(Deduced from the fact there's a song on it called 'Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club')
When she was a kid growing up in Chicago, Ezra Furman watched John Hughes’ seminal 1985 high-school-angst movie. “I’ve probably seen that film 90 times,” says the 35-year-old singer-songwriter, on a video call from a hotel room in Seattle, where she’s on tour to promote her sublime new album,. “Ally Sheedy’s character was always my favourite. She’s got her claws out in such a cool, outsidery and feminine way.
.” It’s emblematic of an album that explores aspects of Furman’s identity — she came out as trans last year; she is also Jewish and the parent of a three-year-old son — alongside wider, connected ideas about community and togetherness, and finding solace therein. Musically, she was “thinking a lot about Bob Dylan and The Shangri-Las. Both have this kind of majesty to their songs, but from completely different directions. I was trying to see how these teenage-girl groups from the 1960s and serious protest singers have something in common. You know, how, ‘Let’s run away together, they’ll never understand us, we’re gonna make a new world’, overlaps with, ‘A day is coming, burning like a torch, when the wicked will be judged and the poor will be vindicated.
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