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total possibility

Album standout “Fuck With Your Friends” was a breakthrough moment for West—it was the first song she ever wrote

Recorded in a basement over the course of five days during a typically-inhospitable Midwestern winter

Ronnie Spector

Beating Back the Claws of the Cold lala-lala total possibilityFor all there is to be said about the power of the present in the endlessly cannibalizing tradition of pop music, its often the uncanny intangibility of timelessness that so separates the wheat from the chaffa music aware of both the past and present, and yet discernibly apart from either moment in time. It is a tightrope tread by many, and often with perilous consequence. And yet, in the most literal sense of the word, timelessness is the very