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On the phone Rachael Yamagata is chatty, almost dangerously so. She repeatedly gets so overexcited by whatever she’s giggling about that she walks straight into people on the street. This time, she is plowing into an unsuspecting man on the sidewalks of Germany while talking about her love of the Style Network show “Cleaning House.”
“I have these weird tendencies toward designing furniture and rearranging furniture, and cleaning. If you give me a vacuum, I’d clean your whole house,” she says. “And I’d do it for 10 hours. And I’d do it for free.”
Yamagata is as upbeat as being hip allows. You’d never guess how many soul-crushingly devastating ballads she has written. Continue reading