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Music videos don’t usually make me feel things but oh my god

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This is my favourite Christmas song ever.

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Okay, maybe this one is cheating a little.  It’s not really a Christmas song.  But it mentions mistletoe!  That’s close enough, right?

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Welcome to Lena’s Lead Up to Christmas!

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!

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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.

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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.

-- Lena

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star wars edit with WW84 trailer music | by voordeel_ts [x]

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THE BOOHOO-HUND + DULCIMER

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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

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how… how did I not know abt this

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An Inuyasha sequel is in the works?!

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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

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This talent tho

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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.  

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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”