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Choosin' TexasElla Langley This one is blasting all week in honor of blue Texas 🤠
StepVampire Weekend “We saw the stars when they hid from the world You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl” I imagine this as a couple and they're looking at the stars together one random night. It's an intimate image. Two people sharing a moment, looking at something much bigger than themselves. But are the stars looking back? There is an asymmetry between the stars and the sun. The stars hide from the world. They don't look back. They're distant, indifferent, perhaps even oblivious to the existence of humanity. The sun, however, is different. It appears. It illuminates everything. It interrupts the darkness in which the couple were sharing their moment. And suddenly, the man curses it. There's an almost funny human quality to this: cursing the sun for doing exactly what the sun is supposed to do. Maybe the narrator spends the entire song confusing preservation with love. He wants to protect his girl. He wants to protect his memories. But eventually he recognizes: “The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her” Perhaps the same applies to the memory itself. It doesn't need to be resurrected. It doesn't need to be protected from the sunrise. It doesn't need to remain unchanged to justify the love he feels for it. Love, as the sun, cannot be stopped. So the night happened. They saw the stars. The sun eventually rose. And that's enough. Maybe growing older is learning that something doesn't have to last forever to have been worth experiencing.
I'll Try Anything Once ("You Only Live Once" demo) - Heart In a Cage B-SideThe Strokes At first I tried to find logic behind the literal meaning of this song. What are those 10 decisions? What are those 7 ways? I think those questions are the answer, actually. There is no right way to live life, no blueprint.
Basketball ShoesBlack Country, New Road I am the convo, you are the weather Such a nice thing to say about someone. When you make small talk you generally use subjects that are natural to you, something you always have on the top of your mind. The weather, for example.
TaxesGeese The kids are going to be all right. This was my third year at Austin City Limits, and I almost didn’t see Geese. I was choosing between them and another artist whose name I can’t even remember. I knew maybe two Geese songs, but a friend encouraged me to give them a chance. When I looked them up, I realized they were a bunch of kids in their early twenties. My first thought was, what could they possibly teach me? At that age, you think you know everything. Now, at the end of my twenties, I’m beginning to realize how little I actually know. I listened to Getting Killed more closely and discovered a band with a lot to say about life, identity, and the search for meaning. Seeing them live made me appreciate it even more. There was something beautiful about watching so many young people genuinely connect with music that isn’t necessarily easy to digest. The highlight was during “Taxes.” Around 30 or 40 people spontaneously knelt down, leaving two guys in the middle. One carried the other on his shoulders, while the guy on top stretched his arms out like he was being crucified. As Cameron sang “you’re gonna have to nail me down,” the beat dropped, everyone stood up, and they all started dancing. It was ridiculous, breathtaking, and completely genuine. Nobody had to organize anything. They just understood the moment and shared it. Watching them felt like seeing a ghost of my younger self. I recognized that same search for meaning, identity, and belonging. It also made me think about how every generation eventually believes the next one is missing something. We had our bands and our music, and it’s easy to assume nothing will ever compare. But maybe we’re just not looking anymore. Geese reminded me that those experiences are still out there. They just look and sound different now. The kids are going to be all right.