Category: Music

If this song isn’t a rainy day cup of tea curled up with a book, I am not sure what it is. Maybe it’s a warm bath with some candles. Both, I think.

Billie weaves a beautiful tapestry of words and sound.

“Watch me as I go and separate, the ones that I am made to love and hate, and slowly counting down my body weight, I’m tired, watch me as I go and separate, the ones that I am made to love and hate, and slowly counting down by body weight, I’m tired, I’m tired, and the stars, they look like little mice, to me, I am my only vice”

Take it slow today. Move to the beat of this song. Observe, don’t absorb.

BGDG.

We’ve reached a turning point in THE BLOG.

If you recall way back when when I started this project, see link below this paragraph, I said the Top 100 was in the order that I loved them, or they resonated with me, etc. From here on out, it’s pure discovery and I’ll do my best to curate a fun journey for us the rest of the way!

How about that eclipse huh?! (I haven’t seen it yet. HA!)

I think this is a fitting song to kick off this part of The Project. No more rankings. It’s all fun and games and finding new stuff to listen to! If there was ever a song that personified the dap you get from your friend when you get to a party, it’s probably this.

So take a few minutes to bop to this song and just let loose.

BGDG

This song goes hard. Steady. Lola’s voice definitely has a bit of that longing in it. Great performance overall here. Loving that bass line too.

“I think that I love you but it’s hard, just to be around you, you said, “I’m gonna be a big star”, don’t lie to my face, it’s cool if you don’ wanna hang ‘n’ get loose, but my mom wants me back at like 20 to two, and babe, I think that I love you but it’s hard, just to be around you, don’t hate me but you’re not, don’t hate me, but you’re not what I thought you was”

Definitely gives me some late-90s vibes, right? Just a short 2:42 to keep the blood moving today!

Kick some butt today you! BGDG.

In my opinion, there aren’t enough good six-minute Hip-Hop songs anymore. Kendrick Lamar to the rescue.

The highlight of this song, is the switch-up of styles halfway through. First part goes hard enough, but then suddenly we’re transported back to Dr. Dre’s NWA-era Compton and it is incredible.

Kendrick and J. Cole are the guys keeping it as authentic as it was back in the day I feel, but I’ve read they have beef? Not good!

I’m writing this from the past, so I don’t know how much snow we got, but, maybe this is a good song to shovel to today? HAHA!

BGDG!

What a mashup of genre here! I feel like the album cover is kind of telling here!

The lines of genre are just diffusing and it’s just….the Sound. I love it. I wish this song was twice as long as it’s 2:45, but something about the brightest stars burn out the quickest, I guess?

This song feels…earnest to me.

“At times, I really didn’t show, what was wrong with me, wrong with me, I told myself I cannot grow, without lovin’ me, lovin’ me, But this is just the hell that lives inside, hmm, tell me now, where to?, please be my guide”

Blends so sweetly into Phoebe’s part:

“I’ve been goin’, goin’ in circles, reoccurring dreams, talkin’ in my sleep, then I’m floatin’ up to the surface, I can finally breathe, I could do anything, and I don’t know why it’s alright, and it’s not at the same time, then I look up at a blue sky, and I know”

I hope this song helps you a little like it did me! BGDG

Holly is right up there with Olivia Rodrigo when it comes to conveying relational tumult. We’re not really in high school anymore with this one though.

I can’t quite nail down if this song is literally talking about three roommates, a remote and their significant other where she has a crush on the roommate, or somehow using it all as a metaphor for a love triangle. Maybe somehow all three? You decide!

“I heard you talking ’til the morning, heavy whispers from the next room, you say it’s never your intention, and I’m just in a bad mood, there was a possible connection, on the table for a second, then she made such an entrance, can’t stand all this tension, can you?, then we crossed paths by the bathroom, but I’d just rather be out of the picture, and I’ll do my utmost to talk to you, but I just wanna be out, I just wanna be out of the picture”

Whatever she’s singing about, she does so like a lonely songbird. I’m here for it, and much more of her catalog. Stay tuned!

BGDG

I absolutely adored Rodrigo’s first album Sour. She is so incredibly adept at synthesizing late-teenage relationship angst in musical form. It’s a pure distillation of it honestly.

The chorus slaps in this song, as the kids say, so here it is!

“I want to get him back, I want to make him really jealous, wanna make him feel bad, oh, I wanna get him back, ’cause then again, I really miss him, and it makes me real sad, oh, I want sweet revenge and I want him again, I want to get to him back, back, back”

Just a romp from start to finish. The standout verse? part? whatever. Half of these songs don’t even follow that kind of logic. Verse just sounds way better than part or section. Anyway, we’re back and it’s this one:

“I wanna key his car, I wanna make him lunch, I wanna break his heart, then be the one to stitch it up, wanna kiss his face, with an uppercut, I wanna meet his mom, just to tell her her son sucks”

Great punky vibe to this song. It’s a bop. (The kids also say that I hear)

BGDG! Love ya!

A pair of solid remixes in a row for ya! Billie has such a gorgeously venomous voice and it’s on full display in the remix. Love that they turn this one on its head a little bit!

“My, my boy’s being sus, and he don’t know how to cuss, he just sounds like he’s tryna be his father, my boy’s an ugly crier but he’s such a pretty liar, and by that I mean, he said he’d change, my boy, my boy, my boy, don’t love me like he promised, my boy, my boy, my boy, he ain’t a man sure as hell ain’t honest”

A scathing review if nothing else. Shake your hips to this one today!

Thanks for reading! BGDG

Swapping back to some good old acoustic guitar for this one! It’s actually the song that inspired my “Learn to Play Guitar” playlist. Such a pretty duet. We’ve heard Jill on the blog before, but this is the first time Mr. Hecht has been with us!

“When I wish upon a star, I don’t wish for anything, but I wonder where you are, and I wonder where you’ve been, when I wish upon a star, I don’t wish for anything, if I tried to reach that far, memories are all I’d see, you sitting with a mason jar, at the kitchen table coloring, when I wish upon a star, I don’t wish for anything”

Hecht pairs perfectly with Andrews in this one as their melodies seamlessly intertwine throughout.

Just enjoy the beauty of this song!

That’s today’s intention. Go out and actively search for beauty in the little things!

BGDG

Unsure why the Remix get’s the umlaut and not the band name, but it’s not my bailiwick. There’s your ten-dollar word of the day. Maybe two of ’em if you count umlaut.

“We’re only young and naive still, we require certain skills, the mood it changes like the wind, hard to control when it begins, the bittersweet between my teeth, trying to find the in-betweens, fall back in love eventually, yeah yeah yeah yeah, can’t help myself but count the flaws, claw my way out through these walls, one temporary escape, feel it start to permeate, we lie beanthe the stars at night, our hands gripping each other tight, you keep my secrets hope to die, promises, swear them to the sky”

A remix of a song isn’t some crazy invention, but there’s something about this version that I felt really did justice to the original song, and explored some other parts of it. I am beginning to think I’m a sucker for synth pop. Born in ’81, so I guess it was ordained!

Enjoy this one today, and maybe start that book you’ve been meaning to read. Be good, do good.