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icture this...
You have no friends.
You lurk /mu/ and encounter way too many posts about Newsom.
You google her and end up listening to a song called 'Peach, Plum, Pear', you listen all the way through, because you know, maybe it gets better, and it's a rather short track.
You realize it's absolute shit, her voice is annoying at best.
But a couple of days later, that song kinda goes through your head again, maybe because you keep on seeing those Newsom posts.
You listen to it again.
Still shit.
Certain charm to it, but shit.
This repeats about 20 times, and at one point you find yourself singing along, so you check the lyrics, some interesting word choices and flat out weird parts ('And we were galloping manic/To the mouth of the source').
You think that's interesting enough for you to check out other songs at this point.
You download Ys.
You listen to it, and you make sure to sit with the lyrics in front of you when you do.
The first song is nice, the lack of intuitively noticed connection between most of the instrumentation and the vocals is odd, interestingly so.
The second song is kinda meh, until the parts where a fucking bear disintegrates into Ursa Major in a 'balletic and glacial' manner, and you find yourself seeing glimpses of something great behind it all.
The third song is a total bore on the first playthrough, with a few exceptional moments.
The fourth song blows your mind. You went a journey, you gathered seaweed, and you were looked at as a whore, and you crawled through deserts, and there was something about a cherry tree.
The fifth song made it very clear you gotta listen to the whole thing again.
So you do, about 5 times, and only then do you feel prepared to listen to Have One on Me. You assume you'll be disappointed, since nothing could possibly be better than Ys since it's now your GOAT album.
But it completely does.
You then spend about 5 years, listening to music with a 1-1 ratio of Joanna Newsom to other artists