Waste Away

Genre/Style: 80s female-fronted rock

Touchstones: Heart, “Alone,” “What About Love,” “These Dreams”; Starship, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”; The Dream Academy, “Life in a Northern Town”

Themes: Obsession, identity, self-worth, agency, narcissism

Myth: Echo and Narcissus

Notable telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 3.337-508 (8 AD)