Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande
b'Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called \\u201cQueens of the Summer Hotel.\\u201d It was inspired in part by Susanna Kaysen\\u2019s best-selling memoir \\u201cGirl, Interrupted,\\u201d about Kaysen\\u2019s time in a psychiatric hospital. Mann sat down with Atul Gawande at The New Yorker Festival to talk about the new album, the lessons of living through a pandemic, and how liberated she felt when she broke her ties with major record labels. \\u201cWhen you\\u2019re at a record label and you\\u2019re trying to ascertain whether something can be a hit or a single, you listen in a different way\\u2014and then everything sounds like garbage,\\u201d she said. Mann decided that she didn\\u2019t \\u201cwant to keep baring my soul to people who hate everything I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d\\xa0\\nThis segment was originally aired November 26, 2021.'