I know that interview said Julien Baker doesn’t just want to make me cry, but when she yells those last few lines of Claws in Your Back I’ve been a mess with every single listen.

I definitely agree with a lot of these criticisms (the slower/less musical second half being a bit of a slog compared to the first few numbers and the four different on-the-nose speeches about nostalgia) but man, the last fifteen minutes of this still managed to hit me like a brick while I was watching it.

I’ve had this feeling the whole time that Pence would be (slightly) less catastrophic on the foreign policy end but a nightmare of Salem Witch Trial proportions on the domestic/social policy front. Trump I viewed as the inverse of that. He’ll probably kill us all once he starts engaging with other nations, but he…

I could see HRC being the kind of badass that would have a perfect, powerful Amazing Amy retort to this kind of douche clown and it saddens me that I can only imagine what it would be. Until then...

(Will be launching into some mild spoiler territory here)

Don’t forget that breathtaking soundtrack! The score by Nicholas Britell is pretty great, then the contemporary music appears in the last act to make you all swoon-y and warm inside. I’ve been listening to Hello Stranger by Barbara Lewis on repeat since TIFF. Think there was some Aretha in there too.