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“Waxwing” starts off much like any other indie song feathery vocals over a gentle guitar line heavy with reverb. But
Rosie Cima & What She Dreamed’s latest single is far from the soft-spoken ballad you might initially believe it to be. At the post-chorus, it develops into an angry elegy to a dead friend. The funeral is at the heart of the song the event invitation says to wear bright colors, and the song’s protagonist, perhaps Cima herself, dons yellow, which makes her look like “the shadow of a waxwing slain,” a line that comes from