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There is a seemingly endless 

stream of movies that render 
the complication and emotional 
devastation that terminal illness 
inflicts 
upon 

love. 
From 
the 

classic “Terms of 
Endearment” 
to 

the teenage tragedy 
“The Fault in Our 
Stars,” moviegoers are eternally 
transfixed by the storyline of love 
persisting in the face of imminent 
death. In Stephanie Laing’s Netflix 
original “Irreplaceable You,” Abbie 
(Gugu 
Mbatha-Raw, 
“Belle”), 

a 
headstrong 
woman 
freshly 

diagnosed with stage four cancer, 

takes charge of her grief by striving 
to find a new love for her fianceé, the 
sheepish yet sweet Sam (Michiel 
Huisman, “Age of Adaline”), before 
she passes. Though Abbie’s life-
changing condition presents new 
challenges, it is the irrationality 
illustrated which shows that the 

soulmate-level love 
shared by Sam and 
Abbie is powerful 
enough 
to 
grant 

an 
immunity 
of 

sorts that prevents 

their relationship from ever truly 
wavering. Despite the frustration 
that the unrealistic resiliency of 
their relationship evokes, there is 
something strangely commendable 
about the film’s ability to restrain 
from trying to do too much with 
such minimal potential.

This acceptance of its limitations 

aside, the film is still fundamentally 
flawed in its initial failure to invest 
viewers into Sam and Abbie’s 
relationship, a misstep that slows 
the already dry and uninspired 
plotline. The brief, commercial-like 
montage filled with slow motion 
flashbacks of Abbie and Sam as 
children and teenagers near the 
beginning of the film serves as a stab 
at providing background. However, 
attempting to sum up Abbie and 
Sam’s history within the span of 
a few unbearably cheesy minutes 
is ineffective, and unintentionally 
forms a gap between the characters 
and the audience. Instead of 
providing detail or substance about 
why Sam and Abbie fell in love or 
giving context for the backbone of 
their relationship, the montage is 

‘Irreplaceable’ plays it safe

In a Poem Unlimited is musician 

Meghan Remy’s (a.k.a U.S. Girls) 
eighth studio album since she 
started exploring the depths of 
the pop genre with the release of 
Introduction in 2008. At first listen, 
U.S. Girls’s In a Poem Unlimited 
is a groovy experimental pop 
record with horn-laced tracks and 
whammy guitar hits that move 
through the decades. It’s a record 
of emotional exploration jumping 
across the base of free psychedelic 
rock to peaks of rigid electronic pop 
all in 37 minutes.

Despite its varied sound, In a 

Poem Unlimited contains three 
constants: 
Remy’s 
disco-era, 

flower petal voice, the theme of 
domestic abuse and her emotional 
reactions to the state of the world 
in her lyrics. While the entertaining 
instrumental diversity makes it 
hard to pick up the emotionally 
exhausting content at first, the 
second listen slams into you with 
each note and every carried out 
synth.

Remy 
begins 
the 
record 

showcasing her talent to hit a 
nostalgic ’70s groove tune with the 
clean and precise sounds of modern 
production using combinations of 

light drum taps and dragging synth 
notes in “Velvet 4 Sale.” Its light 
sounding nature is contradicted in 
Remy’s vengeful lyrics. She sings, 
“But don’t forget the revenge / Act 
like you got some velvet for sale / 
Then, you destroy their hope for 
deliverance / Don’t offer no reason 
/ Instill in them the fear that comes 
with being prey,” offering a piece 

of advice to others who may have 
been taken advantage of or abused 
in a similar way to how she was 
that’s revealed in the later songs of 
the record.

This disco pop tone of the record 

flows through the first few songs 
and grows into a more calm and 
easy flowing beat with hints of 
violin and light ’90s nightclub pop 
notes. It sounds smooth and free, 
even with its noticeably repetitive 
nature and leaves us in a place of 
relief with “Rosebud.” Remy sings 
“Who holds the key is what you 
need to know / you and you alone,” 
giving listeners a note of hope as she 
displays a moment of self-saving 
from the turmoil she’s endured that 

parallels the smooth and forward-
moving sound of her voice.

