#RADIO SONG

[myimaginaryradio]

Radio Song - R.E.M. - 1991

[enosai]

help. song?

been looking for a song i heard on the radio, but cant find it for the life of me. Music side of tumblr can you help me find a song that has lyrics that go something like: I love my life, i love my life, enough to live it twice. and something thing about pizza? sounds modern, like late 2010's-2020's. help

[fallinginreversefanblog]

OMG, this is better news than any stupid haters's any shit this week!! ❤️ SiriusXM Octane put up the weekly charts and FALLING IN REVERSE "ALL MY LIFE" IS #1!!! At first place!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

CONGRATULATIONS RONNIE!!!! 🥹❤️‍🔥❤️

[thisaintascenereviews]

Hardy - Quit!!

I don’t quite believe in the idea of a “guilty pleasure,” because I’m at the point in my music fandom that if I like something, I like it. The closest I’ve come to it is in the beginning of 2023 when country artist / songwriter Hardy dropped his second album, The Mockingbird & The Crow. Hardy is a songwriter turned artist himself that’s responsible for Florida Georgia Line becoming popular, ultimately bringing bro-country to the world for about five years or so. In recent years, though, he’s turned to making his own music, finally getting a breakthrough with “Wait In The Truck” with Lainey Wilson in the last couple years.

I’ve listened to his debut solo album, and it was fine, albeit generic country, but Mockingbird is a different beast entirely. It’s a double album that has one half being country and the other being hard-rock. The country half of the album was pretty straightforward and generic, but it had some decent hooks and lyricism. The rock side was a little better, despite being a butt-rock album. It had the catchier and more energetic songs, but I’m not going to pretend they were great.

The Mockingbird & The Crow was a rather ambitious record, but it was also pretty bland and self-indulgent that showed Hardy wanting to have his cake and eat it, too, especially by wanting to have a more ambitious project in a new sound that still has generic country songs that will surely be played on the radio. Fast forward two years later, and we got his follow-up, entitled Quit!! This record, along with its title track, is an ode to the “haters,” specifically someone that wrote “quit” on a napkin at an open mic.

I wasn’t looking forward to it, because that song is awful, and so were the other songs that preceded this record, but I wanted to check it out so see if maybe the songs would be better in context, or if the album would be stronger as a whole, versus the lead singles. Unfortunately, “Quit” is exactly what I would do if I put this stinker out into the world for everyone to hear, because this is a really bad album, and it’s easily one of the worst of the year. Not only does this album have no idea what it wants to be, at least when it comes to its sound, hardly any of these ideas are what I’d call “good.”

As much as I was a Mockingbird & The Crow apologist, and thought that album was “okay,” this one is bad. Right off the bat, we got the title track, and this is a very obnoxious rap-rock track that he feels the need to employ here, but it’s all about how he won’t quit, despite people not liking him. He’s really obsessed with this idea, because he also talked about that a lot on the previous album.

The subject doesn’t get any better as the album goes on, as the following track “Rockstar” is a play on songs about being a rockstar, I guess, but it’s not funny and annoying. Most of the lyrics on this album, as well as the overall sound, is pretty bland, but it doesn’t get too bad. This album is mostly the kind of bad that I don’t like at all, but it’s easy to ignore. Hell, the album mainly sticks to a country-rock sound that has some decent hooks, but the album leaves a pretty sour taste in my mouth a few times.

Sure, the title track is cringy, and the song “Good Girl Phase” is kind of weird, but they’re not offensively bad. “Psycho” is the main song on here that I’m baffled Hardy wrote, recorded, and put on this album. The song is basically about how Hardy is a terrible partner, and if his girlfriend left him, he lists the crazy things he would do to make her miserable, so she should feel guilty to leave him. Despite the song clearly trying to be a joke, it’s not funny, and it just makes him look bad, like why would anyone want to be with him if he’s going to do that?

A few other songs get close to that, such as “Soul4Sale,” which has Fred Durst sounding the worst he’s ever sounded, and it’s a painfully generic song about selling your soul to be popular or something. A couple songs are actually okay, including the couple songs about his wife, “WHYBMWL,” and “Six Feet Under,” but they’re also super bland, both musically and lyrically, they’re just not outwardly bad. They’re at least more sentimental, and they have more defined hooks and structures, versus being loud and obnoxious.

