This is one of my favorite musical and creative genres across my life, but I’m having trouble finding an example across the FV that I can access. Anybody know if there is such a community?

To ramble on-- it just crushes me that SO much friggen’ awesome & original song content appears across these two major niches, yet on radio and everywhere (it seems to me) we just hear the same old dumbed-down, formulaic bullshit. Me? Even as a cynical old man, I have absolute love for young peoples’ creativity upon such things. And there really ARE such crushingly fun / excellent tunes out there to enjoy. Couple examples:

John Cale - How We See The Light:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQ9Xt9hU3c

Tessa Violet - Nancy Sinatra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQyFFTh_YGc

Vendredi sur Mer (Charline Mignot) - Écoute chérie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqUMFj51X0

To me, these are brilliant, young* creators absolutely kicking booty, and yet we barely hear of them. Why is that…?

* Haha, John, you’re still young to ME!

EDIT : Ehhh… couple more I’ll post in the comments. What think, amigos…?

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    Released in 1990. Solid LP, actually quite accessible if am gonna be honest about it. There was a reissue some years back with two extra songs which were rather weak and listening to them, I understand why they didn’t make the cut when the album first came out.

    Here’s a youtube link to the original.

    Lay My Love is pretty salient today. Pure poetry.

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      Thank you for taking the time. <3

      As I write this, I’m somehow listening to and loving Paul’s McCartney’s “Ram On”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZDCpyTGpY
      (possibibbles a bit of irony there?)

      Oh, but if you mean this one, maybe?

      Lay My Love :
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI560hZP2zI

      Oh shit, that’s one of those songs that lays excellent groundwork, and yet never actually goes anywhere. The Human League’s “Mirror Man” is another classic example…!

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        Oh my… Human League. You’re dragging me back to my late teens now. Yaah, wasn’t a big fan of this band. Seemed a bit whiffy and it was all whiff for a lot of the bands on the charts then so they were extra whiff. LOL!

        I got hooked on the grittier New York scene - Blondie, The Ramones, Jim Carroll Band, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, The Nails… Still have much of it on vinyl.

        Geez, I gotta do something with it at some point.