{"id":147404,"date":"2025-10-27T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147404\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:17:07","slug":"suzie-true-how-i-learned-to-love-whats-gone-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147404\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzie True: How I Learned to Love What\u2019s Gone Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suzie True<\/a> are a fan\u2019s band. Named after a line in a song<\/a> by 1990s Memphis punks the Oblivians<\/a> and self-described as \u201cif the Powerpuff Girls formed a Blink-182<\/a> cover band,\u201d they\u2019re proud pop culture junkies. References abound\u2014usually as shorthand for insecurities (\u201cCollecting hearts like Pok\u00e9mon\/She\u2019s such a ch-ch-cherry bomb!\u201d) or objects of affection (\u201cDancing like it\u2019s 1987\/And you say I\u2019m just like heaven<\/a>\u201d), almost always as outlets for escapism. These are songs for slamming your bedroom door because nobody understands, for pretending you\u2019re in a music video even though you\u2019re just driving around your hometown\u2014with the windows down and the radio cranked all the way up, you can hardly tell the difference. The band\u2019s embrace of youthful femininity and Y2K-era pop-punk nostalgia could be written off as a \u201ctwentysomething teenage girl\u201d trope; luckily, Suzie True songs are too smart and self-aware to let that happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to be young and dumb\/Now I\u2019m just dumb,\u201d lead singer and bassist Lexi McCoy sang on the title track of 2023\u2019s Sentimental Scum<\/a>. On Suzie True\u2019s third LP, How I Learned to Love What\u2019s Gone, McCoy hasn\u2019t shed her self-deprecation or head-in-the-clouds romanticism; her arrested development acts both as a hurdle to clear on the way to becoming a so-called real adult and a protective shield against a society that punishes girls for daring to grow into women. \u201cAs long as I look 23 on my 30th birthday, everything will be alright,\u201d she sings on \u201cGet Prettier Overnight!!!,\u201d a track that calls to mind Weezer<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Good Life<\/a>\u201d in its guitar melodies and the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack<\/a> in McCoy\u2019s vocal delivery.<\/p>\n

These anxieties are hardly skin-deep; Suzie True\u2019s turn-of-the-millennium radio rock kitsch reflects the struggle of growing up in an age of tabloid viciousness, \u201cbimbo summits<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cnothing tastes as good as skinny feels<\/a>.\u201d \u201cLeeches (Play Dead!)\u201d seeks refuge from a dysfunctional relationship in apathy: \u201cBe a good girl for you and play dead,\u201d McCoy squeals, maintaining a detached front that breaks down at the furious chorus. Lighter moments leverage emotional immaturity for laughs. \u201cYou\u2019re just like my student loans\/If I ignore you then you don\u2019t exist,\u201d McCoy jeers\u2014just one of many joyous post-breakup kiss-offs on opener \u201cGlow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suzie True are a fan\u2019s band. Named after a line in a song by 1990s Memphis punks the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[12327,18,117,19,17,337,806],"class_list":{"0":"post-147404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115444911695517362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}