Dear Besties 💌 Lucy Dacus Inspired Jewelry, JBrekkie Album Giving Us Life, Sing Karaoke with Lana?? + More!

a discovery playlist featuring weekly top 10 music releases

1. Japanese Breakfast- Winter in LA: One of my favorites from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), this song just feels so effortless. Michelle’s vocals are soft and airy, and the production makes it feel like the perfect soundtrack for a long drive. It’s warm, nostalgic, and hits that sweet spot between happy and sad.

2. Jensen McRae- Savannah: Jensen’s songwriting is unreal, and Savannah is proof. I haven't found a song that strikes me right in the heart like this one does in ages.

3. Susannah Joffe- Shit out of Luck: This song is pure catharsis. It’s twangy, punchy, and has the perfect amount of attitude—like screaming in your car after a situation that absolutely did not go your way. Susannah keeps proving she’s one to watch, and this track is further proof that country-pop heartbreak anthems will always hit.

1. Ethel Cain's new album is coming soon, and we will be SAT. 

2. When Naomi slayed ATG ‘24. Reflecting is giving us all the feels!

3. Kesha and T-Pain are releasing a single together and I’m living for a 2000’s revival.

4. Clairo and Phoebe Bridgers scream-collab.

5. Can you imagine singing karaoke with Lana?!?!?!

6. Accidental Lorde siting, I’ll eat up any Ella content I can get.

7. Miley’s new album “Something Beautiful” is coming out on May 30th!

8. Julien Baker & TORRES mural spotted outside of Grimey’s in Nashville. 

9. I wanna dance with Tate McRae in the sunset :(

10. Lucy Dacus BTS content for her piece in Them.

giveaway time, besties!

This week, we have a special treat for our besties! We’re giving away a carabiner AND necklace inspired by Lucy Dacus’s upcoming album, Forever Is A Feeling, which comes out this week! These pieces are made by the incredibly talented @jewelrybyjac, who creates such cool one-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings, carabiners, and more inspired by your favorite artists and music.

Winners will be announced next week!

Not a member yet? No worries! 2025 info for Besties All Access is coming soon, and a new jewelry drop is coming March 29th full of one of a kind pieces! I especially love their Clairo and Ethel Cain inspired necklaces but everything they make is just gorgeous… you won’t regret checking them out.

movies, tv shows, and actors on my radar right now

1. 13 years ago, The Hunger Games was released in theaters. Now we are sat reading “Sunrise on the Reaping”, anyone else?

2. How it feels to be a beautiful woman forced to work on a Monday.

3. This Meryl Streep and Martin Short interaction is giving me life.

BOTW: Susannah Joffe

Susannah Joffe is a musician from Austin, TX known for her indie-pop music and electric performances. Her song “Die Your Daughter” has over seven million plays on Spotify. Joffe is currently touring the US and just released a new single “Shit Out Of Luck”.

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 What does life look like for you right now?

 Ins and outs for this month? 👑📅🫶

Ins: Gay people at the shooting range, Undying devotion, Writing letters you will never send, Wigs, Theme parties, Praying as an atheist and saying that this time you will really believe in God, Boyish haircuts, Being nice to strangers, Plaid, iMessage stickers, Blunt honesty

Outs: waking up with random bruises, eating out (unless it’s p***y), the color beige, snorting anything up your nose, inviting people out of obligation, chicken, shaving

What’s your favorite hobby right now? What’s a hobby you want to get into this year? 🛹🧘‍♀️📷

I’ve been really enjoying cooking - I have been picking 3 new recipes from NYT to cook each week and it feels relaxing to wind down by making something for myself or to share with others. Food is a huge part of my relationship with myself, my girlfriend, and my friends, so being more involved with it is very rewarding except for when it tastes like shit, but right now I’m working with a 75% success rate. I need to learn how to knit so mf bad but I swear to god it is hopeless, but maybe the stars will align and I’ll become a knitting legend overnight.

