“Do you remember when basements felt like stadiums?” indie punk artist Evan Greer asks in the opening line of her album Spotify is Surveillance, the track “Back Row” acting almost as an allusion to a simpler time, pre-pandemic, maybe even before that. “I regret every single show that I spent in the back row talking shit on my phone. Every party that I skipped, every friend I lost touch with, but when the crowd would sing along, it felt like we belong.” Greer explores taking up space and being part of a community as a trans person on the track, and the lyrics resonate in a time when people have been more isolated from one another than ever before. By the second track, “The Tyranny of Either/Or,” Greer jumps right into discussions of anti-trans legislation, individual liberty, and the const...
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