Thursday music corner: Aimee Mann first garnered attention as the lead singer of 1980s pop group 'Til Tuesday, which had a top 10 hit in the US with the 1985 single Voices Carry. As a solo artist she achieved breakthrough success with her 1993 album Whatever, which featured guest performances by ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn and veteran session drummer Jim Keltner, and was praised by many including Elvis Costello and author Nick Hornby. Her music inspired director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film Magnolia, and she was nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy for her work on the film soundtrack. From it, she played her song Save Me at the 72nd Academy Awards in March 2000.
Mann’s ninth solo album, Mental Illness, came out in 2017 with its lead single, Goose Snow Cone, inspired by a photo of a friend’s cat’s brush with minor surgery and the resulting ‘cone of shame’. The album won a Grammy (justifiably) in the folk category (inexplicably).
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