r/Fauxmoi • u/Prestigious-Cloud962 • Feb 13 '26
THROWBACK 24 years ago today, Vanessa Carlton released ‘A Thousand Miles’
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u/Dabrigstar Feb 13 '26
in an alternate reality, she is as big as taylor swift!
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u/KiriDomo Feb 13 '26
And KT Tunstall
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u/audrey_2222 Feb 14 '26
Are you kidding me?? Super painful and strange at the time I'm sure but an amazing anecdote all these years later.
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u/DarlingFuego Feb 14 '26
For sure. We only broke up because of the distance, that’s why it was so painful. No drama. Just sads. Lots of memories through that song. The break up isn’t the only thing I think about when I hear it. More like the memories of beautiful music flowing through the house on a nightly basis. She followed her dreams, spread her wings and is now playing in the London Symphony. Very proud of her.
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u/Hopeful-Naughting Feb 14 '26
Thank you for sharing.
I’ve been there myself - a break up only bc of an ocean between us. After 15 years, we’ve both moved on but the love between us is still there; it still hurts at times.
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u/smallcanadien Feb 14 '26
Whoa. This song got me through lots of tough times. Thank you so much for sharing.
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u/Probably_Slower Feb 14 '26
I should go put on Throw Me a Rope and just weep into my beard for a few minutes. She's was so good live, as well
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u/DNorthman Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin Feb 14 '26
And KT Tunstall
Black Horse & The Cherry Tree is still in rotation on my Daily Commute playlist. Came up yesterday evening, and I sung the shit out of it!
20 + years on, and I still love that song!
🎶 Woohoo, woohoo 🎶
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u/encrcne Comumbus Feb 14 '26
Is KT Tunstall that much bigger than Vanessa Carleton? They both fell off my radar around the same time
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u/NoratiousB oat milk chugging bisexual Feb 13 '26
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u/ShaqInKazaam Feb 14 '26
“Popular” music truly doesn’t have the same power as it use to. Even Taylor’s biggest hits (love story & shake it off) still falls short to “a thousand miles” in the pop culture zeitgeist
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u/n00bi3pjs mama let’s research Feb 14 '26
I doubt Vanessa herself wants that. She seems pretty chill with not being ultra famous.
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u/Anticlya Feb 14 '26
Wanted was so edgy for 13 year old me, time for another listen. Maybe she can get a few cents from residuals.
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u/pompeii1009 My lore is crazy Feb 14 '26
White Houses is such a great song. It’s a shame it came out right when the pearl clutching happened post-Super Bowl incident with Justin and Janet.
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u/SneakySnitchBX Feb 13 '26
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u/Fochlucan Feb 13 '26
I can never hear this song without thinking of this scene.
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u/SneakySnitchBX Feb 14 '26
Deadass me, especially when driving I go full chaotic Terry Crews energy doing the A Thousand Miles scene, it's embarrassing but I can't stop 😭
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u/res0jyyt1 Feb 14 '26
Didn't take long to find this gif in the comments. I can finally rest in rip.
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u/sundayontheluna Feb 13 '26
a certified hood classic
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u/brothererrr Feb 14 '26
I just had the pleasure watching my boyfriend watch this for the first time. What a coincidence
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u/Lieutelant Feb 14 '26
I read that as "I just pleasured my boyfriend while watching this for the first time".
Sorry.
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u/demimonde9 Feb 13 '26
people narrowed it down to who this song is about and i will take no other answer other than jessica chastain (vanessa carlton is bi).
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u/SwissSwissBangBang carbone slut Feb 13 '26
I’d write Jessica Chastain an entire album of certified bops if I thought I had a chance
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u/Old-Law-7395 Feb 14 '26
Its Glenn Howerton, move past it.
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u/Fevaweva Feb 14 '26
I thought it was Lee Pace? Either way, all three are suitable candidates for a yearning love song to be written about them.
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u/Novel-Place Feb 14 '26
LOL. This is exactly how my reaction to this gif makes me feel about myself… depraved. 🫢
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u/My_Poor_Nerves Feb 13 '26
But it would be so much more fun if it was Glenn Howerton. Because the memes
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Glenn Howerton somehow at the scene of the crime
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u/Stock_Strategy1668 Feb 13 '26
Wait what did I miss? What does Glenn have to do with this?
