Juliana Hatfield on Lightning Might Strike, Grief, Moving Out of the City

Juliana Hatfield stops by to talk with Kyle Meredith about her 20th album, Lightning Might Strike, a pop-rock gem born from a rough couple of years that included loss, depression, and uprooting her longtime city life for a house in the woods. She digs into writing through a “long, slow, nervous breakdown,” finding narrative threads in songs like “Falls Apart,” the unexpected heaviness behind “Popsicle,” and how working alone at home slowed the process but sharpened the focus. Hatfield also reflects on her early days with the Blake Babies, why some of that catalog is hard to revisit, her recurring lyric motifs, and the possibility of returning to her acclaimed cover-album series—this time with a full R.E.M. tribute.

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