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She had been so fucking resolutely chill. For a year. For two! For going on three. And still: negative. Again. Again. Another.She’d walked a hard, uphill mile by now, on the dirt road out behind the property, and stopped to catch her breath, after which she let out a guttural scream into the indifferent, desolate hillside, the chilly blue sky, the smattering of cotton-ball clouds.
The property was an artists’ colony, a hybrid rehab/camp/meditation center for creatives, no counselors or authority figures, no mandatory anything. Three dozen writers and musicians and poets and painters and sculptors and composers got a small stipend to live/work here for a few weeks or months at a time, rehearsing inevitable little reenactments of family amidst good old-fashioned no-excuses creative practice and the occasional fuck-fest.
She was here to mess around and make room for whatever might come next. It had been Jerry’s idea. Her manager. Aviva’s fourth album was dropping in a matter of weeks, and there was a looming tour, biggest of her career thus far.“Keep your pants on, Jer; it’s just some recorded songs for sale.” “Whatever, you little twat, you better get your head on for what’s coming. Relax. Lie low. Write some new songs. You gotta be a step beyond whatever you’re touring with.
The second album had been produced by some slick asshole-for-hire. Said asshole had pushed her into the wrong look/narrative/sound. Heavy on the drums, some ironic synth. She had known it was wrong. An uncomfortable costume. But what had she known about the business back then? She had wanted to get along, be agreeable, and was marketed as a more or less crazy bitch nevertheless.
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