She's the Mann

If you just can't get enough of Magnolia's one-woman Greek chorus, visit Internet music company MusicBlitz and download Aimee Mann's ''Susan'' (MP3, available at www.musicblitz.com), a track that will appear on the forthcoming Bachelor No. 2. Ah, those deceptively mellow vocals, those gently jangly riffs reminiscent of ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' — and, of course, that edgy-for-pop subject matter: counseling a friend to exit an unhealthy relationship. Clearly a graduate of the Sarah McLachlan school of gynocentrism (as opposed to Tori Amos U.), Mann eschews graphic depictions of abuse for an equanimity that borders on Buddhism: ''I know he can't come here to get me/And some day he will live to regret me/Susan, I can see it now.'' In other words, don't expect a plague of frogs. A