Stephenie Meyer, the author of Twilight, discovered some “awesome CD’s” this summer. Her website was updated over the weekend, displaying a new post containing a few music suggestions for her readers. In her own words:
“No matter how busy I am, I can always listen to music, so I have a longer list of recommendations here. So, awesome CDs I discovered this summer:
Animal Collective — Merriweather Post Pavillion
Silversun Pickups — Swoon
White Rabbits — It’s Frightening
The Dead Weather — Horehound
Grizzly Bear — Veckatimest
Meese — Broadcast”
Her other suggestions include The Weakerthans and Elbows, “Seriously, Elbow owns my iPod right now.” Stephenie Meyer is, perhaps, the most advanced music listener among her literary peers, since she goes on to later express her love for Jack’s Mannequin, The Fray, and Blue October in the same post:
“Also musical, I got out to a few good concerts. Meese was with Jack’s Mannequin and The Fray—lovely. If you haven’t seen these guys live, do. And then I got to go see Blue October again. I love their shows. You can’t really know Blue October until you see them live. It’s an amazing experience.”
Untainted by the deadening grasp of Pitchfork and the blogosphere, Meyer is able to enjoy music without bias or media pressure. If vampires and people can get along, Animal Collective and The Fray can exist on the same iPod.
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13 Responses
Maybe she's Carles?
Who exactly are Meyer's literary peers that she's more advanced than?
she sincerely loves all those bands equally! bizzare? yes. advanced? quite possibly.
or she's just trying to appear hip for her teen demo. i have a hard time believing a stay-at-home mother of two in the middle of nowhere follows p4k.
why no dirty projectors? and I have definitely been spelling her name wrong for the past year. I had no idea it was an "e" and not an "a". Blargh. also — do you think these are bands she's hoping to get to soundtrack her franchise?
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That's awesome. I wonder if I will be rubbing elbows with her at the next Bowery Ballroom show. I saw Chuck Klosterman at a Wilco show at McCarren Pool last year. He was wearing a T-shirt that said something about Black Sabbath and drugs.
no way she has better music taste than John Green and his books are amazing
damn.
i guess its not cool to listen to grizzly bear anymore.
Is she ever going to finish the book that was leaked on to the internet??? The first book but in Edward's point of view??
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