exorcism #2
Jan. 19th, 2018 10:13 pmThere's the stuff ("the same old fucking three songs" according to some) that I listen to constantly, and then there's the rest of it. The rest of it gets a look-in via the shuffle though, and with insistent regularity a song I haven't paid much attention to will sneak right up and brick me. The only thing to do then is to listen to it on repeat 1000x until it's out of my system and shift it through to regular rotation.
Currently: Sharon van Etten's Your Love is Killing Me (Are We There, 2014)
Lovelorn MELODRAMA. She goes for it full-throated, over a military beat. The middle eight provides classic middle-eight relief, and then it's back into the mountainous FEELING. Over the top, but without any sense of shame it just feels epic. Unfortunately, the music video is a lesson in how to kill a good song by truncating it, robbing the build of its power. And it's boring! The pity of it.
But the song, for real -- turn it UP.
Currently: Sharon van Etten's Your Love is Killing Me (Are We There, 2014)
Lovelorn MELODRAMA. She goes for it full-throated, over a military beat. The middle eight provides classic middle-eight relief, and then it's back into the mountainous FEELING. Over the top, but without any sense of shame it just feels epic. Unfortunately, the music video is a lesson in how to kill a good song by truncating it, robbing the build of its power. And it's boring! The pity of it.
But the song, for real -- turn it UP.
