30 Day Song Challenge, Day 8: A Song You Know All The Words To

I’m somewhere between not giving a fuck about lyrics and actively hating them. They’re just not what I listen to (or: all those music theory courses turned me into a structural listener, thanks Adorno). There is one song I lip…

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 5: A Song That Reminds You Of Someone.

L7, Pretend We’re Dead   In high school, this was my favorite song. I remember listening to it in my best friend Emily’s room, and recording it off the radio. I still have the tape of song from 97x. This…

30 Day Song Challenge, Day 4: A Song That Makes You Sad

This was a hard one. I think I listen for sound and for aesthetics, but really never for emotion per se. This song sounds melancholy, but I wouldn’t say it makes me sad. I actually like it a lot. Peter Murphy,…

Is the Music Genome Project…Racist?

There are a lot of reasons to headdesk over this 538 video about Pandora’s Music Genome Project and its application to music therapy. There’s the video itself: some people in my twitter TL found its cinematography too precious. There’s the…