Rob Me Blind by Jay Brannan in The Song Remembers When

If you don’t know Jay Brannan, it wouldn’t be surprising. He’s a cult artist who initially found fame in a truly explicit scene from the movie Shortbus. His appearance in that movie segued into an indie music career in which he alternates between witty songs about singledom or depressing musings on life’s quirks.

His latest album, Always, Then & Now, just came out at the end of last summer and it’s okay. But it was going to be hard to hit the watermark that was 2012’s Rob Me Blind. The title track is one of my favorite songs ever written. I also very much love the music video. Some people won’t get it (my mother told me it was the most boring music video she’d ever seen) and that’s okay. But there’s a quiet devastation in the lyric.

I still get goosebumps whenever I hear this song. It came out while I was living in Paris and I got to see Jay there (I’ve seen him countless times in the last 10 years), it has such a special connection with me. I really hope you enjoy it.