On its 25th anniversary, Andrea Warner remembers how the ultimate '90s slacker song helped change her life. | CBCMusic
How a 1-hit-wonder helped our writer make sense of a very messy and difficult 1997.
I think the sound of the heart monitor flatlining jolted me from my body, and I've never really returned. There is a before and an after when someone you love dies suddenly, and there's no going back. The most important person in my world was suddenly supposed to just be a memory overnight? His absence was an implosion of our family, our home, everything. I was in the middle of Grade 12. I was supposed to be applying to universities and colleges.
I was supposed to graduate high school in a few months and I needed to decide what was next for me. The plan had always been post-secondary and I wanted to pursue creative writing. I had already considered leaving before my dad died and it felt next to impossible. Now he was gone and I didn't know if I could leave my sister and grandma behind and go away to school.
Twenty-five years later, 'Drinking in L.A.' is still a visceral memory avalanche that buries me back in 1997, but it also builds me back up and reminds me of the good things that followed all of the crushing grief."Drinking in L.A." wasn't the first song that I loved and attempted to manifest into reality, but it was the most pivotal one. I decided I couldn't fully leave my family or put an international border between us.
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