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5 Cigarette Mom Rock Songs From the 90s and 2000s That This Dad Loves With His Entire Buttrock Heart

You’ve heard of Divorced Dad Rock, now let the musical stylings of Veruca Salt and Fefe Dobson nurture your inner Cigarette Mom.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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As a Buttrock/Divorced Dad Rock father, I have to give it up to Cigarette Mom Rock.

Sure, bands like Creed and Nickelback might be what you want for some garage beers. But when you’re rippin’ darts in the yard while the kids splash around in a 10×10 plastic pool, you need something more matriarchal. These four songs are that for me, and they can be for you, too.

“One of Us” by Joan Osborne

I started to use this one to tell a whole personal story about Joan Osborne’s “One of Us”. Thankfully, I quickly realized that the absolutely worst thing I could do here is make this profoundly talented, multi-Grammy-nominated female musician’s career all about me, a man.

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