{"id":10042729,"date":"2025-12-03T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10042729"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:06:17","slug":"chainlacings-cover-of-girl-so-confusing-just-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2025\/12\/03\/chainlacings-cover-of-girl-so-confusing-just-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainlacing&#8217;s cover of &#8216;Girl, so confusing&#8217; just makes sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, honestly, we were speechless when we woke up to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chainlacing.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chainlacing&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> rendition of &#8220;Girl, so confusing&#8221; last week (November 28). Pop&#8217;s hatchet burial of the decade &#8212; orchestrated by Charli XCX and Lorde &#8212; was a whip-smart document of mixed signals and mended relationships when it debuted last year as part of Charli&#8217;s <em>BRAT<\/em> rollout, and the song sounds just as fresh when filtered through Chainlacing&#8217;s dreamy &#8220;gloomgaze&#8221; this winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cover from the New Hampshire band appears on a <a href=\"https:\/\/sistersweird.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-compilation-to-benefit-science-club-for-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new compilation<\/a> benefitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceclubforgirls.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Science Club For Girls<\/a>, a nonprofit that &#8220;fosters excitement, confidence, and literacy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for girls and gender-expansive youth from underrepresented communities.&#8221; Some other familiar names on the album include Sailor Down, Linnea&#8217;s Garden, TIFFY, Thrust Club, and Sapling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using one of pop&#8217;s premier collabs &#8212; spearheaded by two women &#8212; to create a more accessible gateway to the world of STEM? 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The cover from the New Hampshire band appears on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4108,"featured_media":10042730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,64],"tags":[36023,34738,147,36022,26409,754,19912],"class_list":["post-10042729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston-news","category-music","tag-a-compilation-to-benefit-science-club-for-girls","tag-chainlacing","tag-charli-xcx","tag-girl-so-confusing","tag-header","tag-lorde","tag-new-sounds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chainlacing&#039;s cover of &#039;Girl, so confusing&#039; 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