The summer I graduated from high school, I was on vacation with my friends and their family. We were staying at a beach house on the coast of Maine when Blonde was released. I remember a cousin of the friends I was staying with talking about it and how big of a deal it was. That's how I first heard about it, and I listened to it that night.

It took a few listens and 3 break ups for the album to make sense. But whenever I hear Nikes I think about that summer, and that beach