#insanely difficult but im going to put my head down and do it 🥹🫶

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I applied to a prestigious law program/scholarship and I need your positive energy, prayers, vibes, manifestation all of it

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Okay so! I went and listened to all the songs because I’m a whore for new music, especially good ones. I’m actually the anon who asked ㅠㅠ This is a personal side blog of mine, and when I was sending in the ask I couldn’t swap to this account so I was like “fuck okay anon it is”, I hope that’s okay! My main is for writing/ fandom only, and I don’t want a bunch of random internet people from over there following me here lol, sorry about that.

Anyway the point of all this yapping before I get into my actual thoughts about the songs is a roundabout way of saying, we’re mutuals! Yay! At least to me we are, bc I’m following you back (idk if it picks up on your side cuz likes and follows are coming from my main, but whatever 🤡). I info-dump this because you’ve been around for like, forever? And I’ve somehow still never interacted with you? Which feels like a crime 🤡 So I’m reaching out now bc I really like your blog and wanna be proper moots 🥹🫶🏻

✨ anyway! ✨

MUSIC. 👏 SONGS. 👏 THOUGHTS. 👏

Dust Flesh and Bones

I don’t listen to a ton of super long music because I do tend to get bored, but this song drew me in so entirely it was hard to move on from it.

As a Writer™️, this song brings words and images to brain that make it incredibly difficult not to want to sit down and write something to it ���

Describing the song as an “apocalyptic sadness” truly takes the words out of my mouth—the music video, the album art, the dusty-sounding guitar, in what I can only imagine is a minor chord(?)… It makes me think of a movie opening: something western, probably, with a man laying in a creaky, uncomfortable block-of-a-bed with his cowboy hat covering his eyes, an overhead-camera circling around like a barely-working ceiling. You can just see the dust motes in the air, smell the alcohol on his breath… it’s grimy as shit, and I love it.

That’s the vibe of this song. To me, anyway. I love it. Perfect opener to a whole list of banger songs. Also, I like the idea of reading the title as “dust-flesh”, as in flesh that is dust-like in quality (because there’s no comma, to me it feels like it’s supposed to be one concept, which I think fits the overall vibe of the song as well).

Love Love Love

As someone who does things for love (love, love), this song is beyond perfect. I will take the time now to compliment how on-the-nail your recs are, by the way, because wtf? How are these songs all so perfectly attuned to the ask 😭 That is an insane archive to have and I commend you for it 🫡

I really like that this another guitar-heavy song. It feels personal because there’s just The Mountain Goats’ voice, the strumming of the guitar, and later into the song, those weird twinkling noises idk how to describe (forgive 💔).

This is a ‘sprawled out on your bed, staring at the ceiling at 3:34 a.m’ kinda music, and I that.

The Mechanic

This is the kind of music that changes you, so I completely understand how this made you reconsider your relationship (I hope things went well in that regard, by the way!). I love singer-songwriter (if that isn’t the genre pls smack me on the head) exactly for this kind of sound, this kind of music.

It’s so incredibly personal, especially to the artists themselves, but it still reaches deep for other people. This song is straight poetry, dude.

It’s conversation in the form of poetry, with its own little accompaniment. And that is precious in a way I find hard to put into words 🥹

The music video for this is just as precious as the song itself, btw, give it a watch if you haven’t already.

Because im bad at words when i most need them, im going to drop my favorite lines down below and you can interpret why they’re my favorite by yourself lmfao.

Basically the whole first verse. (Everything before the line below)

“Like a dog that keeps whining but you love how it sounds so you let it go hungry to hear it”

“Your shirts are all stained with the blood dripping out / and the problem gets harder to hide”

“I know you weren’t broken / I just needed something to fix”

“Like a house that’s on fire but you love how it feels so you throw in the memories to feed it”

The Goodbye Song

I LOVE MUSICALS. I KILL FOR MUSICALS. I AM MUSICALS.

*cough cough* anyway~

The live recording of this is going to be my explanation for why I love musicals and musical theatre adjacent music—do you see the fucking emotion in this man’s face. DO YOU SEE THE TEARS IN HIS FUCKING EYES.

Also, the description says George Salazar worked on tick, tick… BOOM!, which quite literally changed my life (I’m not even speaking hyperbole, I hyper fixated on that fucking movie and soundtrack so hard it was all I watched/listened to for several weeks), so thank you for indirectly bringing this to my attention.

I love his voice, I love the instrumental, I love the emotion. The lyrics are fucking amazing, they hit you right in the gut, which I’m sure was their intended purpose dksnjfisin.

I don’t know if there’s any kind of lOrE behind the lyrics, but it’s giving ‘parental figure/ guardian speaking to their child as they’re ascending to heaven/ whatever form of heaven you believe in, if any’, which, uhm ouch?? My heart? Hello? /pos

The whole latter half of this song feels like a hand ripping into your chest to personally tug on your heartstrings, which is a phenomenal feeling.

In short, thank you so much for your recommendations ㅠㅠ I actually really enjoyed listening to everything and thinking about how much I love them lmsnfisjs

I hope this is also a semi-normal(?) way of trying to befriend you lmfao if it’s not that’s my bad, I tried my best </3

Much love,

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hiya! you have any somber, kind of melancholic song recs? hope you’re having a good timezone <3

AAAH- DON'T I HAVE SOME! I really love melancholic songs and how they take me to other worlds.

First of all: Matt Elliott. Man, I can ramble about this man for hours. His music inspires me so much. I personally love his songs about failed relationships and fading dreams more but this album has an apocalyptic sadness that makes me shiver. If you don't get easily bored from long songs, try giving him a try.

Let's continue with a the Mountain Goats' song. One of his most popular song 'Love Love Love' is definitely worth listening to if you haven't yet. It makes you sigh deeply with every note.

HAVE I MADE A POST ABOUT THIS MAN BEFORE?? Because Amigo is one of my idols, man... His voice feels so familiar, touches my soul like a long lost brother. His first album hooked me immediately but his latest was definitely the best one. This song actually made me reconsider my relationship with a loved one:

Last one I promise- the theater kid in me is a really big fan of George Salazar and his album with Joe Iconis. The Goodbye Song is one of the best songs in the album with how expressive George is with all the lyrics. Give it a listen, I cried like twenty times to this song

Sorry if I rambled too much, I hope you find something you like here! Have a nice day- A NICE WEEK- A NICE FUCKING YEAR <3