But, Remy doesn’t allow her 

listeners to get comfortable with 
her style as she moves in an 
entirely different direction and 
circles back into a place of rigid 
trauma in “Incidental Boogie.” 
Remy sings “Life made no sense 
without a beating, you see? / And 
life was just too quiet / Without 
no one screaming at me,” turning 
over ear-aching synths and robotic 
voices expressing the bottom level 
of acceptance with abuse. Her 
troubled vocals move through this 
disturbing numbness throughout 
the 
entire 
record 
until 
she 

interrupts with “Poem.”

Remy moves through the soft 

electric sounds of “Poem” and 
ends with the lyrics, “What are we 
gonna do to change?” and begins a 
journey of recovery in her final song 
“Time.” She sings, “When there is 
nothing there is still time,” over a 
fast and groovy pop sound giving 
herself and listeners a place to step 
out of the muddy past.

Each song on In a Poem 

Unlimited is carefully crafted to 
stand on its own, but listening to it 
in the context of its whole cultivates 
a cathartic experience of heavy 
reconciliation and recovery from 
domestic abuse laid over a deep 
exploration of all things pop.

‘In a Poem Unlimited’ is 
as cathartic as it is groovy

ALBUM REVIEW
SAMANTHA NELSON

Daily Arts Writer

“Irreplaceable 

You”

Netflix
SELENA AGUILERA

Daily Arts Writer

“In books I have traveled, not 

only to other worlds, but into my 
own.” - Anna Quindlen

It’s the end of February, spring 

break is looming and all I want 
to do is get out of Michigan. 
Whenever I’m struck by a case of 
wanderlust, the cause and the cure 
are usually the same: books. So, 
in honor of spring break, here is a 
list of books that will both get you 
itching to travel and allow you to 
do so from the comfort of your own 
home. Accompanying each book is 
a song to listen to while reading — 
something that will set the mood 
for the specific type of adventure 
the author is describing.

1.“Eat, 
Pray, 
Love” 
by 

Elizabeth Gilbert / “Unwritten” 
by Natasha Bedingfield

The first time I read “Eat, Pray, 

Love” was on a family road trip 
to Maine. I was 13, so obviously a 
family vacation was the last thing 
I wanted to do. Like, Mom — I 
can’t believe you made me skip 
Sam Zipin’s bat mitzvah for this. 
In a huff, I ended up reading “Eat, 
Pray, Love” twice over the course 
of that trip. Liz became my guide 
on a journey I hadn’t even known I 
wanted to take. She’s not fearless — 
instead, she is unafraid of her own 
fear. Her descriptions of traveling 
alone make the adult world seem 
exciting rather than scary, which 
was exactly the kind of escapism 
I needed as a nervous middle-
schooler (and also the kind I need 
right now). Gilbert’s eloquent 
rendering of Italy is enough to 
make any snow-sorry Michigander 
sigh: “Just for a few months of 
one’s life, is it so awful to… nap in 
a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in 
the middle of the day, right next to 
your favorite fountain? And then to 
do it again the next day?” I dare you 
to read this book and not want to 
go on a year-long solo adventure of 
self-discovery (and also somehow 
to feel as though you already have).

2. “The Alchemist” by Paulo 

Coelho / “El Condor Pasa (If I 
Could)” by Simon & Garfunkel

I’ll be honest: My inaugural 

experience with this book was in 
my eighth-grade English class, 
and I definitely Spark-noted some 
of it (sorry, Mrs. P). I reread it 
last year, and it’s so good. Coelho 
is a master storyteller. His tale 
takes the reader on a literal 
and metaphorical journey with 
Santiago, the young Andalusian 

shepherd who is searching for 
meaning in the fantastical, mirage-
filled Egyptian desert. Coelho’s 
language is awe-inspiring and 
almost spiritual: “We are travelers 
on a cosmic journey, stardust, 
swirling and dancing in the eddies 
and whirlpools of infinity. Life 
is eternal. We have stopped for a 
moment to encounter each other, 
to meet, to love, to share. This is 
a precious moment. It is a little 
parenthesis in eternity.” It’s hard 
to finish this book without feeling 
like you carry with you a new trove 
of secrets about the nature of the 
universe.

