side-hustles -- Jessica Lange, Sutton Foster, Justin Theroux, Erykah Badu, Nick Offerman 

Page 37: J.D. Scott suffers from mystery disease so brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott finished his house for him, VIP Scene -- John Legend, Amy Poehler, Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin, Halsey and Yungblud, Adam Levine, Sean Lennon, Shakira and Gerard Pique, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello, Andy Cohen 

Page 38: What’s in My Bag? Dascha Polanco 

Page 39: Kylie Jenner wants people to know she’s human, Aubrey O’Day 

Page 40: Cover Story -- In a town filled with fair-weather friends Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston are the real deal 

Page 44: Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are engaged 

Page 46: The Bachelorette Hannah Brown’s final 3 guys 

Page 48: Jennifer Lopez turns 50 

Page 50: Style -- Skai Jackson, Ashley Benson

Page 51: Joan Smalls 

Page 52: Olivia Culpo’s getaway goods 

Page 54: Us Musts -- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 

Page 56: Denise Richards on Drop Dead Gorgeous

Page 58: Fashion Police -- Rita Ora, Odell Beckham Jr., Chloe Kim 

Page 59: Brooklyn Beckham, Lily Allen, Nastia Liukin 

Page 60: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me -- Vanessa Williams 

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Current Lip Sync Songs Masterlist

Listed in alphabetical order by song title.

A.

Aaron’s Party - Aaron Carter   (Richard Harmon, Pink: Round 1)

Africa-Toto   (Camila Mendes, Pink: Round 1)

Ain’t My Fault- Zara Larsson  (Nina Dobrev, Green: Round 2)

Ain’t No Other Man- Christina Aguilera  (Tyler Seguin, Orange: Round 2)

Ain’t Your Mama- Jennifer Lopez   (Perrie Edwards, Gold: Round 2)

All Eyez On Me- 2Pac   (Stephen James Hendry, Red: Round 2)

All I Do Is Win- DJ Khaled  (Sophia Bush, Pink: Round 1)

All The Small Things- Blink 182  (KJ Apa, Blue: Round 1)

Alpha Omega- MGK   (Dylan O’Brien, Orange: Round 2)

American Girl- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers  (Elizabeth Olsen, White: Round 1)

Applause- Lady Gaga   (Courtney Act, Gold: Round 1)

Auston Matthews- SVDVM  (Auston Matthews, Red: Round 2)

B.

Baby One More Time- Britney Spears   (Ashley Benson, Purple: Round 2)

Back To Black- Amy Winehouse   (KJ Apa, Blue: Round 2)

Bad At Love- Halsey  (Hailey Baldwin, Red: Round 1)

Bad Blood- Taylor Swift  (Matt Daddario, Gold: Round 2)

Bad Medicine- Bon Jovi   (Sharon Needles, Blue: Round 2)

Barbie Girl- Aqua   (Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Turquoise: Round 2)

Beauty and The Beat- Justin Bieber   (Sarah Drew, Blue: Round 1)

Believer - Imagine Dragons  (Lili Reinhart, Red: Round 2)

Best of Both Worlds- Hannah Montana   (Alfie Deyes, Pink: Round 2)

Bet On It- Zac Efron   (Zac Efron, Orange: Round 2)

Bitch- Meredith Brooks   (Lily James, Pink: Round 2)

Black Widow- Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora  (Jennifer Morrison Blue: Round 1)

Blow Your Mind (Mwah)- Dua Lipa   (Adelaide Kane, Yellow: Round 2)

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen  (Taylor Swift, Green: Round 1)

Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen  (Troian Bellisario, Blue Round 1)

Bottoms Up - Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj  (Eliza Taylor, Green: Round 2)

Bye Bye Bye- NSYNC  (Darren Criss, White: Round 1)

C.

