58: "Come to My Window" vs. "Closer to Fine" (with Danny Lore!)

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58: "Come to My Window" vs. "Closer to Fine" (with Danny Lore!)

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Mar 23, 2021

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Put on your comfortable sweaters because we will be listening to two absolute lesbian icons! But which coming-out anthem is the mom-folk song of a generation, Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window" or the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine"?

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Mar 23, 2021

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Hosted by Todd (in the Shadows) Nathanson and Alina Morgan, Song vs. Song pits two similar songs of an era against each other with controversial outcomes.

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58: "Come to My Window" vs. "Closer to Fine" (with Danny Lore!)

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