Loud and obnoxious are the best two descriptors of this album, especially at its worst. Hardy isn’t a very good singer (or lyricist, for that matter), and it shows when he has to do anything that’s out of his limited range, so a lot of these hooks are awful, or very forgettable. Now at its best, it’s generic country-rock, but also very forgettable. Quit has a few of the worst songs of the year, and I still would throw this on a worst of list, but it didn’t piss me off as much as a few other albums did throughout the year. It’s bad, but it’s the kind of bad that you’ll forget about in a day or two, instead of letting it eat you alive as some bad albums can do.

[steelsuit]

Hello, MrRadio 🎶

[projekt-melancholia]

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[blabbershere]

I don't know Japanese but I still like it because I'd basically listen to music in any language.

[faeyuh]

ROSIE APPRECIATION POST BECAUSE SHES MY FAVORITE CANNIBAL AND I WANT HER TO BE MY CARETAKER

also look at how genuinely happy alastor looks in this frame. will never get over them <33

[radio-static666]

artist cred; wandering_nicky || IG

Distorted visions of my demons My reflection has no meaning

I whisper secrets to my mirror, And in the silence, I see you clearer

Chained to this place, stay here with me A silent plea to set you free

You see my shadow in the hallways I've been lost here in this dark haze

- Secrets // Amira Elfeky

[stephreynaart]

“The song is still dumb, but it’s my Dipper’s song”

[kjwaikiki]

Hey guys I need a little help. I have recently heard a song on the radio and I can’t remember what it is called. It is kinda melancholy and has the lyrics “December brought the cruelest wind that I have ever known” and also “what once was a fire burning bright”. I cannot find it anywhere and I would really appreciate any help I could get. Thank you so much!

Edit: I think I found the song. It is December by Marcato! Thanks guys!

[bloominglegumes]

precanon road trip talks maybe or something

[thisaintascenereviews]

Hardy - The Mockingbird & The Crow

There isn't a genre that's as divisive as country music, but I understand why, especially within the last decade. Florida Georgia Line released the single "Cruise" back in 2012/2013, and it took the world by storm, but not in a good way. Well, sort of, because a lot of people loved it, and it's one of the highest selling singles of all time, but it also ushered in a new era of country music, being the "bro-country" era.. Only now is the genre breaking out of that "phase," and a lot of artists have either disappeared completely, or they've pivoted away from that sound and into something better and interesting. My last review, which was on Tyler Hubbard's debut self-titled album, talked a bit about that. While t was a decent album, it was an album that sounded like Florida Georgia Line, albeit less obnoxious and annoying; It was almost like the album was composed of FGL B-sides, or songs were left on the cutting room floor when the duo went their separate ways. I bring this all up because part of the issue with the bro-country movement weren't the artists themselves, it was a lot of the Nashville songwriters trying to capitalize on that. If you didn't know, a lot of pop music, regardless of the style, don't write their own songs, or if they do, they get co-writers. Eric Paslay, Ashley McBryde, Chris Stapleton, Ashley Monroe, and many more very popular artists  have gotten their starts writing for other artists, but one of the biggest songwriters turned artists themselves is Hardy.

Born Michael Hardy, Hardy has been writing songs for the last decade or so, if not longer, and it shouldn't be a shock that he had a hand in writing "Cruise." He's written a lot of songs for artists, such as Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton,  Florida Georgia Line, and many others, but he's finally been making a name for himself as an artist. He has a few albums under his belt before his newest one, those being two volumes of the "Hixtape" series that's meant to be a mixtape for up and coming country artists, or established artists, to feature on songs. They're decent records, but they're very messy and scattershot. In 2020, he released his debut solo album, entitled A Rock, and it's fine. He didn't really get recognized as a solo artist until he released the single "Wait In The Truck," featuring Lainey Wilson, another up and coming artist that does seem to have a good future in the genre. He released a couple more singles, but he finally released his second solo album, The Mockingbird & The Crow, back in January. This album, despite its really bad artwork, is an allusion to the two "sides" of Hardy, those being the "mockingbird" and "the crow." The former half of the album is a straightforward country record, whereas the latter is a hard-rock record. The idea behind this album is very interesting, and I don't know what compelled me to listen to it, but I randomly decided to listen to this record a couple of weeks after it came out, and I'll have you know that I couldn't stop listening to it for a few weeks after that. I really enjoy The Mockingbird & The Crow, although this record has some major issues.