Cake By The Ocean- DNCE   (Olivia Holt, Green: Round 1)

Can’t Stop The Feeling- Justin Timberlake   (Chris Wood, Blue: Round 2)

Careless Whisper - George Michael  (Karlie Kloss, Pink: Round 1)

Caught Up - Usher  (Richard Harmon, Pink: Round 2)

Celebrity Status- Mariana’s Trench  (Marie Avgeropoulos, Yellow: Round 1)

Chandelier- Sia   (Marzia Bigonin, Yellow: Round 2)

Chantaje- Shakira   (Paulo Dybala, Orange: Round 1)

Chunky - Bruno Mars  (Joe Jonas, Green: Round 1)

Come To My Window- Melissa Etheridge   (Elizabeth Olsen, White: Round 2)

Confident- Demi Lovato  (Nina Dobrev, Green: Round 1)

Cool Girl- Tove Lo   (Adelaide Kane, Yellow: Round 1)

Cruella De Vil- Selena Gomez   (Genevieve Gaunt, Gold: Round 2)

D.

Daddy Lessons - Beyonce (Zendaya, Yellow: Round 1)

Dance Dance- Fall Out Boy  (Rose McIver, White: Round 1) 

Despacito-Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee  (Auston Matthews, Red: Round 1)

Dick In A Box- Justin Timberlake   (Katie Cassidy, White: Round 2)

Dirrty- Christina Aguilera  (Marie Avgeropoulos, Yellow: Round 2)

Diva- Beyonce   (Saoirse Ronan, Pink: Round 1)

Dog Days Are Over- Florence and The Machine   (Toby Regbo, Orange: Round 1)

Don’t Blame Me- Taylor Swift   (Keegan Allen, Red: Round 2)

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina- Madonna   (Bianca Del Rio, Gold: Round 2)

Drop It Like It’s Hot- Snoop feat. Pharrell  (Tom Holland, Gold: Round 1)

Dream On- Aerosmith   (Delta Goodrem, Orange: Round 1)

Drummer Boy - Misterwives (Sarah Hyland, Purple: Round 1)

E.

Emperor’s New Clothes- Panic! At The Disco  (Charlie Heaton, Turquoise: Round 2)

Encore/Numb mashup- Jay Z and Linkin Park   (Katie Cassidy, White: Round 1)

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)-Backstreet Boys   (Dominic Sherwood, Turquoise: Round 1)

Everybody Wants To Rule The World- Tears For Fears   (Danielle Panabaker, Green: Round 1)

Ex Factor- Lauryn Hill  (Tori Kelly, Orange: Round 1)

Express- Christina Aguilera from Burlesque   (Olivia Holt, Green: Round 2)

Eye To Eye- From The Goofy Movie   (Brendan Urie, Green: Round 2)

F.

Felices Los 4- Maluma   (Paulo Dybala, Orange: Round 2)

Fight Song- Rachel Platten  (Madelaine Petsch, Pink: Round 1)

Filthy- Justin Timberlake   (Justin Bieber, Gold: Round 1)

Finesse- Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B.  (Dianna Agron, Blue: Round 2)

Flawless- Beyonce   (Amber Heard, White: Round 2)

Footloose- Kenny Loggins   (Jack Lowden, Turquoise: Round 2)

Forgot About Dre- Dr. Dre feat. Eminem  (Stephen Amell, Turquoise: Round 2)

Free Your Mind- En Vogue  (Tori Kelly, Orange: Round 2)

Fuck You- Lily Allen   (Selena Gomez, Purple: Round 1)

G.

Galway Girl- Ed Sheeran  (Domhnall Gleeson, Yellow: Round 2)

Gangsta’s Paradise- Coolio feat L.V.   (Lily Collins, Blue: Round 1)

Gas Pedal (cover)- Mike Stud  (Tyler Seguin, Orange: Round 1)

Girl I Know- Avenged Sevenfold   (Hailey Baldwin, Red: Round 2)

Girl Next Door - Saving Jane  (Eliza Taylor, Green: Round 1)

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun- Cyndi Lauper  (Zac Efron, Orange: Round 1)

Give Your Heart A Break- Demi Lovato   (Adore Delano, Yellow: Round 1)

Gold Digger- Kanye West   (Phoebe Tonkin, Green: Round 2)

Gotta Tell You - Samantha Mumba  (Caity Lotz, Yellow: Round 1)

Green Light- Lorde   (Lily Collins, Blue: Round 2)

Gucci Gang- Lil Pump  (Henry Cavill, Orange: Round 1)

Gust Of Wind- Pharrell feat. Daft Punk  (Bill Skarsgard, White: Round 1)

H.

