Oh hai, Angie! Long time no see!
Listen, let’s get this out of the way now. You’re going to hear a lot of Angie this year if you follow this blog! A trek awaits!
I’m currently doing a full listen-through of Childish Gambino’s CAMP as I write this entry and I find myself LEGIT EXCITED to dive into this song over and over. That’s the type of feeling we all need to pay attention to when we feel it, right?! That lightning in a bottle type feeling of anticipation. Is this a weird way to describe music? :D I’d like to say I’m overdoing it, but yooooooo, this sooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg…………
The melody that she creates over the first three lines of this song is some of the most beautifully descriptive prose mixed with equally beautiful music.
In the armchair over there, I can see a face in the upholstery, I can get anxiety from an inanimate object, an inanimate object, and inanimate object…
From there you’re transported to sitting next to your crush at some college house party.
…and my backbone could have grown, but I think it’s turned to softness, I think it is a problem, like food that’s going rotten, and you might say its ok to eat it, and then it makes you vomit, I really hate to vomit, except the one time I drank too much fireball whiskey, ’cause I wanted you to kiss me, so I threw it up, washed my mouth, and sat back on the couch with you…
Punch. Me. In. The. Gut.
The part of this song that so perfectly synthesizes that angst that comes with that college crush from that house party is that deep resonate guitar riff throughout? It somehow is the sound your brain makes when you’re just yearning for someone to SEE you! Juxtapose that with that rich and honestly angelic voice of Angie’s…her music just drips authentic longing here. It’s palpable.
What’s fascinating to me, and most exciting for me during this upcoming year of amateur music blogging, is how intimately related these rankings overall are to the types of things I’ve been going through over these ninety-thousand (90,00) minutes of listening I’ve done this year.
I’m not sure there’s a more intimate way to experience someone else’s life. It’s one of the most exciting parts of this ideas for me!
Please don’t take this as me professing that I know anything more about music than any of you who didn’t have a life soundtrack that would play for two months straight. I’m just sharing my journey because I find it interesting to talk about this, and if I do, chances are someone else does too!
I wish Spotify would provide us with graphical information about our entire listening history. Can you imagine how PROFOUNDLY interesting that would be?! #spotifyreleasethedata
It says something about these songs that ranked in the top end of this list though, right? In all the time I spent with music this past year, these songs HIT the hardest.
There are mysteries of my psyche to be unearthed and explored through so many lines of lyrics! Such rich data for the psychologists out there!
Thank you for reading. Enjoy. Let me know what you think of the song!
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