Aimee Mann Discovers That Having Feelings About Terrible Things Is Perfectly Fine

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann has a reputation for making music that is raw, emotional, and sometimes not all that cheerful. In real life, she’s perfectly cheerful – thank you very much – and has traveled a long road of depression, anxiety, a difficult childhood, and writer’s block. Through it all, she’s taken a calm, considered, and creative approach to problem-solving that has served her well. Oh, and one time as a teenager she wrote a terrible song about hobos.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, before we get started here, I just wanted to thank you for your amazing
0:04.4	support of the hilarious world of depression. It has been so great. All the messages you've
0:09.6	been sending us, the emails, everything. Thank you. On this program, you hear light-hearted
0:14.4	conversations about mental health that don't make light of the disease. You've heard
0:19.7	people, funny people, talk about the pain and ridiculousness of struggling with mental health,
0:25.4	stories that reflect how so many of us feel but can't always articulate stories that stick with
0:31.4	you and help you feel less alone and fight the stigma in our society. It's your donations that
0:37.6	make this show possible. We need your support. It shows that these stories really matter. To make your
0:44.7	gift to the hilarious world of depression, click the donate button at hilariousworld.org.
0:50.5	Contribute any amount today, any amount that you can, that feels right for you. Hit the donate button
0:56.9	hilariousworld.org. Thanks. Is depression funny? Yeah, sure. Sure, it can be cartoon of man with dark cloud overhead.
1:20.5	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Mell. My guest this week is someone who is funny,
1:49.1	all on her own, but somehow becomes more funny when you contrast her actual fun, easy-going personality
1:56.5	with the sometimes intense, emotional, not-at-all funny music that she sometimes makes. I am Amy Man.
2:05.1	And we are at a facility of some kind. It's on Los Angeles. We were at the Marketplace Studios in LA.
2:15.6	Amy Man became famous in 1985 with the band Till Tuesday and the song Voices Carry. You know.
2:22.4	Amy has since put out loads of music on her own, including nine acclaimed solo albums. The
2:44.2	latest is called Mental Illness. She also composed and performed most of the music for the movie Magnolia.
2:52.4	I know Amy a little and I'm a big fan of her music. And given the show that I host when she put out
3:19.8	an album called Mental Illness, I wanted to find out what was up with that.
3:50.8	I often start with talking about people's families, but I kind of want to cut to the thing I'm most
3:57.2	curious about, which is the title of the new album Mental Illness, because there isn't a song on
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