Christina's pick: "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell

Dating and sex at any age can always feels like push and pull. But they feel particularly intense during these ~millennial years~, when one can be so torn between desiring someone, even coveting them, but wanting your own freedom. Joni wrote this when at age 30, and it resonates today. If you listen closely she plays with the lyrics "you love your lovin" and "we love our lovin" - which I've always read as her mediating who is the one with power, and who's vulnerable in any romantic relationship, throughout the course of the song. Such a poetic way to capture this cat and mouse game we all know so well. God, I love Joni. I promise to stop disproportionately representing Canadians on this blog soon, I swear.