Ian Sweet Covers Broken Social Scene

Ian Sweet covers Broken Social Scene's “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” The track is out today, via Polyvinyl records and to stream
Ian Sweet photo by Briggs Ogloff

Ian Sweet the project of Jilian Medford, has shared their cover of Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” Medford says on the cover: “Broken Social Scene’s music has always felt like the equivalent of a hug, and I think at some point everyone has to have *that* moment with ‘Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl.’ Or maybe you have it more than once. This song hits different for me now than it did when I was actually 17, and I imagine it’ll hit a little different each year I get further away from that version of myself. It so poignantly nails the difficulty of trying to exist within the moment of being a teenager while you’re simultaneously looking towards the inevitable transitions looming on the horizon. You want to cry.. and you should cry.

Simply put: It. Fucking. Crushes.

And even though covering someone else’s work is weird and strange and almost always feels like perhaps it shouldn’t be done, I’m willing to say effusively that I never want to escape this song. With this small act, perhaps now I can’t! The original is essential, other covers have taken it to amazing places as well, and now I’ve recorded my version hoping a few more people will get to shout the lyrics at the top of their lungs and FEEL FUCKING INCREDIBLE doing so. Here’s hoping a thousand more artists do the same and that this song just never dies.”

Ian Sweet 2024 tour Dates

Fri. May 3 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress %
Sat. May 4 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern %
Fri. May 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Brain Dead Studios
Sat. May 11 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel %
Thu. May 16 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom %
Sat. May 18 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox %
Thu. May 30 – Boston, MA @ Royale Boston #
Sat. June 1 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground #
Mon. June 10 – Richmond, VT @ Broadberry Theatre #
Wed. June 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West #
Sun. June 16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #
Tue. June 18 – Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant Street #
Wed. June 19 – Buffalo, NY @ Electric City #
Fri. June 21 – Portland, ME @ Portland House of Music #
Sat. June 22 – Catskill, NY @ Glen Falls House #
Sun. Oct. 13 – Berlin, DE @ Prachtwerk
Mon. Oct. 14 – Brussels, BE @ Le Botanique
Tue. Oct. 15 – Paris, FR @ Supersonic
Wed. Oct. 16 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left of the Dial
Tue. Oct. 22 – London, UK @ The Lexington

%= w/ Caroline Rose
#= w/ Nation of Language

Order “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl” HERE

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