Soccer Mommy – Karaoke Night (2023) – LOST LITTLE CLASSICS

In a parallel reality, Sophia Regina Allison and I are best friends, we study at the same school and we spend our days listening to music and writing some fragmented things that we later put together to give shape to the lyrics of the songs we compose.

In this reality in which we live, I have been following Soccer Mommy through what SHE composes and releases since 2015, when she was still an 18-year-old girl full of melancholy and influenced by alternative rock from the 90s; today she is a young woman of 27 years old full of melancholy and influenced by alternative rock from the 90s. And with the same sweet and sad voice, it must be said.

I've been thinking about putting one of her albums on the road for a while now, but I can never decide which one it will be, so today I chose an EP of covers she released last year called Karaoke nightnot for a specific reason, simply because chance (algorithm, actually) led me earlier to his wonderful version of Pavement's “Here”, and here we are.

In addition to the aforementioned track, Sophie also re-recorded songs for the album that she had already played live by Sheryl Crow (“Soak up to the sun”), Slowdive (“Dagger”), her contemporary Taylor Swift (“I'm only me when I'm with you”) and REM (“Losing my religion”). In each of them, the girl from Nashville left her mark, giving confessional and sad contours to other people's songs and thus appropriating them, making them HER songs.

And these are definitely my kind of songs 💔