Jennifer Donaldson Playlist
List of songs you listened to while writing:
On release day I plan to put out a Spotify playlist, and I don’t want to list all the songs here. But here are a few highlights:
"Graffiti" by CHVRCHES: I love the sense of nostalgia, the sense of innocent destruction in this song.
"Hate" by Cat Power: TW for suicidal ideation on this one. Cat Power is one of the women that writes rage--that kind of female rage that we are socialized to bottle up or compress or internalize--the best.
"Sleep All Summer" by Neko Case (with Eric Bachmann): The line “Weary sun, sleep tonight, go crashing into the ocean/Cut the line that ties the tide and moon, ancient and blue…” just evokes for me the long exhaustion of an Alaskan summer and the way, in all the daylight, you can feel adrift. My book takes place mostly in fall, but Ruthie’s last memories of home are of the summer.
"The Waitress" by Tori Amos: I always listen to a lot of Tori while I write; her words are dreamy enough that my brain doesn’t dwell on them while coming up with mine, and the undercurrent of threat and anger and loss is absolutely what I want carrying me while I work on something like this.
"the light is coming" by Ariana Grande (feat. Nikki Minaj): I can’t listen to mainstream pop while I work because its rhythms tend to distract me; but this one provided my dance party breaks while I worked on I KNOW YOU REMEMBER)
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