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The Playlist: A ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ Surprise, and 12 More New Songs Hear tracks by Carly Rae Jepsen, LCD Soundsystem, Maggie Roche and others.
By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello
The songs Maggie Roche (1951-2017) wrote to sing with her sisters, Suzzy and Terre, as the Roches and on her own sidestepped categories the way they evaded pop symmetries. “Lose it or abuse it/the public will refuse it,” she decided in this unreleased demo from a profound posthumous collection, “Where Do I Come From.” Her songs were acoustic but not folk music, deeply personal but not introverted, amusing but deeply barbed and too subtle for mass popularity, even as they deeply reached many listeners. “Stayin’ Home” juggles pop ambition against its obstacles — and, in one verse, some sexual harassment — and concludes with a couplet only she could conceive: “You’ve got a lot of talent but you don’t know how to use it/You ought to go into country music.” JON PARELES
Listen to the song HERE.
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