Hallelujah- Rufus Weinwright  (Blake Lively, Turquoise: Round 1)

Happy- Pharrell   (Witney Carson, Yelllow: Round 1)

Harder To Breathe- Maroon 5.  (Chris Evans, White: Round 1)

Havana- Camila Cabello  (Bella Hadid, Yellow: Round 1)

Heartbreaker- Pat Benatar   (Willa Holland, Yellow: Round 1)

Hello-Adele   (Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Turquoise: Round 1)

Here I Go Again- Whitesnake   (Skeet Ulrich, Purple: Round 2)

Hips Don’t Lie- Shakira  (Gal Gadot, Red: Round 2)

Holding Out For A Hero- Bonnie Tyler   (Benedict Cumberbatch, Red: Round 1)

Hold Me Tight Or Don’t - Fall Out Boy  

Hold On We’re Going Home-Drake feat. Majid Jordan  (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Blue: Round 1)

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. (Zoe Sugg, Orange: Round 1)

Honey, I’m Good - Andy Grammar  (Grant Gustin, Red: Round 1)

Hook-Blue’s Traveler   (Roman Josi, Green: Round 1)

Hopeless Wanderer- Mumford and Sons  (Alex Galchenyuk, Orange: Round 2)

Hound Dog- Elvis Presley   (Bob Morley, Blue: Round 1)

Hot In Herre- Nelly  (Bob Morley, Blue: Round 2)

Hotline Bling - Drake (Zendaya, Yellow: Round 2)

Hot ‘N Cold- Katy Perry  (Kendall Jenner, White: Round 1)

How Long - Charlie Puth

Humble- Kendrick Lamar   (Taylor Hill, Gold: Round 1)

I.

I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith   (Chris Wood, Blue: Round 1)

I Get Off-Halestorm   (Alexandra Park, Blue: Round 2)

I Just Had Sex-  The Lonely Island feat. Akon  (Sophia Bush, Pink: Round 2)

I Like it - Enrique Iglesias (Crystal Reed, Yellow: Round 1)

I’m Real- Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule   (Emily Bett Rickards, Purple: Round 2)

I Wanna Dance With Somebody- Whitney Houston   (Ashleigh Murray, Blue: Round 1)

I Want It That Way-Backstreet Boys   (Taissa Farmiga, Turquoise: Round 1)

I Want To Break Free- Queen   (Adam Devine, Blue: Round 2)

I Was Made For Loving You- KISS  (Adam Devine, Blue: Round 1)

I Write Sins Not Tragedies- Panic! At The Disco  (Rose McIver, White: Round 2)

Ice, Ice, Baby - Vanilla Ice  (Melissa Benoist, Turquoise: Round 2)

Idiot Boyfriend- Jimmy Fallon   (Margot Robbie, Pink: Round 2)

IDGAF- Dua Lipa   (Harry Styles, Pink: Round 1)

If I Had You- Adam Lambert   (Bill Skarsgard, White: Round 2)

If U Seek Amy- Britney Spears  (Natalie Dormer, Orange: Round 1)

Instruction- Jax Jonest feat. Demi Lovato, Stefflon Don  (Kat McNamara, Orange: Round 2)

In The Navy- Village People   (Alexander Skarsgard, White: Round 2)

It Must Have Been Love- Roxette   (Emmy Rossum, Red: Round 1)

It’s All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion (Aaron Rodgers, Purple: Round 2)

It’s Gonna Be Me- NSYNC   (Darce Montgomery, Purple: Round 2)

It’s My Life- Bon Jovi   (Darce Montgomery, Purple: Round 1)

It’s The End of The World- R.E.M.  (Stephen Amell, Turquoise: Round 1)

J.

Just Like Fire- P!nk  (Jennifer Morrison Blue: Round 2)

K.

L.

