to join her onstage for a poignant “Seventeen.” “I thought of all the people that represented the big change in my life over the last few years, and Norah was someone that I grew up admiring.”shows footage of Van Etten and Jones in the studio after the performance, cutting a swaggering version of the song “She’s just so easy to be around,” Van Etten says. “I think it can be really stressful in the studio when you have time constraints, everyone’s squeezing it in.
Van Etten and Jones’ duet may sound more laid back and folky than the studio version, but it still contains a heart-wrenching yearning for youth. The song’s nostalgia has drawn comparisons to Springsteen, and Van Etten is more than okay with that. “I’m from Jersey,” she laughs. “I admire him very much. I think he represents the working class in a way that a lot of songwriters of his caliber don’t really pay attention to.
As Van Etten unpacks her new home in Los Angeles — “I have to learn how to get used to nature,” she says — she thinks about whatreally represents: a love letter to New York. “You don’t have to hate New York to leave it,” she says. “It will always be there, it will always be changing. I’ll go back. It might be more of a see later and not so much of a goodbye.”
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