Talking about this album is sort of strange, because there are two albums in one, essentially, so I guess the best way to talk about this album is to break down both halves individually, starting with "the Mockingbird." This is the half of the album that I prefer least, but I have to give Hardy credit for writing some solid mainstream country songs. Every song on the first half are more mid-tempo, such as "Red," "Wait In The Truck," "Drink One For Me," and others, but they're not bad. If anything, it's just kind of generic, but that doesn't always mean something negative. Hardy's got a good voice, at least for this style, and he's got a knack for writing good hooks (although that is kind of a problem in itself, but I'll talk about that later on), and the lyrics on this record are relatively inoffensive, despite being about various country / southern cliches. "Wait In The Truck" is easily the best song on the first half, and it' also the most interesting lyrically (not even on the first half, but on the whole album), because it's a murder ballad that shows Hardy finding a woman on the side of the road that's been physically abused by her boyfriend or husband, and he goes to their house to kill him. That's the story of the song, and honestly, it kind of works. Other songs really lean into cliches that are inoffensive enough, but are still overdone, like the "kids these days are on their phones too much" song "Screen," the "we all bleed red, so we should get along" song (that also features Morgan Wallen, for some reason) "Red," or the album opener, "Beer," which is about beer being personified and sees Hardy reflecting on all the good and bad times he's had with it. The only other song that is slightly more interesting lyrically is "Drink One For Me," that is told from the perspective of a guy who passed away and he's looking down on his friends from the afterlife, ultimately wanting them to enjoy their lives and drink a beer for him.

Lyricism aside, however, the songs themselves on the first half are just generic country songs that don't necessarily offer anything interesting to the table, but if you enjoy that kind of country, you'll enjoy it just fine. I didn't talk about the music itself on that side much, because there isn't much to talk about. It's on the title track where things get interesting, although there is the song "Here Lies Country Music," and that's a strange song that has Hardy complaining about how different country music is now. It's strange because Hardy helped to make country music what it is now, so I don't know why he's complaining about an issue he caused within the genre, but I digress. On the title track, he starts off by talking about how he's just the mockingbird and he sings what people want him to, all the while utilizing another mid-tempo country sound that doesn't do much for me, but the song suddenly switches to a really heavy guitar riff and that's when "the crow" side begins. This is definitely the better part of the album, but I wouldn't say it's anything more unique. Hardy wanted to make a "rock" album that wouldn't be able to played on the radio, although the funny thing is this is the exact type of hard-rock you'd hear on the radio. This is very much in the vein these metalcore bands that cross over to the hard-rock scene, such as Beartooth, A Day To Remember, Wage War, and all of those types of bands. These songs are a lot louder, filled with heavier riffs and breakdowns, along with some screams from Hardy on a few songs. The hooks are still just as good, if not better, since this half of the album has more energy. Songs like "Sold Out," ".30-06," "Truck Bed," and "Radio Song," which features ADTR's Jeremy McKinnon, are some of my favorite songs on the album, even if they're also nothing special. The lyrics are a bit more obnoxious here, such as on songs like "I Ain't In The Country No More," where Hardy marvels at the fact he's in a city, or "Kill Shit Til I Die," which is about him killing animals for food, I guess, and the closing track, "The Redneck Song" feels oddly like a parody, because he just lists stuff off that stereotypical rednecks like.

As you can probably tell from this very long review that I did not intend on being this long, I have mixed feelings on this record. On the one hand, I really enjoy it, and I was playing it a lot for a couple of weeks after I heard it, because it has some really good hooks, and it doesn't feel its length. With both halves, the album is about an hour exactly, but I tended to just play a few songs on the mockingbird half, and then just play the crow half. The whole record is fine, but it's when you try to look deeper into it that the problems of this record rear their ugly heads. The lyrics aren't very good, especially on the second half (which is funny, because I like that half better, but the lyrics are worse), and even when they aren't bad, they're bland and not that interesting. The hooks are great, although every song on this record feels like it was written around its hook, versus having any time to breathe and grow. That's my biggest issue with this record, and one of my biggest issues with Hardy as a whole, he just seems to write the hook of a song first and then writes the rest of the song around it. This album will do nothing to change the minds of people that hate modern country music, because to be fair, this album is riddled the same problems that Hardy is trying to speak out against. He had a hand in writing a lot of the songs and albums that made country music so bad for a long time, and he's doing it here, especially on the first half, so why didn't just make a rock album? If he doesn't like making that kind of country music anymore, just make rock, or country-rock, so him writing songs of what he goes onto criticize doesn't make much sense to me, but as it stands, this album is good. I enjoy it a lot personally, but don't look too deep into it. Every time I think about this album, I don't like it, but if I "turn my brain off" and enjoy the songs for what they are, I really get into it.