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Lucy Dacus’ “Home Video” album looks back on uncomfortable teenage years

By Kimberly L. Ferguson
July 2, 2021
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Growing up is never easy, but you wouldn’t always know it from pop music. Songs about adolescence too often obscure the complicated moments. The ‘teenage dream’ archetype is a pop culture fantasy – and no one really wants to be 17 forever.

Songs discussed in this episode

âž¼ Lucy dacus, “Night watch”
âž¼ Frank Zappa, “Sharleena”
seâž¼ boygenius, “Memories”
âž¼ Lukas graham, “7 years”
âž¼ Kendrick Lamar, “Beyonce”
âž¼ Justin bieber, “From baby”
âž¼ Mandy moore, “Fifteen”
âž¼ Hilary duff, “Sweet Sixteen”
âž¼ The Beatles, “When I was sixty-four”
âž¼ ABBA, “Dancing Queen”
âž¼ Sound of music, “Sixteen, seventeen”
âž¼ Avril Lavigne, “17”
âž¼ Kings of Leon, “17”
âž¼ Diving in the lake street, “Seventeen”
âž¼ Sharon Van Etten, “Seventeen”
âž¼ Alessia Cara, “Seventeen”
âž¼ Stevie Nicks, “Edge of Seventeen”
âž¼ Janis Ian, “At seventeen”

Lucy Dacus remembers the uncomfortable times. On his new album Home video, she talks about the growing pains of youth. “A lot of childhood is in crisis mode”, she explains in the last episode of Pop lit, which you can hear below. “You are pushed by the world and the rules imposed on you. His songs examine the unequal power relations between parents, friends and lovers.

On the lighter side, the album opens with “Hot and Heavy”, which brings us back to the scene of a romantic first encounter on a sofa in the basement, the face red and awkward. But in the next song, “Christine”, the romantic feelings fade: “He can be nice sometimes / Other nights you admit he’s not what you had in mind.” Bad fathers, bible camp indoctrination, and perpetual peer pressure all take center stage in Dacus’ coming-of-age album.

Dacus says writing about those years is “a process of exercising control over things that I had no control over at the time.” With unattached teenage dreams behind her, Dacus can now reclaim the sense of youth: “I am the narrator of my own life, so I can say what it means.”

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