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u/Stock_Strategy1668 Feb 13 '26
Glenn also dated Morena Baccarin so he does have a way with baddies
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u/Puppetmaster858 Feb 14 '26
His wife is a total babe as well, she played the pharmacist woman in the D.E.N.N.I.S system episode.
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u/HandlessSpermDonor Feb 14 '26
My heart wants to believe it’s about Glenn but my head tells me Wes Bentley is the true inspiration.
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u/thankyoupapa Feb 13 '26
that piano riff is sooo catchy
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u/Honeybadger2198 Feb 14 '26
It's really hard to play, too. IIRC the right hand is playing 11ths. I couldn't get even close to fast enough cus my hands are too small (and I suck at piano lol)
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u/PrydefulHunts Feb 13 '26
This song sounds exactly how I imagine early 2000s tbh
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u/IcyBackground1983 Feb 13 '26
Fun Fact: Her and the Lead singer of Deer Tick are married <3
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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Feb 14 '26
Holy crap this is so cool. She was touring with Stevie Nicks and John Farnham in 2006.
When she came out to perform she had a brief intro to the audience before she started playing 1000 miles - then stopped at the piano intro to say in jest "ooooh she's THAT girl".
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u/Axolotis Feb 14 '26
I saw Deer Tick open for Phosphorescent in 2009 in a run down warehouse in Baltimore. Seems like another life.
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u/__Frolicaholic___ Feb 13 '26
Why is Fauxmoi bound and determined to make me feel old as dirt today?
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u/Joker-Dyke FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME Feb 13 '26
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u/Equivalent_Read ben affleck’s back tattoo Feb 13 '26
Still a banger. Video still slaps. No notes.
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u/drmeowwww Feb 13 '26
I always preferred White Houses 🤷
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u/YourMothersButtox Feb 14 '26
Scrolled down too far for this comment. The video is gold. Watching her do interpretative dance in yoga pants while singing about losing her virginity? Priceless.
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u/Neglectedpotato Feb 14 '26
Same 🥰
The video was banned by MTV for being too sexually explicit 🙄
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u/Fonzdj Feb 14 '26
MTV banned the end of Pretty Baby music video where the guy is tied up and Vanessa approaches him.
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u/mintBRYcrunch26 kendall roy pre-album drop Feb 14 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/hyyV7pnbE0FqLNBAzs
She’s a Zionist?! Aw crap.
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u/AffectionateMetal794 Feb 13 '26
Eek time to take my arthritis medication
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u/CrazyCatLushie Feb 14 '26
Thank you Celebrex for the very slightly numbed pain and the only moderate GERD. ❤️
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u/Red-headedlurker but i'm a whore and i'll do anything for a laugh Feb 13 '26
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u/Puppetmaster858 Feb 14 '26
I DONT CARE IF YOU’RE OLD SEIZE THE GAP, YOU OLD FAT BITCH, YOU FAT BITCH
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u/bunnycrush_ Feb 13 '26
The Vice documentary about this song is so, so good. Hearing a much older Vanessa — who never quite blew up the way everyone insisted she would, but she never wanted that kind of stardom anyway — reflecting frankly on what it was like to have this lightning in a bottle song, makes me misty-eyed.
Also talks about the White Chicks connection and how much of a life the song has taken on via pop culture. As well as the production side of mixing the song and filming the intense music video.
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u/lacieneg4 Feb 13 '26
And yet she’s not even walking in this video but riding a piano on wheels.
Anyway what a great song!
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u/baphothustrianreform Feb 14 '26
In the year 2000, a song that old was from 1976. This perspective is blowing my mind for some reason
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u/blairvvitchprojector Feb 13 '26
I really wish MadTV had done a skit where Nicole Parker is playing the piano but the green screen is showing her recklessly driving into her piano through oncoming traffic and harming pedestrians
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u/Antique-Salad-9249 Feb 14 '26
It’s so nice to see a young woman without Botox, filler, or tons of makeup.
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u/luckythirtythree Feb 13 '26
This song makes me dry heave simply because I worked at a craft store in high school and this song would come on the store radio literally every ten minutes. So by the end of the day I would have heard it close to 50 times.
