Monday, May 5, 2025

Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches

Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches
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The Moldy Peaches, 2000
Written by Kimya Dawson & Adam Green 

A lo-fi indie (defined loosely; it's got 98 million listens on Spotify and was featured heavily in Juno) cutesy love song, with half-sung, spoken traded verses over sparse instrumentation.  Is it twee?  Oh, it defines twee.  "Here is the church and here is the steeple / We sure are cute for two ugly people."  Or, to Kimya: "Don Quixote was a steel driving man / My name is Adam, I'm your biggest fan."  Juvenile?  Yes (especially the final, somewhat less cute, verse).  But it's sweet in an oddball sort of way.

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