SOUNDTRACK: MICHIE MEE & TONYA P.-“Made It” (2018).
I read that Michie Mee is the most famous, pioneering rapper in Canada. And yet, if you look at her discography she has only released two albums in thirty years (!)
Her first one came out in 1991. Her second in 2000. But she is still active and seems to release an occasional single and collaboration. She has also been in a lot of TV and films.
This single is kind of odd because they sing about having made it, but it’s been over twenty-five years since she made it. It’s a simple, nice, catchy song, quite different than some of her more explicit harsher singles.
The more I learn about Michie Mee, the more fascinated I am by her and wonder what she has been up to.
[READ: April 2019] “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
I first read this story in the October 21, 2013 issue of the New Yorker (when they republished it).
This is a straightforward but fairly complex story, with a lot of emotional heft. A married couple, Grant and Fiona, have been together for a long time. Fiona had always written notes to herself, but Grant sensed recently that the notes were becoming somewhat alarming. Instead of books to read or appointments to keep, she was writing “cutlery” on the kitchen drawers. Then she started forgetting normal things–like how to drive home or that something which she thought had happened last year had actually happened 12 years ago. Not major problems, but causes for concern.
And so, Fiona was sent, at first temporarily, to Meadowlake. Grant was told not to show up for the first month–they found that patients settled in better if they were not reminded of their house and old life. After a month of wondering about her and thinking about her, Grant goes to Meadowlake, excited to see Fiona. But when he arrives she is not in her room–their touching reunion scene will not be enacted as he pictured. And the nurse seems rather impatient with him when he asks where she is. (more…)
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