It’s April! It’s springtime!
Dear listeners, as you’re tucking away your sweaters for the season, planting some veggies in the garden, rolling down your car windows, and doing whatever else you do as the weather warms, I hope you’ll also turn up this month’s entry to the New Masculinities Playlist: “The Boy” by Shannon and the Clams. This is jangly pop at its best, fine-tuned for your road trip singalong needs, all the while speaking to the loneliness and yearning that comes from boys’ taught suppression of their emotions.
Lyrics:
I learned how to do better each time
I buried this heart and years went on by
But what do you do when there’s nothing inside?
[…]
If you ever change your mind
If you ever change your mind
Touch me and then teach me how to cry
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Brian Heilman is a listener, learner, evaluator, advocate, opponent of gender, proponent of pop music, Senior Research Officer at Promundo, B at B&B Justice Factory, and frequent list maker.
Edited by Brett Goldberg