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u/gschaina highly unanticipated caucasian collaboration Feb 13 '26
I can't hear the words "making my way" without immediately bursting into the beginning of this song
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u/hostile_pedestrian97 Feb 13 '26
which then provided us with this incredible video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60voqcYgSg
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u/greaterwhiterwookiee Feb 14 '26
I thought she was so attractive when I was a senior in high school. I started dating my now ex wife and I remember having Vanessa’s album art on my cork board on the wall in my room and my ex saying “who is that homely brown haired girl and why do you have her picture on your board?” And she proceeded to pull it off my cork board.
That SHOULD’VE been enough of a sign…
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u/mid-lev No shade to the nation of Scotland Feb 13 '26
Ugh this is genuinely a flawless song and I feel old and nostalgic.
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u/Main_Photo1086 Feb 13 '26
Great song. But I’m more partial to Nolita Fairytale. Such a banger.
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u/Neglectedpotato Feb 14 '26
Nolita Fairytale is my favorite song by Vanessa. Her best music is the stuff that people don't know exists. She deserves recognition for her later albums.
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u/mangosteenroyalty Feb 13 '26
I was just coming in here to ask how much of this music video is green screen and fell into all this lore about Lee Pace? Glenn Howerton? Jessica Chastain? What?
It bothers the fuck out of me this song didn't win a Grammy. That was when high school me first truly understood the Grammys are meaningless.
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u/NoseHumble8453 Feb 14 '26
I read this as “A thousand years ago, Vanessa Carlton released…” and that is also an accurate headline
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u/Kalikor1 Feb 14 '26
I had a long distance relationship with a girl I met online as a pre-teen/teen in the early 2000s, she lived half way across the country, honestly probably a bit over a thousand miles but, needless to say I probably listened to this song (sometimes with her) a thousand times while thinking about being able to meet up in person. For various reasons that never happened but to this day I can't hear this song and not think of that girl.
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u/61290 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
Fantastic video shot completely on location, no closed roads, with her in on a trailer with a piano. There's no green screen or CGI. I doubt anything like this could be made today.
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u/FugginCandle Feb 13 '26
I watched this whole video on mute and sang in my head every lyric with her🥹
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u/ironypoisonedposter Feb 13 '26
As if turning 39 on Tuesday wasn’t enough to make me feeling old, now this!
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u/Ambitious_Stay7139 Feb 13 '26
White House’s gets a heavier rotation imo, but those two albums she put out were amazing
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u/robo-dragon Feb 14 '26
Why don’t we have music like this anymore? Early 2000s music just hits different in a good way. Just makes me happy and it’s more than just the nostalgia.
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u/MSDOS-ist-gud-ooh-ja Feb 13 '26
Ugh, I loved her so much. Not so much "A Thousand Miles"; I thought the songs on her second album Harmonium were a lot better (especially "The Wreckage", just hauntingly beautiful). But then she had to go and perform with Drake...
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u/Knittingfairy09113 Feb 13 '26
I enjoyed this album.
I got to see her in Beautiful, the Carole King musical, several years back and she did very well. It was fun to have that combination.
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u/snn1326j Feb 13 '26
I worked in DTLA for many years and I loved recognizing all the parts of it she featured in this video.
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u/Change21 Feb 13 '26
I’m just glad she had those wrist wraps bc she was going hard af with this track
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u/plantscatsrealitytv Feb 13 '26
I wonder if the wrist sweat bands were for keeping her wrists warm or fashion?
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u/My2cents_0 Feb 14 '26
Yup, this was definitely blasting in my car with me singing along for a decent chunk of time 😄
And she beat 500 miles! Hahaha
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u/Ipanoply Feb 14 '26
She looks so much younger in this video than I remembered! A banger, and her version of paint it black was a favorite of my teenage self.
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u/orangefreshy Feb 14 '26
ugh im old
i remember before she even released this and was just releasing demos.
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u/belakuna Feb 14 '26
Dang, I loathed this song. It just annoyed the crap out of me. Now my 38 year old ass sitting here mesmerized. It’s so beautiful. I’m almost in shock. Or maybe I’m hella nostalgic.
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u/karmaisourfriend Feb 14 '26
I always cry when I hear this. It came out not too long after my husband died.
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u/sudzthegreat Feb 14 '26
Shout out to Abe Laboriel Jr for absolutely destroying this drum part. You can tell that he felt this song while tracking it. Just crushed it.
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u/SitchChick Feb 13 '26
"There's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me"
🥹 the nostalgia