My friend played Metric in the car and I felt the urge to listen to their stuff again, especially their old stuff. The stuff I listened to a lot in high school. And then we fell down a rabbit hole. Continue reading Songs from High School
…I think about how much I’ve grown and changed. My path went in a very different direction than I wanted…I guess it went in the direction I expected it to go in. But that’s okay. Continue reading “Uninvited” by Mallrat
Another entry in my song reflections series. I don’t like reading song reviews, or generally watching song explanation videos but I distinctly remember Mitski being quoted as saying that the lover she sings about in many of her songs is not any person, but rather “music, or a music career, or the ability to make music” (this article references another article where this quote happened, and I assume this is the sound clip it comes from). But basically, when I hear a Mitski song, it has an incredible impact on me if I imagine her as me, expressing myself to … Continue reading Almost any Mitski Song
I still listen to this song occasionally, and sometimes, but not always, I have a very visceral flashback to my summer walking to and from the CREATE Lab, along Fifth Avenue in the sweltering heat and sun. Continue reading “Trouble” by Ruby Fields
I took a class called Experimental Animation last semester and it was shown to us as an example of interactive animation….I chose to highlight this one because I was listening to it on a whim and was immediately carried back to the emotional and mental turmoil I was in at the time I first heard the song in this class. Continue reading Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” and The Wilderness Downtown
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