Ladies Choice- Zac Efron   (Alexandra Daddario, Green: Round 1)

Let It Go- Idina Menzel from Frozen  (Blake Lively, Turquoise: Round 2)

Let You Go- Machine Gun Kelly   (Justin Bieber, Gold: Round 2)

Lights Down Low - MAX feat. gnash (Jordan Fisher, Blue: Round 1)

Like A Prayer- Madonna   (Danielle Panabaker, Green: Round 2)

Like A Virgin- Madonna  (Ashley Benson, Purple: Round 1)

Living La Vida Loca- Ricky Martin   (Delta Goodrem, Orange: Round 2)

Livin’ On A Prayer- Bon Jovi   (Skeet Ulrich, Purple: Round 1)

Look What You Made Me Do- Taylor Swift   (Domhnall Gleeson, Yellow: Round 1)

Lose Yourself- Eminem  (Daisy Ridley, Orange: Round 2)

Love Doesn’t Stand A Chance- From Once Upon A Time  (Zayn Malik, Green: Round 2)

Love on the Brain - Rihanna (Nick Jonas, Red: Round 1)

Love You To Death- Type O Negative  (Henrik Lundqvist, Pink: Round 1)

M.

Mama Don’t Make Me Put On The Dress Again- Trixie Mattel   (Katya Zamaolodchikova, Purple: Round 2)

Mama Say- Betty Who   (Gigi Hadid, Gold: Round 1)

Mamma Mia-Abba  (Emilia Clarke, Turquoise: Round 2)

Man! I Feel Like A Woman- Shania Twain   (Harry Styles, Pink: Round 2)

Mi Gente - J Balvin, Willy William

Milkshake- Kelis  (Henry Cavill, Orange: Round 2)

Miss You - Louis Tomlinson (Natalia Dyer, Yellow: Round 2)

Monster- Nicki Minaj   (Vanessa Hudgens, Gold: Round 1)

My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion   (Cole Sprouse, Green: Round 2)

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up) - Fall Out Boy (Nick Jonas, Red: Round 2)

N.

New Rules- Dua Lipa   (Bella Hadid, Yellow: Round 2)

Never Gonna Give You Up- Rick Astley   (Alfie Deyes, Pink: Round 1)

Nothing Compares To Uou - Sinead O'Connor  (Trixie Mattel, Turquoise: Round 2)

No Rain - One Blind Melon   (Stephen James Hendry, Red: Round 1)

O.

Often-The Weeknd   (Selena Gomez, Purple: Round 2)

One Dance- Drake   (Amber Heard, White: Round 1)

Only Girl (In The World)- Rihanna   (Gigi Hadid, Gold: Round 2)

On Top of You - Enrique Iglesias  (Jordan Fisher, Blue: Round 2)

Oops... I Did It Again- Britney Spears  (Saoirse Ronan, Pink: Round 2)

Out of Your Mind - True Steppers, Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham   (Willa Holland, Yellow: Round 2)

P.

Paper Planes- M.I.A.   (Perrie Edwards, Gold: Round 1)

Paris in the Rain - LAUV

Part of Your World-  From the Little Mermaid   (Lindsay Arnold, Turquoise: Round 1)

Perfect-Ed Sheeran   (Emilia Clarke, Turquoise: Round 1)

Play That Funky Music- Wild Cherry   (Tom Hiddleston, Gold: Round 2)

Poker Face- Lady Gaga  (Natalie Dormer, Orange: Round 2)

Pony- Ginuwine  (Jason Momoa, White: Round 2)

Pour Some Sugar On Me- Def Leppard   (Danneel Harris, Yellow: Round 2)

Power- Little Mix   (Kat McNamara, Orange: Round 1)

Praying- Ke$ha  (Lea Michele, Yellow: Round 1)

Pretty Fly For A White Guy - Offspring  (Aaron Rodgers, Purple: Round 1)

Prince Ali- Robin Williams from Aladdin   (Camila Mendes, Pink: Round 2)

Purple Rain- Prince   (Toby Regbo, Orange: Round 2)

Q.

R.

Rap God-Eminem  (Alex Galchenyuk, Orange: Round 1)

Rebel Yell- Billy Idol   (Andy Biersack, White: Round 1)

Redneck Woman- Gretchen Wilson   (Danneel Harris, Yellow: Round 1)

Reet Petite- Jackie Wilson   (Jack Lowden, Turquoise: Round 1)

Reggaeton Lento (Bailemos)- CNCO   (Emeraude Toubia, Purple: Round 1)

Repeat Stuff- Bo Burnham  (Dylan Sprouse, White: Round 1)

Replay- Zendaya   (Tom Holland, Gold: Round 2)

Rockin’ Robin- The Jackson 5   (Ian Harding, Gold: Round 1)

Rhythm Nation- Janet Jackson (Sarah Drew, Blue: Round 2)

River - Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran (Sarah Hyland, Purple: Round 2)

Roar- Katy Perry  (Marzia Bigonin, Yellow: Round 1)

Roses- Outkast   (Lindsey Morgan, Red: Round 1)

Run The World (Girls)- Beyonce  (Troian Bellisario, Blue Round 2)

S.