Piece of media that’s influenced you 🎼🖼️🎬

“Marie Antoinette” by Sofia Coppola and “Thelma and Louise” by Ridley Scott. Both made huge impressions on me as a kid and if I had to sum up my two most recent singles, it would be with those films: pastel, gay, horny whimsy.

Any interesting/silly/fun recent tour anecdotes? 🎆🤪🙈

The last tour I did through Texas, this fan that has come to all my Texas shows handed me a bouquet and also showed me a tattoo she got that I drew for her, which was surreal. I am also beyond excited to be going on tour with Alix Page this Spring, and I anticipate an anecdote from that tour will be “OMG I blew up on this tour and am a superstar now!”

Describe your recent work by a color/season/mood/something interesting 🍂🌨️🌼

Pastel pink lasso tattooed on the back of a wild mustang named Beau.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? 🦸‍♀️⚡️🕸️

Oh teleportation without a doubt. I spend probably so much of my life in transit. On a good day it’s sitting on cross-country trains from London to Inverness. On a bad day it’s being de-boarded at some station in the middle of England because there’s a fault in the line, or hour-long passport control queues in Luton airport. Also, I don’t get to see my gran enough. The ability to zip and zap back to Inverness would be great.

Is there an artist you’ve seen live that blew you away? 🪕🎫🎤

Not to be that bitch but…. Mk.gee’s live show was a spiritual experience. It was all I thought about it for the months following, he is ethereal.

What are you listening to right now? 🎧📻💿

“Love is like a butterfly” by Dolly Parton is stuck in my head all the time, along with “All That Jazz” from Chicago. Yes, the rumors are true, I was both a choir and theatre kid.

What fashion pieces have you been into lately? 👗🎀🧢

I’ve been on a crazy burlesque rabbit hole lately, along with anything leopard print or cone bras. In another life I knew how to sew and was posting up in full costume every day but that is another thing that sadly was not meant to be. I’m also in desperate need of a new pair of cowboy boots because my gold ones are on their last leg.

Favorite sad song ever? 😭🎻👩‍🎤

This is a toughie…right now I really love “Snake Eyes” by Sadurn. I think my favorite sad song ever may be “Goodbye Virginia,” which is a song my Dad wrote about having to leave Virginia when I was a baby. I hate change and am a sentimental girl, so it really hurts in the best way. We put it out under a father-daughter project called “Your Daughter’s Father,” and I highly recommend it if you’re a fan of sad indie folk.

What song/lyric are you most proud of? 📓🪞💌

I am proud of the line “I will die your daughter” because of how much that singular line has impacted people in my community. But the song I am most proud of has to be “Shit Out of Luck” because of how simultaneously different it is from all my music and authentic/unique it feels to me. It draws its fiery spirit from the vengeful, queer-coded western classic “Thelma & Louise.” Me and my producer really played around with this song, like we used a lot of kitschy, southern-fried sound bites: a horse’s neigh, the crack of a whip, the thunder of a rifle. But underneath all that, it is a super honest song about a heartbreak that cuts to the bone. One of my favorite lyrics is: “you taught my hands how to hold, talked of grocery lists and growing old.”

What’s a lyric you think about often? 📃🏹💭

“I found blood and I saw stars all in the backseat of your car.” God I think about that line all the time, it’s from “Indie Rokkers” by MGMT. It just gives me chills in the both the best and worst way.

What’s your dream collab? 🫂🔮🫧

So many answers: I’d love to collab with Role Model in some way, whether that be a tour or a song. Same goes for The Chicks, who I grew up listening to, Suki Waterhouse, Clairo, Lana del Rey, Stephen Sanchez, and Chappell Roan.

Top 4 favorite films? 🎞️⭐️🎥

Catching Fire (I’m a closeted YA/fantasy esque nerd, yes I’ve read ACOTAR and I loved it) The Proposal, Black Swan, & Blue is the Warmest Color (which I watched hours before coming out to my family when I was 19).

Favorite TV show right now and favorite TV show ever? 📺🎙️🎭

My favorite TV show right now is Yellowjackets and I think my favorite TV show ever would either be New Girl or Glee.