Ian Sweet Releases New Cover of Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl”: Listen

Ian Sweet is following her 2023 album, Sucker, with a new cover of Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl.” Listen to the track, and find Ian Sweet’s upcoming tour dates, below.

In a lengthy press statement, Ian Sweet mastermind Jilian Medford said:

Broken Social Scene’s music has always felt like the equivalent of a hug, and I think at some point everyone has to have *that* moment with “Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl.” Or maybe you have it more than once. This song hits different for me now than it did when I was actually 17, and I imagine it’ll hit a little different each year I get further away from that version of myself. It so poignantly nails the difficulty of trying to exist within the moment of being a teenager while you’re simultaneously looking towards the inevitable transitions looming on the horizon. You want to cry… and you should cry.

Simply put: It. Fucking. Crushes.

And even though covering someone else’s work is weird and strange and almost always feels like perhaps it shouldn’t be done, I’m willing to say effusively that I never want to escape this song. With this small act, perhaps now I can’t! The original is essential, other covers have taken it to amazing places as well, and now I’ve recorded my version hoping a few more people will get to shout the lyrics at the top of their lungs and FEEL FUCKING INCREDIBLE doing so. Here’s hoping a thousand more artists do the same and that this song just never dies.