Ian Sweet‘s Jilian Medford has dropped a cover of the Broken Social Scene classic “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” Medford’s vocals are a perfect fit for the 2002 track, as she quietly conveys the pain and desperation of lines like “Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the …
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Last February, after Coldplay performed an emotional, choir-backed “Fix You” on SNL, Chris Martin ran into his biggest fan. “I kind of forced him to meet me,” Jilian Medford recalls with a laugh. “He had just come off the stage and I was like, ‘Hi! I love you so much. …
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Ian Sweet, a.k.a. singer-songwriter Jilian Medford, is back with the single “Your Spit,” which serves as the first glimpse of her new album Sucker. The track opens with a glittery beat as Medford’s voice sneaks in, revealing a playful chorus of “Kiss me like you mean it.” The accompanying video …
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