[Sometimes, I make promises with no intention to follow through with them. This is the case with the "I would buy this" of the top forty. I never really intended to buy any of the songs; after all, Stephen had given them all to me. I had them all.
But at the same time, I have listened to The Origin of Love approximately forty times since I finished the top forty, which means that he could have just given me a list of forty tracks and each one was the Origin of Love and I probably would have had as much to say.
I have re-listened to the songs in roughly this order:
Origin of Love - Mika
Happy - Pharrell
Wake Me Up - Avicii
Roar - Katy Perry
Sweater Weather - The Neighborhood
Hey Love - Quadron
Royals - Lorde
And I have had cause to actually sing Work by Azalea in a Chemistry class within the last week. ("Walk a miiiile in the Looobertiiiiiiiiines")
So I have listened to a few of these songs quite a few times, and none more than Mika's explosive gloryhouse of wonder and song. I felt like I owed it to him. I really wanted him to benefit in some small way (more than just ad revenue) from my extreme enjoyment of his song.
I think I'm going to buy his album. I have to listen to the rest of it, of course, but I think I'm going to actually use actual money and buy a cd new from the store, which I haven't done since OK Go released Of the Blue Color of the Sky. Woah.
But today, I took a small step towards that, and using a $1 credit on my Amazon account, I purchased Origin of Love for $1.29. A step in the right direction.]
She started crying when she was on the phone. We hadn't even said anything sad--it was more about the lack of emotion than anything else. And I don't think she was just filling the gap with something. It was just the gnawing that gave her grief.
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Am I wrong in interpreting "gnawing" as equated with "nothing"? An interesting choice.
ReplyDeleteGnawing is what your insides do when you don't satisfy them for long enough.
ReplyDeleteGnawing is what your emotions do when they want to be let out of your heart-cage.
... Gnawing is what your racehorses do when they don't have enough interesting things with which to occupy their time.
ReplyDeleteIf you were wondering.
I love how 75% percent of this post was not the actual post, but more top 40 fodder. "Origin of Love" doesn't really strike me as a great album, but I haven't felt the need to sit down with it. I do like the song that follows it..."Lola", it's snappy and would work well on tha DANCE FLO. Azalea has such an odd voice. I think I'll do a short ratchet playlist (and blog for it) either at the end of my semester or by the next time you come down to visit.
ReplyDeleteI like how this post is like 75% Top 40 fodder. Mika's album didn't really grab me though I like the song that followed the title track, "Lola". Azalea has such a odd voice. I can already tell this year's list will be a wide shift from styles of last year. EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE. Short ratchet list/blog probably after my semester is over.
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