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The other highlight in Juliana Hatfield’s career was her stint in The Lemonheads for the It’s A Shame About Ray album.

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Yeah, that was her lead-in to the Juliana Hatfield Three, I believe. I neglected to mention that, but she was definitely becoming a bigger part of the alt-rock scene at the time, and I'm sure her association with that album helped.

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I loved this song when it came out but tbh was still salty that the Blake Babies had split up. Took me a long time to really appreciate Hatfield as a solo artist.

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I was a big fan of this song and album the year it was released. I had a connection to the lyrics as my biological sister and I were estranged during that period. I also had a friend who I affectionately referred to as my sister who had also distanced themselves from me at the same time. So the song really hit home - both the "I hate" and "I love" sections of it. Later that year the Juliana Hatfield Three opened for the B-52s at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Other than feeling stuck in a mosh pit, it was a pretty magical night. I liked a lot of the songs on her follow-up album and then, as you mentioned, she fell off the charts. Years later she did cover albums of ELO, The Police, and Olivia Newton-John songs. Quite a twist in her career!

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