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The French Major

from Meeting Themselves by Broken Hearts Are Blue

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The French Major is the most narratively driven track on Meeting Themselves, and one that leans into Gage’s weakness for gallows humor and fated characters. Thematically, the tune draws upon the notion of the inescapable, with the troubled type focused on their inability to exercise agency over their life. It all comes into colorful specificity and focus through the short life of a young undergraduate known to the narrator as Blue, legally coupled to Maud, but who may even be a callback to an earlier ballad, Goodbye Bunny Smith.

The protagonist has found the “hallowed halls” of college life grueling to navigate. She finds the dense theories of Marx imposing and disconnected from her interior tussles with the self, choosing instead, to retreat into a symbol of the nostalgic and soothing—Judy Blume’s classic Superfudge.

Why slog through dialectical materialism and the Grundrisse, when what Maud really craves is to live out loud the messiest of her feelings and desires?

Musically, it is a sneering, Spector-tinged pop song, fuzzed up and slathered with a thick coat of reverb that helps to conjure a spry buoyancy that neutralizes the grim storyline.

lyrics

I got the Hermes Baby out
And my fingers took flight
Doesn’t matter if I get the facts right
I knew her as Blue
But her real name was Maud
She loved the Shangri-La’s
And the Paisley Underground

Ooh la la la oh

She spoke with a mangled lisp
Her Superfudge paperback
Lay near the bed
Next to the dog-eared Marx
That she never read

After just one year
In these hallowed halls
This girl from the sticks
Leaned over the falls
What she did next would shock
A ruddy-faced nun
She trust-fell over the railing
When she knew there was no one

Ooh la la

And now she can’t go back home to find
A carved message left behind

It was still in the arm of the oak
A document of an inside joke
Oh when they fished her out
There was little doubt
It was the French major

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from Meeting Themselves, released March 1, 2024

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Broken Hearts Are Blue Detroit, Michigan

Broken Hearts Are Blue are a indie rock band whose members live in Kalamazoo, Minneapolis, Alameda, and Los Angeles.

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