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1 day agoZadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'
Zadie Smith evaluates art by whether it makes her feel alive and reflects on middle age, family, time, and generational differences.
Since 2006's Ys, Newsom's albums have been so conceptually staggering that her simpler debut can seem juvenile by proxy. But it's still obvious why anyone who heard 2004's The Milk-Eyed Mender fell in love. Here, as her rattling harpsichord drives an urgent, anxious account of attraction and rejection, the sweetness of her voice and accompanying spurts of a children's choir make the hurt sting even more.