From Miss Anne to Becky to Karen.

Our very own Karen.

Not that Karen.

Karen Grigsby Bates shares the evolution of the nickname

for a certain kind of white woman.

I'm looking forward to the next iteration.

I want my name back.

That's coming up on NPR's Code Switch.

From NPR music, it's all songs considered

on Bob Boylan on this week's show,

A Conversation and New Music from Sylvan S.O.

But let's start out with someone you'd likely never heard of.

Someone I'm thrilled to play for you.

The artist is Trish's.

This is the music of Trinidadian American Trish Hossain.

The song is called Gaslight.

And it's based on the 1940s film of that same title

where a man tries to convince his wife

that she's crazy through his trickery.

In the case of Trish's, it was inspired by her brief relationship

with someone she considers a sociopath

and his manipulation changed her sense of self and reality.

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