Okay, look. I work in retail. I am not a big fan of Christmas music, and having to listen to Christmas music for up to 8.5 hours a day at work is close to agonizing.
So for the next few days I will be posting my favourite not-very-Christmas-y Christmas songs. Enjoy!
It... somehow didn’t occur to me that I could just delete things from my iTunes library? So I went through and deleted a bunch of stuff. Mostly duplicates or instrumentals from soundtracks or stuff my mom bought for retirement slideshows using my account.
As I was going through, I was thinking, ‘There are so many good songs here that I haven’t heard in forever. Why do I use the skip button so much?’ But the answer is partly that even if I don’t like a song anymore I tend to hold on to it for sentimental value. Even if I can only think of one specific scenario where I’d want to have that song on hand.
I have a lot of duplicate songs. Sometimes for good reasons! Like the same song covered by different artists, or a studio version and a live or acoustic version.
Sometimes there’s not really a great reason. Like sentimental value. (I don’t like the song “Just the Way You Are”! Why do I need Alex Goot’s cover AND the original?) Or wanting an album to be complete. I don’t need two versions of Cake by the Ocean that are exactly the same! But it’s on the SWAAY EP and the self-titled album DNCE, so if I want to listen to just one of those albums I need both versions.
This blog is going on an indefinite semi-hiatus for awhile. Jack and I have some personal stuff going on and I don’t have the energy to run this blog by myself while taking 5 courses and working two jobs.
I will probably still post occasionally, but there’s definitely going to be no set post schedule, and we will not be posting daily.
Music in Film: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) dir. Cathy Yan
Music supervision by Gabe Hilfer and Season Kent
Jack Edit here: I used to live in africa, and this is 100% true. It’s wild.
Finally listened to all music! My favorite song was an untitled file called “ssssddsdrt66677888.ogg” that I found on a flash drive that I found in a landfill in Tunisia
This is such a fantastic mashup, oh my god. Someone in the comments pointed out how the baseline and the lyrics are always opposite songs. Absolutely brilliant.
someday, in the distant future, humans will once again be capable of hearing the phrase “what is love” without also feeling the primal urge to respond with “baby don’t hurt me”
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