Song · Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen
“Like I Used To” by Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen
“Like I Used To” by Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen appears on 11 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2021 and 2026. Its best result is #5 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 indie & aaa song of 2021, #4,876 indie & aaa song of all time and #132 of the '20s.
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Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen had been passing each other for years on the touring circuit, peers who high-fived on the highway more than once, before Van Etten worked up the courage in June 2020 to ask whether Olsen would sing with her, and then, by her own admission, got greedy and sent over a track she'd been working on. That became "Like I Used To", written by the pair and produced by John Congleton, a big-hearted heartland-rock duet.
Olsen said she'd always been too shy to ask Van Etten what she was up to, and that the song took her straight back to where she started, before music, or much of anything, was expected of her. The video, out May 20, 2021, puts the two side by side in matching shag haircuts, which says plenty about the kindred-spirits feel of the thing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 12 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 100 |
| 2021 | 55 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 35 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2021 | 91 |
| 2021 | 26 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 8 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021 | 104 |
| 2021 | 5 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 513 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 1211 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 468 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2026 | 585 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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