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brittany spanos 🧿
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December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i'm available for freelance work, bio writing, consulting, anything! for now going to start writing a newsletter over on substack

best way to support me right now is to subscribe!

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BRIT POP | brittany spanos | Substack
a music & pop culture newsletter by brittany spanos. Click to read BRIT POP, by brittany spanos, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
i also feel confident in saying i helped make our coverage younger and cooler 😘
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
so so proud of the work i did there. just this year i published three cover stories, wrote two extensively reported longform features and hosted the first live rolling stone interview event
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
💔💔💔
September 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
thank you!!
September 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
thank you for reading :)
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
But Robin finished producing the album just as three of the girls entered middle school. They had moved on. But little did they know that the album had taken on a life of its own...

Read more here!

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Four Best Friends Made an Album as Kids. 25 Years Later, It's a Cult Classic
In 2000, X-Cetra recorded a homemade album called 'Stardust.' After being posted online, it took on a life of its own.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The one problem was they needed music to go with the girls' lyrics. Enter Achim Treu, a German composer who was friends with Robin and her husband Don. They used his dark, lofi synth scores on what would become 'Stardust,' X-Cetra's only album

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Four Best Friends Made an Album as Kids. 25 Years Later, It's a Cult Classic
In 2000, X-Cetra recorded a homemade album called 'Stardust.' After being posted online, it took on a life of its own.
www.rollingstone.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Eventually they found their way to songwriting. Luckily, Robin O'Brien, mother of Janet and Mary, had made a name for herself in the home taping scene and had turned a guest room into a studio where she helped the girls' vision come to life

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Four Best Friends Made an Album as Kids. 25 Years Later, It's a Cult Classic
In 2000, X-Cetra recorded a homemade album called 'Stardust.' After being posted online, it took on a life of its own.
www.rollingstone.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ayden, Jessica, Janet and Mary all met in Santa Rosa, California in the Nineties and loved building imaginary worlds, whether it was homemade movies or a living room dance studio

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Four Best Friends Made an Album as Kids. 25 Years Later, It's a Cult Classic
In 2000, X-Cetra recorded a homemade album called 'Stardust.' After being posted online, it took on a life of its own.
www.rollingstone.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM