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”
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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: 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”
Songs to Get Us Through
I had every intention of taking an extended pause on this blog. I haven’t been feeling 100% “100,” as it were, and I felt like it was showing. I only want to put out there what will uplift, inspire and invoke meaningful thought, all through my thoughts on music. We all know what’s going onContinue reading “Songs to Get Us Through”
Feature Friday: Wings of Love – LIV
Never heard of LIV? No surprise there. They were a quick project composed of Lykke Li, Miike Snow and Peter Bjorn & John. They only made four songs together over the span of a few years starting in 2016, but each of those songs is something special. The most memorable is “Wings of Love,” which soundsContinue reading “Feature Friday: Wings of Love – LIV”
That Time I met…
Robyn I can’t overstate the importance of Robyn in my musical life. She gave me some much needed relief in the wake of Amy Winehouse’s death and helped me to process so many times– good and bad- throughout my 20’s. And that’s what I told her when I met her. Here’s how it happened… My RobynContinue reading “That Time I met…”
Feature Friday: Eh, Eh – Lady Gaga
Call it a throwback. Call it a reach for obscurity. This “deep cut,” as it were, reeks of the earliest stages of Lady Gaga, who had just barely stopped going by “Stefani” at this point in her career. It’s easy to forget how many good tracks came out of Lady Gaga’s debut album “The Fame,”Continue reading “Feature Friday: Eh, Eh – Lady Gaga”
I'm Just Gonna Dance All Night 