"Aimee Mann.......Anti-Man?"

I finally figured out why I like the music of AIMEE MANN....particularly in this month of February.

Aimee, if you're not familiar, writes and sings brilliant yet MELANCHOLY songs, almost all of which are about men who, as Marshal Dillon of "Gunsmoke" once said, are best described as "RumDums."  See, the "RumDums" Aimee writes about are immature, lazy, shiftless and incapable, it seems, of commitment or trustworthiness.  Some are druggies and drinkers.

And I only listen to Aimee in February because that's the month my MOM was born....her life was a tragic parade of useless "men," one after the other.  Some were even downright ABUSIVE to her...my sisters and I witnessed this personally, as little kids.

Above: Aimee describes "RumDums" as "Dodos," Lol!!

Yes, I think of my mom, and what she went through again and again, as I listen to Aimee's songs about the guys she was involved with.  Torture?  Not really, it helps me to feel CLOSER to mom, and what she went through in life. I try to remember HAPPY things about her TOO (see my previous blog, for an example of this.)

Anyway, if you listen to Aimee's lyrics, you might conclude she's a Marvel superhero...or bad guy...known as "Anti-Man."  (This is not to be confused with "ANT-Man" who is a "real" Marvel hero!! I said Aimee Mann might be known as "ANTI-Man" because of her songs.)

But Aimee is not, in the judgment of charity, "ANTI-Man," she's just telling the truth about guys she's been involved with and making a lot of money DOING so (it would seem that many have had similar experiences, looking at all the records she's sold!!  At least she found a way to PROFIT from it all!!)

My mom profited in a BETTER way from her pain with "RumDums," however.  Towards the end of her life, when she knew she was dying, she wrote poems declaring her new love for JESUS who was always faithful and never let her down, and suffered for HER rather than causing HER to suffer.         And she finally forgave my DAD for LEAVING.

So perhaps THAT is why I like to listen to Aimee in February, it helps me think of my mom's tragic life and triumphant DEATH...and I wish AIMEE would come to know Christ one day, also.

Above: my favorite album by Aimee.  Every song is a masterpiece, and so is the ARTWORK!!


But back to this thought, Aimee is NOT against men, she's just telling the truth about SOME of them (except for TRUMP, she unjustly hates TRUMP even though, ironically, one of her songs was "Build That Wall," Lol!!)  Aimee is not, as the title of her last album suggests, a victim of "Mental Illness." Aimee's songs about these "RumDum" guys are based on real experiences, unfortunately. We should remember this as we might be tempted to poo-poo the growing number of women who have public gripes against men.  Not all of them are crying wolf, jumping on board the MeToo bandwagon. or are gold diggers.  And not ALL are man-haters or mentally disturbed.

Some truly ARE victims of bad men and their own bad choices, and it's good Aimee Mann has helped remind us of that.