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Mikael Wood

Los Angeles

Pop Music Critic at Los Angeles Times

Pop music critic at the Los Angeles Times / “A dour, sour writer whose skeleton is filled with mean little bones” / [email protected]

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  • 4 days ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Mikael Wood

    LOS ANGELES - Jensen McRae is still chewing over something her therapist told her during their first session together. "I was talking about how sensitive I am and how I was feeling all these feelings," the 27-year-old singer and songwriter recalls, "and she was like, 'You have yet to describe a feeling to me - everything you've described is a thought.'" McRae's eyes widen behind her stylish glasses. "That destroyed me. She said, 'Feelings are in your body. Thoughts are in your head.'

  • 4 days ago | miamiherald.com | Mikael Wood

    LOS ANGELES - Jensen McRae is still chewing over something her therapist told her during their first session together. "I was talking about how sensitive I am and how I was feeling all these feelings," the 27-year-old singer and songwriter recalls, "and she was like, 'You have yet to describe a feeling to me - everything you've described is a thought.'" McRae's eyes widen behind her stylish glasses. "That destroyed me. She said, 'Feelings are in your body.

  • 5 days ago | dailygazette.com | Mikael Wood

    LOS ANGELES — Jensen McRae is still chewing over something her therapist told her during their first session together. "I was talking about how sensitive I am and how I was feeling all these feelings," the 27-year-old singer and songwriter recalls, "and she was like, 'You have yet to describe a feeling to me — everything you've described is a thought.'" McRae's eyes widen behind her stylish glasses. "That destroyed me. She said, 'Feelings are in your body.

  • 1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Mikael Wood

    Haim's "I Quit" is not quite a breakup album and not quite a moving-on album; rather, the fourth LP by this beloved Los Angeles sister trio lands somewhere between those tried-and-true schemes: Its title inspired, the Haims have said, by a third-act mic drop in the cult-fave 1996 movie "That Thing You Do!," "I Quit" is about looking back from the middle distance on a relationship that didn't work and assessing what you learned (and what you didn't) from the experience.

  • 1 week ago | latimes.com | Mikael Wood

    Haim’s “I Quit” is not quite a breakup album and not quite a moving-on album; rather, the fourth LP by this beloved Los Angeles sister trio lands somewhere between those tried-and-true schemes: Its title inspired, the Haims have said, by a third-act mic drop in the cult-fave 1996 movie “That Thing You Do!,” “I Quit” is about looking back from the middle distance on a relationship that didn’t work and assessing what you learned (and what you didn’t) from the experience.

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mikael wood
mikael wood @mikaelwood
12 May 25

a fave moment among many at sunday’s gathering of queens: patti labelle spritzing the front row with perfume during “on my own” 📷 by @carlinstiehl https://t.co/MKxuY8CXu1

mikael wood
mikael wood @mikaelwood
24 Apr 25

talked w sammy hagar about —whitney houston —recording drums in a meat locker —the time he flew on the concorde —flip-flops & —whether van halen was a pop group https://t.co/krjMxGOt5Q

mikael wood
mikael wood @mikaelwood
20 Mar 25

talked with lucy dacus https://t.co/4dGrJyivl7 https://t.co/pbzaKaOBos