Broken Girl

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Broken Girl
JulieDoiron-BrokenGirl.jpg
Studio album by
Julie Doiron
ReleasedApril 1996
RecordedAugust 1993 ("August 10"),
November 1994 ("Soon, Coming Closer"),
April 26-29, 1995
Studio
Genre Indie rock
Length27:30
Label Sub Pop
Sappy [1]
Producer Dave Draves, Rick White (mixing)
Julie Doiron chronology
Broken Girl
(1996)		 Loneliest in the Morning
(1997)

Broken Girl is the debut solo album by Julie Doiron, released in 1996. [2] [3] The album can be considered eponymous, in that Broken Girl was also the stage name Doiron adopted for the album. [4] All of her subsequent albums, however, have been released under her own name.

The song "August 10" became popular on TikTok in late 2024 and early 2025, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, No. 10 on the Hot Alternative Songs chart, and No. 15 on the Hot Alternative & Rock Songs Chart, [5] as well as No. 14 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart. [6]

Prior to its new-found popularity on TikTok, the album received little commercial and critical success. [7] Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Pitchfork reviewed Broken Girl in 2003, giving it a rating of 5 out of 10 and denoting it as "an odd release", adding that "it doesn't exactly stand the test of time" stylistically and that "the material is nice enough, but it's lacking in profundity, or really anything beyond nicety". [8]

Track listing

  1. "Dance Music" - 2:16
  2. "Elevator Show" - 2:20
  3. "Crumble" - 1:33
  4. "Soon, Coming Closer" - 3:04
  5. "August 10" - 2:56
  6. "Taller Beauty" - 2:00
  7. "Grammy" - 2:20
  8. "Grew Smaller" - 2:21
  9. "Happy Lucky Girl" - 1:53
  10. "Sorry Story" - 1:54
  11. "So Low" - 2:55
  12. "Waiting for Baby" - 1:58

References

  1. ↑ "Broken Girl - Julie Doiron | Releases". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Records, Sub Pop. "Julie Doiron". Sub Pop Records.
  3. ↑ Barclay, Michael; Jack, Ian A. D.; Schneider, Jason (June 5, 2011). Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995. ECW Press. ISBN   9781554909681 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Saxberg, Lynn (29 Aug 1996). "Diva nation: Women no longer rely on shock to earn a place in pop music, as AlternaFest patrons will hear". The Ottawa Citizen. p. D1.
  5. ↑ Lipshutz, Jason; Unterberger, Andrew (January 23, 2025). "Carrie Underwood, Nelly & More Inauguration Performers Get Modest Sales Bumps, No Major Streaming Gains". Billboard . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  6. ↑ Cabison, Rosalie (30 August 2023). "TikTok Billboard Top 50". Billboard. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  7. ↑ Lapointe, Suzanne (February 6, 2025). "She recorded this song nearly 30 years ago. Now, TikTok fame has it cracking Billboard charts". Global News . Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  8. ↑ Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo (May 29, 2003). "Julie Doiron: Broken Girl". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 19, 2025.


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