![]() I don’t really feel the responsibility to be everyone’s flag-bearer for mental illness. I started to feel safe talking about it around 2008, when we released “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings,” because I didn’t feel like I was circling the drain anymore. And you don’t feel like you’re losing touch with reality. You can go, OK, I’m not crazy - my mind just does this when this happens. But at least if you realize what it is, you can spot it when it’s going on. It’s closer to a handicap than it is to an injury. Mental illness isn’t like breaking your leg. And the day I checked in, Mariah Carey checked out, and I remember the media circus that went on with her and how people made fun of her. I got myself locked up at the UCLA Medical Center for a little bit because I was having some troubles and just needed to settle things down because I didn’t feel safe. But it’s a weird thing as an artist to have your life judged solely by people who don’t know you - and with no sympathy, only ridicule. I spent a lot of time depressed, and clearly the writer got that. Well, I had a pretty severe mental illness that I wasn’t talking about publicly back then. But does that description square with how you thought of yourself at that time? There’s one of a gig you played in Irvine in 1997 that says, “Duritz is one of the few who can make Jackson Browne and Morrissey seem cheery by comparison.” I went back and read some old Counting Crows reviews in The Times. I’m like, “How did I write all this s-? Why did I write all this s-?” So I was just nervous that I wasn’t gonna remember stuff after those two years. And when we got into rehearsals for that tour, I was like, “F- hell, I got a lot of lyrics.” You know, “Palisades Park,” that’s like 10 minutes long. But after COVID - I mean, two years was the longest I’d gone without playing a gig since I was a kid. ![]() Of course, it’s essentially useless because if I do need to find a lyric, I’m not gonna be able to get under the piano, flip through the binder and find it in time. I’ve always had a binder with lyrics sitting at the back of the stage under the piano - just there if I need to look for something. I assume it had song lyrics, but you never once looked at it. I noticed at the Troubadour that you had a music stand with a binder on it. ![]() But this was a work of art - like some combination of Broadway show and Universal theme ride. A lot of big shows don’t interest me because it just seems like it’s people plus dancers plus whatever. My girlfriend is obsessed and she got us tickets and she made me a playlist - I couldn’t believe how good the “Folklore” and “Evermore” stuff was. ![]() Reviewers of Insider concluded that “long story short” is “the closest Swift gets to revisiting her pop star persona” Callie Ahlgrim said that it is “glossier” compared to its fellow tracks, hybridizing the textures of 1989 (2014) and folklore, and functions as a “refreshing change of pace” inside evermore, whereas Courteney Larocca felt that it is a “ Lover era message wrapped in 1989 production about overcoming her reputation mistakes”.Chris knows her really well, and I was a big fan when she started, but I hadn’t listened to her for about 10 years. He admired the song’s “dense but never overcrowded” instrumentation and its “kicky post-chorus vocal hook”. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard chose the song as the best on evermore and stated that the song materializes Taylor’s ability to create “deceptively simple” music that “is bursting with layers and moving pieces”. Slate critic Carl Wilson wrote that “long story short” is a “fairly slight song but an earned valedictory address”, incorporating Taylor’s standard wordplay and the “pleasure” that “comes in hearing her look back at all that and shrugging”.
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