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…
Fetty Wap, Trap Queen I know, I know, me and half the US never get tired of hearing this song. BUT THAT HOOK, THOUGH. It’s like the A part of the chorus is the hook, building tension to what is more…
I’ve lived in Charlotte for 8 years, and it has never and likely will never feel like home. So, I’ll pick two songs that remind me of the places that have felt like home. Afghan Whigs, Rebirth of the…
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…
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,…
I’m going to pick a song and a DJ mix. First, the song: KMDFM’s Drug Against War (Overdose Mix) Few things make me happier than running, and this is my favorite song to run to. It’s really fast, and it’s…
Ok, so this is another hugely hard question. Like, we could talk what I hate on the Hot 100: anything ever by Adam Levine, Ed Sheeran, Hozier, Meghan Trainor; anything ever related to The Beatles, Mumford/Arcade/Muse/etc…but that’s boring. That’s a…
My friend and fellow musician and philosophy blogger Leigh Johnson has done the 30-Day Song Challenge every year since 2011, and this year she’s invited others to join her. Because this would be a group thing, and it would be…
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…
Doreen St Felix’s amazing piece on Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Get My Money” hones in on Rih’s black feminist approach to the flows of (artistic, financial) credit, and to Rih’s method of accounting. “To be a black woman and genius, is…
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