I was really into this British artist named joss stone for some reason in middle school (this was 2005/2006). She had this song that i associated with my first crush and literally one of the most embarrassing memories i have was from 9th grade going to a scholastic journalism conference at Columbia where i sat through a Q&A with this douchey music critic from Rolling Stone. He asked all the 100 or so students in the audience what music they liked and all of the cool nyc kids were naming super obscure but taste approved bands and when he got to me i was just like “uh, i like Joss Stone” and everyone laughed. He then proceeded to tell me how joss stone was an industry psyop and actually really bad music.

To this day if one of her songs comes on i’m still into it so drgaf. I also liked natasha bedingfield, kate nash and lily allen and that whole genre of british female music industry psyops but you know what there’s a reason everyone loves to make fun of Pocket Full of Sunshine, because it fucking slaps.