S&M-Rihanna   (Alexandra Park, Blue: Round 1)

School’s Out- Alice Cooper  (Zayn Malik, Green: Round 1)

Sex Addiction- L.A Guns   (Henrik Lundqvist, Pink: Round 2)

Sex On Fire- Kings of Leon   (Zoey Deutch, Green: Round 2)

Sexy Back-Justin Timberlake   (Chris Evans, White: Round 2)

Shake It Off- Taylor Swift   (Lucy Hale, Purple: Round 2)

Shape Of You- Ed Sheeran (Madelaine Petsch, Pink: Round 2)

She’s Country- Jason Aldean   (Jensen Ackles, White: Round 1)

She’s In Love With The Boy- Trisha Yearwood  (Carrie Underwood, Red: Round 1)

She’s So High - Tal Bachman. (Zoe Sugg, Orange: Round 2)

She Thinks My Tractor Is Sexy- Kenny Chesney  (Roman Josi, Green: Round 2)

Should’ve Said No- Taylor Swift   (Lea Michele, Yellow: Round 2)

Shout- Lulu & the Luvvers   (Benedict Cumberbatch, Red: Round 2)

Sign of the Times - Harry Styles   (Louis Tomlinson, Pink: Round 2)

Sister Christian- Night Ranger  (Justin Baldoni, Pink: Round 1)

Sk8ter Boy - Avril Lavigne   (Trixie Mattel, Turquoise: Round 1)

Slow Hands - Niall Horan   (Louis Tomlinson, Pink: Round 1)

Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson  (Grant Gustin, Red: Round 2)

Somebody Told Me- The Killers  (Dianna Agron, Blue: Round 1)

Something Bad - Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert  (Natalia Dyer, Yellow: Round 1)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow- Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole  (Jason Momoa, White: Round 1)

Sorry- Justin Bieber   (Emeraude Toubia, Purple: Round 2)

Sorry Not Sorry- Demi Lovato   (Niall Horan, Orange: Round 2)

Spice Up Your Life- Spice Girls   (Courtney Act, Gold: Round 2)

Starman- David Bowie   (Daisy Ridley, Orange: Round 1)

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne  (Joe Jonas, Green: Round 2)

Stay The Night- James Blunt  (Keegan Allen, Red: Round 1)

Step In Time- Dick Van Dyke from Marry Poppins   (Emmy Rossum, Red: Round 2)

Stronger (What Doesn’t Make You Stronger)- Kelly Clarkson  (Carrie Underwood, Red: Round 2)

Sucker for Pain - Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons  (Cara Delevingne, Turquoise: Round 2)

Superbass- Nicki Minaj   (Kendall Jenner, White: Round 2)

Swalla - Jason Derulo feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign   (Sebastian Stan, Turquoise: Round 2)

Swish Swish- Katy Perry  (Matt Daddario, Gold: Round 1)

T.

Talk Dirty- Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz  (Justin Baldoni, Pink: Round 2)

Talk that Talk by Rihanna feat. Jay Z (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Blue: Round 2)

Tear You Apart- She Wants Revenge  (Dylan O’Brien, Orange: Round 1)

Telephone- Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce  (Darren Criss, White: Round 2)

That’s My Girl- Fifth Harmony  (Lucy Hale, Purple: Round 1)

That’s What I Like- Bruno Mars   (Alberto Rosende, White: Round 1)

The Bare Necessities- Phil Harris   (Tom Hiddleston, Gold: Round 1)

The Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavinge  (Chyler Leigh, Green: Round 2)

The Boys (English Ver.) - Girls’ Generation  (Crystal Reed, Yellow: Round 2)

The Champion- Carrie Underwood   (Brie Bella, Pink: Round 2)

The Creep- The Lonely Island   (Dylan Sprouse, White: Round 2)

The Greatest- Sia   (Taylor Hill, Gold: Round 2)

The Look- Roxette   (Phoebe Tonkin, Green: Round 1)

This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arm’s Race- Fall Out Boy   (Brendan Urie, Green: Round 1)

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift   (Karlie Kloss, Pink: Round 2)

Thong Song- Sisqo   (Sebastian Stan, Turquoise: Round 1)

Thrift Shop-Macklemore   (Taissa Farmiga, Turquoise: Round 2)

Tightrope - Janelle Monae  (Melissa Benoist, Turquoise: Round 1)

Tough Lover- Christina Aguilera from Burlesque   (Alexandra Daddario, Green: Round 2)

U.

