'I Think It's Hard To Be A Person': Aimee Mann On Compassionate Songwriting
The singer-songwriter's music has long been characterized as melancholy. For her album Mental Illness, she leaned into that stereotype, writing songs that empathize with other people's struggles.
Aimee Mann's music has always been characterized as melancholy. So on her new album, Mental Illness, she decided to lean into the stereotype.
"A friend of mine was asking me what the record was about," Mann says, "And I said, 'Oh, you know,
