Sean Fennessey

My own kind of personal, I don't know about anxiety, but just kind of like that personal cringe of like, oh, this is a thing I loved and now it's being made

For people 40 years later, there's something very odd about that sensation.

But this movie, Mile and Kicks, to me is probably the closest that I'll get to the feeling that you have with The Devil Wears Prada.

Where Chandler Levack wrote and directed this movie that is clearly very autobiographical about her experience.

working in the world of music journalism and working for music magazines like me she worked for spin for a period of time she went back to canada and worked for local um music magazines and reviewed records and her character in this film played by barbie ferreira attempts a 33 and a third book i never wrote one of those but i certainly thought about it and i certainly thought it was important to write one who would you have wanted to do well that's a generous question um

I think probably Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys.

I know, what a shameful moment that was.

There's any number of interesting albums I would have liked to have spent time on, but...

You know, this movie is like, it's Francis Hot Meets Almost Famous.

It's a very personal coming-of-age story about a young woman trying to find love, trying to be professionally successful, obsessed with music, obsessed with the culture of music.

But then the closer you get to it, the more you realize that the people that are inside of that world can be kind of shitty, can take advantage of you, can treat you poorly.

I didn't have the exact same experiences that the Barbie Ferreira character had.

I'm obviously not a woman.

But...

to see music journalism circa 2011 and like, kind of like the shithole career that that was, you know, the way that you were paid for things, the things that you got so excited about, getting free CDs, going to go to a show.

At the time, I was having the time of my life.

I wasn't having, I made all my best friends during that period of my life.

I, to this day, love music and think about it all the time.

But it also shows just kind of like how dingy all that is and how it's the, it's the opposite of the Devil Wears Prada.

Where there's no glamour.