Under A Paper Moon- All Time Low  (Charlie Heaton, Turquoise: Round 1)

Unwritten -  Natasha Bedingfield (Chyler Leigh, Green: Round 1)

Uptown Funk- Mark Ronon feat. Bruno Mars.  (Lindsey Morgan, Red: Round 2)

V.

Valentina- Alaska Thunderfuck 5000   (Sharon Needles, Blue: Round 1)

Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (Cole Sprouse, Green: Round 1)

W.

Wait (The Whisper Song)- The Ying Yang Twins  (Margot Robbie, Pink: Round 1)

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go-Wham!   (Ashleigh Murray, Blue: Round 2)

Welcome To The Black Parade- My Chemical Romance  (Zoey Deutch, Green: Round 1)

What About Us- P!nk  (Gal Gadot, Red: Round 1)

What Dreams Are Made Of - Hilary Duff.  (Lili Reinhart, Red: Round 1)

What Lovers Do- Maroon 5 feat SZA   (Emily Bett Rickards, Purple: Round 1)

What Makes You Country- Luke Bryan  (Brie Bella, Pink: Round 1)

Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons  (Cara Delevingne, Turquoise: Round 1)

White and Nerdy- Weird Al Yankovic   (Ian Harding, Gold: Round 2)

Work It - Missy Elliott  (Caity Lotz, Yellow: Round 2)

Worth It - Fifth Harmony  (Lindsay Arnold, Turquoise: Round 2)

Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus  (Taylor Swift, Green: Round 2)

X.

Y.

Yonce/Partition-Beyonce   (Vanessa Hudgens, Gold: Round 2)

You & I- One Direction   (Alberto Rosende, White: Round 2)

You Don’t Know Me- Jax Jones feat Ray-Z   (Genevieve Gaunt, Gold: Round 1)

You Gotta Be- Des’ree   (Lily James, Pink: Round 1)

You Got The Right Stuff- New Kids On The Block   (Alexander Skarsgard, White: Round 1)

Young, Dumb and Broke- Khalid   (Niall Horan, Orange: Round 1)

You’re The One That I Want- From Grease   (Witney Carson, Yelllow: Round 2)

You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC   (Andy Biersack, White: Round 2)

You’ll Be Back - Jonathan Groff from Hamilton   (Bianca Del Rio, Gold: Round 1)

Z.

Zombie- The Cranberries   (Adore Delano, Yellow: Round 2)

#s.

7th Element- Vitas   (Katya Zamaolodchikova, Purple: Round 1)

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Franny’s Top 10 Mainstream Country Songs of 2020

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tl;dr: A selection of script excerpts from a video on Franny’s YouTube channel called “My 10 Favorite Hit Country Songs of 2020″. This isn’t everything she had to say about those songs ofc, just excerpts. I ain’t writing all her thoughts lmao

tw: mentions but no detailed discussion of death and abortion

INTRO: Susadei*, hello, and welcome to my channel, where I, Franny Sor Robinson, share my opinions about music on the internet.”

*susadei is the informal way to say hello in Khmer, Franny’s first language

TOPIC INTRODUCTION: It is almost Christmas, which means! It’s time to start my end of the year roundup. I made videos every December talkin’ about my top 10 favorite...fill-in-the-blank. This year, we’re going to start with my Top 10 Hit Country Songs of 2020. And before you start typin’ [cuts to Franny wearing Cornelius’ glasses and one of Laszlo pretentious artist scarves, black and white] “Ew! I came here to find of hipster shit!” [cuts to Franny wearing one of Petunia’s jackets, black and white] “Where’s the BANJOS!?” [color restored] that’s the one I’m recording next so hold on.

