I was at this bar on what happened to be karaoke night when one of the singers, who had also worked as a DJ in her day, asked me if I was going to sing. I said no, I’m not a singer. She replied, “Well, why not, you look like a singer.” After that, she actually argued with me for a bit! I know I’m being rude, but what in the Disney princess fuck? No way was she a good DJ if she did not have an understanding of the difference between audio and visual. That was one of the...
Last time I wrote, Lil Nas X and I talked about the crowd’s seemingly perpetual need to weigh the world according to its particular view. The point was that different is not necessarily synonymous with wrong or bad. He hears, “I like this, I don’t like that, do this here, don’t do that” in relation to his music production. My life path includes discovering that I soaked up the crowd’s words so deeply that it has been an effort to even have any clarity for what I like and don’t like. Strangely, from this, I developed an ability to fit...
Who remembers “Signs” from 1971, Five Man Electrical Band? I think it’s been covered quite a few times in the last 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeT5otk2R1g Last month a popular youngling, Lil Nas X, dropped something so similar in “One of Me,” it brought that last one to my mind. Not musically similar, some will love one and hate the other and vice versa, but thematically similar. I linked to the “clean” version because learning to value the idea that it’s not only ok for everyone to have different tastes, it is vital to our ability to live authentic lives. It is...
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