And She Was by Talking Heads

This week’s Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Kendrea Rhodes:

“Everyone at school had thought the flying girl in that video was on drugs, but she wasn’t.
They didn’t recognize her power to levitate and fly away and see the world.
They didn’t recognize her person-hood beyond domesticity. Or her wonderful weirdness. She did though.
I was her every time I played it.
I was her as I outgrew my town after high school and donned a backpack.
As I boarded a plane   &   my power to levitate opened up the world.”

—Kendrea Rhodes