As always, this list is in no particular order, because I believe that music isn’t something you rank on a linear bad, worse, worst, good, better, greatest scale. 

RULES: Now, the rules!

The song can’t be one I had a part in “So if I co-wrote it, if it’s my song, or I featured on the track, it’s out.”

No carry-overs “If I mentioned it in my 2019 list, it can’t be on this list.”

Spread the love

“Only one artist repeat is allowed, I get one double dip but other than that, it has to be a new artist.”

Beyond those rules, that’s really it. So without further ado, let’s get into it.

 10. Love You Like I Used To by Russell Dickerson

 Number ten on the list is one that, actually, surprised me. To me, Russell Dickerson is...well. I’m all about positivity on this channel, talkin’ about other artists. But. He’s solidly part of mainstream Nashville, y’all know my thoughts on the Nashville music industry. 

 It’s still -- I mean, it's a mainstream country song and was always meant to be, so it still follows the formula but it’s creative. It presents like a breakup song at first but right before the first chorus, you find it’s actually a love song. The first verse starts with

‘I've always loved you, oh, but something's changed’ but in the chorus you get [and she plays it on her piano, that her camera and microphone are set on and sings it] ‘I don't love you like I used to, this gets better every time you kiss me like this, it's stronger the longer I'm with you-’ and I think that’s a creative thing to do with a song.

 Like I’ve said before, I don’t hate every single pop country song, and I think there is value in and a place for, pop country. What I do hate is the vapid, formulaic trash that Nashville keeps pushing. So when a song like this that has the made-for-Nashville-radio arrangement but actually does somethin’ creative lyrically, I see it for what it is. And it’s good. It’s good.

 9. One Night Standards by Ashley McBryde

 I’ve actually had the pleasure of co-writin’ a song with Ashley before, so seeing how well this song’s done this year-- how well she’s done this year -- it’s been great. 

 This song’s about a woman laying down the ground rules for a one night stand and I love. this. song.

 A lot of people find this song sad, but I don’t think there’s anything sad at all about a woman owning her sexuality. I think this one line, ‘can’t you just use me like I’m using you’ makes people think it’s a sad song. Maybe it is! But like...I had casual sex all the time in college. I was absolutely using my one night stands for some meaningless, easy sex, and I knew they were using me for sex, and it was fine.

 It’s fine, that’s what a one night stand is. And to me, it sounds like she’s just here for some sex, and the guy’s like, trying to have conversation and do things “right” like offer his phone number, and she’s like, in the words of the great philosopher, Ke$ha, ‘just show me where your dick’s at.’ And I appreciate that.

 8. I Called Mama by Tim McGraw

 It might be because I’m seven months pregnant, and my son is starting university next fall, and my mother lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, but this song has started to make me cry so I can’t really, like, listen to it very often. But I think it is one of the most beautiful, honest songs on country radio this year. It’s a gentle ballad about not putting things off until it's too late, that starts off with a friend calling the narrator to tell him about the death of a friend, which leads to a phone call home to the narrator's mother.

 This song makes me think about myself, and my mother, and one day when my son is living on his own, my son and old lady me.

 The part in the second verse, ‘I can always hear her smile when I call, I just called to tell you that I loved you, I was missin' you and dad, and home, that's all’ -- I cry 1 out of 3 times. Probably. I miss my parents a lot. And I hope my son will miss me and call just to say he loves me and his father when he’s all grown up. The song makes me think about my family and my place in it.

7. Starting Over by Chris Stapleton

 This is another one that I feel on a personal level. It’s this positive ballad featuring his wife, Morgane, talking about how much they love each other and their desire to go through life’s bullshit together. And it just makes me think about my husband, and how much I love him.

 It’s another one I can’t listen to often, I get all misty-eyed. I can’t listen to love songs even when I’m not pregnant, I just call my husband like “I love you” “are you crying” “No!”

6. What If I Never Get Over You by Lady A

 This was one of my honorable mentions of 2019 so it doesn’t count, it’s allowed. Charles Kelley and Hilary Scott’s voices together are just - ugh, god, they’re chef’s kiss, perfect. And I...think this song is just about as good as Need You Now as far as their longing, breakup songs.