3. “On the Road” by Jack 

Kerouac / “Tangled Up in Blue” 
by Bob Dylan

I know this is cliché. I know, 

I know. Still, it’s hard to deny 
how beautifully ambitious, heady 
and breathlessly raucous “On 
the Road” is. Kerouac clearly 
articulates a youthful, bohemian 
longing for freedom: “There was 
nowhere to go but everywhere, so 
just keep on rolling under the stars. 
Nothing behind me, everything 
ahead of me, as is ever so on the 
road.” Kerouac is particularly 
popular among angsty college 
students, and I get why — he’s 
kind of a hipster, and so are his 
characters. The endless cigarettes, 
the messy hair, the moody nights 
spent drinking black coffee and 
writing poetry — can’t you imagine 
Timothée Chalamet playing Sal 
Paradise? There’s also something 
bittersweet about reading “On the 
Road” in 2018: Kerouac’s beatnik 
America is a place we cannot travel 
to outside of books and poetry. 
We’re lucky, then, that Kerouac is 
such a skilled tour guide, a fanatic 
host who, like us, is “desirous of 
everything at the same time.”

4. “In a Sunburned Country” 

by Bill Bryson / “Down Under” 
by Men at Work

I 
came 
away 
from 
this 

travelogue with two things. The 
first is that I want Bill Bryson to 
narrate my life. The second is 
that Australia seems like the most 
incredible, strange and beautiful 
place on Earth. Australia, Bryson 
says, “is at once staggeringly 
empty and yet packed with stuff. 
Interesting stuff, ancient stuff, 
stuff not readily explained. Stuff 
yet to be found.” It is so delightful 
to hear Bryson discuss all this 
stuff! Like Agatha Christie’s classic 
“Murder on the Orient Express,” 
a large part of the narrative of 
“In a Sunburned Country” takes 
place 
on 
a 
cross-continental 

train trip. Rather than murder, 
however, this trip is dominated by 
Bryson’s boundless curiosity and 
his extensive, detailed recollections 
of his own bumbling American 
ways. Bryson is uniquely talented 
at injecting humor into nearly every 
meandering tangent and anecdote 
about Australian history, and the 
experience of reading is one of 
complete immersion into a richly 
textured and singularly bizarre 
country.

Book recommendations 
for your spring break bag

BOOK NOTEBOOK

MIRIAM FRANCISCO

Daily Arts Writer

feebly unoriginal and monotonous, 
framing 
Sam 
and 
Abbie 
as 

simply “meant to be.” Posing 
their love as so eternally perfect 
consequentially makes it near 
impossible for viewers to interpret 
the relationship as genuine or 
believable. This bare-bones and 
over-idealized initial portrayal of 
Sam and Abbie establishes a one-
dimensional foundation and causes 
the first half of the movie to fall flat. 

Despite its rough start, the 

film progressively gains more 
momentum and finds moderate 
success in reviving audiences 
through the tension that emerges 
as a result of Abbie’s search for 
her own replacement. Though 
somewhat morbid and undeniably 
odd, the tension that Abbie’s 
efforts breed between her and 
Sam breaths a bit more life into 
the storyline, creating friction and 
directing the relationship away 

from its preliminary artificiality. 
Perhaps even more responsible for 
the recovery of the later portion 
of the film is the introduction of 
a new relationship: an oddball 
friendship between Abbie and 
Myron 
(Christopher 
Walken, 

“Seven Psychopaths”) — a father-
like, sardonic old man from 
Abbie’s cancer support group. The 
bond formed between these two 
unlikely friends over their illnesses 
adds a sprinkle of spunk and light 
humor that spices up the narrative. 
Myron and Abbie both maintain 
exceptionally “so-be-it” attitudes 
about their impending fates, not 
wasting time dwelling on the 
inevitable and instead exchanging 
pithy banter and enjoying each 
other’s company. 

The overall weakness of its story 

does not exactly set “Irreplaceable 
You” up to triumph. Ironically, 
this works out quite well because 

triumph is not this film’s intention. 
There is no insight offered and 
no 
profound 
message 
mulled 

over when the screen goes dark. 
However, despite its general lack 
of oomph, there is something 
commendable about the film’s 
ability to understand itself. This 
self-awareness comes from a clear 
comprehension of the audience, 
who for the most part is not 
looking to be blown away with 
emotion but rather just wants 
mild entertainment, a tinge of 
sorrow and a familiar narrative. 
Viewers get exactly what they 
expect with “Irreplaceable You.” 
Deficient of pomp, fluff and over-
dramatization, this film does not 
push too hard or dig too deep. 
It accepts the limitations of its 
plotline, conceals nothing from 
the audience and spares itself the 
embarrassment of striving to be 
more than it is. 

NETFLIX

FILM REVIEW

In a Poem 

Unlimited

U.S. Girls

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