Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/04/2026Youths, may I recommend you look up how the subprime mortgage crisis happened? Just, you know, for science 20548183
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Good luck @mfitejohnson.bsky.social! 010
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This will be my hardest vote yet. I so loved both of your essays. 010
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 19/03/2026"Back before anyone had cell phones, we’d drive with the windows down, shouting to other kids as we passed, pulling up to packs of cars idling at the Cenex, trying to find something—anything—to do. Something—anything—to be, other than what we were." I love this essay and its very 90s sadness. 052
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026My sweet husband who is not on Bluesky made this March Sadness promo image for me. Read, listen, and vote in the Sweet Sixteen! marchxness.com#/sweet16-gnr... 3296
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I feel great about making it as far as I did with a song that isn't exactly sad by an artist I have complicated feelings about. Huge Congrats to Cicily Bennion and @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social: I adored the sadness in both of your essays and will be rooting for you. 282
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026@lelascottmacneil.bsky.social wrote a heartbreaking essay about hearing her toxic mother's words come out of heroine Alanis Morissette's mouth. I also want to run from a "highly sensitive empath"! That and the song feel more scary slash haunting to me, though YMMV. marchxness.com#/sweet16-col...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 151
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilMartin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 19/03/2026"Uninvited" still seems more menacing or bitter than sad—Alanis's strengths! Grateful to @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social for her excellent @marchxness.bsky.social essay & the reminder of how loopy this song is: compellingly convoluted lyrics, a whole-ass orchestra, very sparing tabla (?) etc. Wild! 152
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Awww thank you!! And congrats on your big win yesterday! 120
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026My Alanis @marchxness.bsky.social essay is going up against @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social's heartbreaking essay about Collective Soul in the Sweet 16 today. Both songs are arguably much sadder when taken with the essays. Which one will win? Only you can decide! marchxness.com#/sweet16-col...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 2178
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I love Ani and I really loved your essay about this song. 110
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/03/2026Twenty two years after the end of “Friends,” Lisa Kudrow returns with a new installment of “The Comeback.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comLisa Kudrow Is Back—AgainTwenty two years after the end of “Friends,” the actress returns with a new installment of “The Comeback.” 1302
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I agree! Both excellent and very sad in different ways. 141
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"Pre-emptive grief creates a void, and if DiFranco understands one thing, it’s how to manipulate voids." 162
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Your essay was brilliantly sad. And I loved all the literal crows. 110
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 14/03/2026"When I was young, I swam in the deep end of sadness. I luxuriated in those murky waters, and whatever might dwell in their depths." @mlfaliveno.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay brought me back into the sad 90s teenager I used to be, and gets my vote. marchxness.com#/2ndround-my...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 063
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I've been a huge March Xness fangirl for the better part of a decade and this is my first official tourney essay—getting to the Sweet 16 is thrilling! Thank you to everyone who read and voted. Rage can be sadness too. 3193
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeildoritoshangover.bsky.social @doritoshangover.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This Collective Soul vs. Des'ree @marchxness.bsky.social matchup is impossible. "The World I Know" and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet are both PEAK '90s sadness. HELP. 184
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilAnder Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I'm not voting against Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," a top shelf weeper, at least not yet, and I like Casey's essay a lot. Rooting for it here, but Lela makes a strong case for a surprising Alanis song: marchxness.com#/2ndround-mo...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 294
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilErin Langner @erinlangner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026“I turn on one track repeat, dig my nails into my palms, let myself dissolve. Eventually I don’t exist outside of this song, this tender cave of feeling. “ I mean, these lines alone are such a gut punch, it seems impossible to vote otherwise. 021
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 13/03/202690s sadness has a particular flavor and tint. Grateful to be so filled with it from all these gloriously sad March Sadness essays. marchxness.commarchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 062
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilLike “Beyond (Don) Delillo” @cbiondolillo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Raitt's sad. But, she said, in dramatic, I'm voting for the more wrenching @marchxness.bsky.social essay. @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social & a complicated Alanis: "I told myself I needed nothing, but it wasn’t true & I’m grateful I don’t listen to that voice anymore." marchxness.com#/2ndround-mo...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 033
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilKatie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026i've always heard "uninvited" by @alanismorissette.bsky.social as "menacing," as @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social writes in a searing, harrowing essay for @marchxness.bsky.social. i do think "i can't make you love me" is a *sadder* song, but this matchup is brutal! marchxness.com#/2ndround-mo...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 042
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I do think Bonnie Raitt has the sadder song in this match, all things considered, but @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social's mother-betrayal transforms Alanis's "Uninvited" into a much sadder song than it plays unattached to the essay, so taken as a package it has an edge: marchxness.com/2ndround-mor...marchxness.com3/12, 2nd Round: (7) Alanis Morissette vs (2) Bonnie Raitt — March Sadness 90s Edition 1132
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Thank you! That means a lot! I loved your essay too, one of a handful that brought real tears to my eyes. 110
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Help my Alanis Morissette essay about grief and rage and the Hard Rock Cafe make it to the sweet sixteen of 90s sadness? It's the saddest thing I've ever written, and that should count for something. 120
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Thank you! I'm glad I was able to communicate the devastation I felt/feel. 010
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Beating Elliot Smith in a tournament of sadness feels like a real accomplishment. And I loved Jamison Crabtree's quietly heartbreaking essay. 1101
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 07/03/2026"horror-film twist" is maybe my favorite compliment I've ever received about my writing 161
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 07/03/2026While researching my essay I read Alanis said she watched a rough cut of the movie and was going through something similar to the Meg Ryan character, which makes me think: similar to a surgeon who falls in love with an angel no one else can see? In what way similar?? 140
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilMelissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I have loved many @marchxness.bsky.social essays and have not posted about them all, but @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social’s Alanis essay especially got me. I no longer have a relationship with my mother, and while this relationship was largely different from mine, I still felt a chill of recognition 0112
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilCheryl Graham @cherylgraham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“I keep being confronted by a choice: learn to re-parent myself or let my pain hurt everyone around me, like my mother and her mother before her.” Oof, this one is a gut-punch from @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social marchxness.com/1stround-mor...marchxness.com3/6, 1st Round: (7) Alanis Morrissette vs (10) Elliott Smith — March Sadness 90s Edition 0114
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilAllison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Love Alanis no matter what, especially because "Sometimes she has to unhinge her jaw to let the full sound out." And WOW, this essay is a sadness I didn't expect (meant as a complete, because whoa it packed a punch!) 142
Reposted by Lela Scott MacNeilMarch Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 06/03/2026MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 FINAL SCORES: BELLE & SEBASTIAN 89, Lauryn Hill 82 DES'REE 147, Goo Goo Dolls 127 BEN FOLDS FIVE 123, Skid Row 64 LISA LOEB 111, Lee Ann Womack 49 New games just went up at marchxness.com. Read, listen, vote by 9am AZ time 3/7. 0103