 I like how there isn’t a big beat-you-over-the-head climax moment because this song does not need one, it wouldn’t be right. Like, there is one but it’s not like ‘BAM’ there’s the climax! It’s very natural. It was a return to the rich, smooth sound of the band’s earlier hits and that’s the Lady A stuff I really loved. Even their fun stuff like Lookin’ For A Good Time and Love Don’t Live Here, from the earlier days, I prefer those to the overproduced kind of….made-for-radio stuff that snuck its way into their catalog over the years. Sonically, it seems like they’re returned to what makes them great together and I’m happy to see it.

 5. Bluebird by Miranda Lambert

 At number five on the list is Bluebird by Miranda Lambert. This whole album was on my best albums of 2019 list, and I am thrilled that Bluebird became a single. Miranda is a modern day legend in country music and this album especially just keeps proving it.

 Musically, lyrically, everything about this song works. The twists she makes on common metaphors in the English language like ‘when life gives you lemons’ instead of making lemonade she mixes them in her drink, they’re clever. I adore Miranda, it ain’t a secret, I’ve said as much to her gorgeous, gorgeous face, and it’s great seeing the songs from this album, including Bluebird, get the love it deserves.

 4. One Beer by HARDY and Lauren Alaina

 One Beer is a song about a teenage pregnancy, which. We all know my experience with that, but if you don’t, click here [points off to the side, and a card pops up that will link you to a video titled I Got Pregnant When I Was 14 #shoutyourabortion #endthestigma]. It kind of reminds me of Kenny Chesney’s There Goes My Life from...2000...2004? Is it? Wow, I’m old.

 Lauren Alaina’s voice is flawless, as always, and HARDY’s word play strikes once again. For my followers that didn’t grow up with English as their first language -- is this a thing in other countries, or is this an American thing? My UK, New Zealand, et cetera followers, comment down below if kids did this where you’re from too.

 Anyway, if a boy and a girl were so much as friends in like, first grade kids would tease you with this specific rhyme like, Joey and Sarah sittin’ in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage --- and in the song, HARDY plays on that with ‘A boy and a girl and a three on the tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes lust then a shotgun marriage, six months later comes a baby in a carriage’ and just love that kind of clever wordplay shit.

 3. I Wish Grandpas Never Died by Riley Green

 I first heard this song when I was in The States, driving around with Dan[iel Maitland] and it was on the radio, I thought it was some breakup song. But then the last line of the chorus hit me ‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died’ and I just start bawling and Daniel’s like ‘don’t get your tears on my new car seats!’

 Love you too, Dan.

It’s a beautiful song. Sad, but you can also tell he really loved his grandfathers, who’ve both passed away. He’s written several songs inspired by one or both of them. It’s a good song, good writing, I like how lowkey it is musically. And it’s honest songwriting that I wish country radio still had more of.

 2. Gaslighter by The Chicks

 After over a decade away from the music scene, my queen are BACK! Gaslighter was an amazing return and the rest of their album did not disappoint. Now, I don’t think the album was purely a country album, which I talked about in my full album review you can find here [points to the side, where a card pops up linking you to the video], but it is an album that I thoroughly enjoyed that included country songs. They experimented with this album, I love to see it. Let artists experiment without shaming them 2020! Anyway, the album does have lots of country songs and Gaslighter is one of them.

 Natalie Maines’ vocals are, as always, everything one would hope they’d be. They all looked great in the music video. It was a great middle finger to Natalie’s ex-husband, Adrian Pasdar. God, I bet it was fun to write.

 I love writing songs about Dan’s divorces with him since I don’t have one to write about. Keep getting divorces Dan, endless content. [cuts to a video of Daniel Maitland acting like she said that in person to him and he goes ‘rude.’]

 Stream The Chicks. Natalie, Martie, and Emily could stab me and I’d apologize to them, but the thing is, they never would. They’re too nice. They’re so nice. Collaborate with me again please, please, I love you. [mouths call me]

 1. Die From A Broken Heart by Maddie & Tae

 This song was another one of my honorable mentions in 2019, and I’m kicking myself for never properly talking about it until now. I’ve loved Maddie & Tae since Girl In A Country Song and Die From A Broken Heart is just -- god, it sounds so familiar.

 Like, it sounds like I did talking to my mother about getting my heart broken when I was younger. It’s honest, vulnerable songwriting that I can’t get enough of.