My Top 1000 Songs #983: 2 Cool 2 Care

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

The opening track to indie singer-songwriter Anna Burch's 2018 debut, Quit The Curse, "2 Cool 2 Care" immediately established Burch as an artist to watch. Between Burch's slightly post-Phair disaffected Midwestern delivery and the lyrical expressions of modern unrequited love, the track feels like an HBO series about young women straddling Millennials and Zoomers compressed into a 3-minute jangly pop song. The pivot from aloof verses into a gorgeous, soaring chorus is downright thrilling, making it one of the rare songs from the past decade that feels as lived in as the familiar Joni Mitchell and Carole King classics of my childhood.

Live 2019:

Solo acoustic 2015: