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Hey, who else's July hasn't gone at all as they planned?  (Not strictly good or bad, but...sideways?)  Just me?  Eh, whatever, I wrote some reviews. Mimi Webb "Confessions: An Unexpected Turn Of Events" You'd think an album where the Meghan Trainor feature is one of the best things on it would be a disaster, but hear me out!  I somehow found myself liking this pop album that sounds like it was made between 2015 and 2017, then shelved until now (it was not). And I think that has to do with framing: more mine than its.  When we think of something as dated, we usually mean passé; something trying to capture a zeitgeist that's been left in the dust (and still thinking it's nailing it).  But this to me feels dated as if it's a period piece; something not trying to recapture a lost time, but to explore the identity of that period.  (Which, given there's plenty of people over 35 that think anything after 2010 doesn't have any cultural markers at all, ...