Starlee Kine is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on This American Life and Marketplace. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is the co-creator of the Post It Note Reading Series in Brooklyn.

In this story, which originally aired on NPR’s This American Life in August of 2007, Ms. Kine talks about what makes a great break up song and details her efforts to put her break up with her boy friend into song, seeking advice from break up song expert, Phil Collins.

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“Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know”….Groucho

Let’s talk about songs. Songs are the background music of our lives. They are playing everywhere, all the time. They are captions to our memories and the sign posts that mark our individual time lines. They are playing when we fall in and out of love, when we get married, when our children are born and when loved ones die. They soothe us, commiserate with our predicaments and inspire us to action. Read More