This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Breakup songs are as old as music. It’s a triumph to create anything original, letContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Wake Up Alone”
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Revisiting Back to Black: Tears Dry on Their Own
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Toe-tapping and knee-slapping, this song makes you dance and sing along while lamenting your ownContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Tears Dry on Their Own”
Revisiting Back to Black: Love is a Losing Game
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Love is a Losing Game is not the shortest song on Back to Black, butContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Love is a Losing Game”
Homosational: Not Your Mom’s Pride Playlist
I love sharing music and telling long stories, which is why this blog exists. A huge source of joy for me each year is curating a Pride playlist. I typically start building in March for it to be ready by June. This year, I published it in May, giving a little extra time to digContinue reading “Homosational: Not Your Mom’s Pride Playlist”
Revisiting Back to Black: Just Friends
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album. One of very few mid-to-upper tempo songs on Back to Black comes with a pauseContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Just Friends”
Revisiting Back to Black: Me & Mr. Jones
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album A girl of the past, Amy played with the concept of a more seasoned songContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Me & Mr. Jones”
Revisiting Back to Black: You Know I’m No Good
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Amy left nothing out of her autobiographical second album. She didn’t fantasize too heavily, orContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: You Know I’m No Good”
Revisiting Back to Black: Back to Black
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Banging piano keys don’t typically make for a song anybody would consider “hard,” but thisContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Back to Black”
Revisiting Back to Black: Rehab
This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who died 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Career making and earth shattering, this “song of the summer” lives in each of us ‘rentContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Rehab”
2020 in Music
This written piece is accompanied by my year end playlist “2020 Triumphant” available on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0VLfiJz3w9dBPlzt4iGKqO Music did not take a break in 2020. From big-name collabs that would’ve been recorded at separate studios even without a pandemic, to slow-burners that were obviously recorded from home by artists losing sanity just as quickly as the rest of us,Continue reading “2020 in Music”
I'm Just Gonna Dance All Night 