Remember When We Broke Up...The First Time!

I am struggling with what song to write about this week. Every other week there has been one song that has been stuck in my head and I have been loving, but this week there is nothing. I haven’t really listened to a lot of music, and there hasn’t been a song that has inspired me to write about it at all. I guess that I should have known that this would happen at some point, but I hoped that with the amount of music that I have on iPod it wouldn’t have to happen at all!

At the moment, I am sitting at work, I know I shouldn’t be writing a blog at work but it’s slow and I am trying very hard to stay awake, and I am listening to CHUM FM. This really makes it difficult to pick a good song to write about because all I hear are the pop songs that I just don’t like. Most of the time I am able to allow the music fade into the background and ignore it, but there are times when it drives me crazy. One of the “this station is driving me crazy” moments happened frequently about a month ago. This was when CHUM would play Someone That I Use to Know, We Are Young, You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful, And I’m Glad You Came about three times each every day. Every time one of those songs came on the radio all I wanted to do was bang my head against the wall. It drives me crazy how often CHUM, and other stations I’m sure, play the same songs. I really would like some variation, especially since I listen to the station every day between 8-4.  

I will admit the music isn’t all bad all the time, sometimes they play an older song, like the Michael Jackson song that is playing right now, or a song that is a guilty pleasure. As strange as this might sound I really enjoy it when they play Taylor Swift on the radio. I have a sort of soft spot for Taylor’s music and have really been loving her new song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which is just a lot of fun! Taylor Swift seems to have two types of songs one being sentimental songs that make you go “awww”, and two: something awesome and fun that makes you go “YHEA!” or maybe that is just me.

Anyway, I think that for this week I will leave you with Taylor Swift’s We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. The video is actually pretty fun, it was shot in one take and Taylor changes outfit about 6 times which amazes me, and if costume changes aren’t your thing then the woodland animal band should amuse you.

 

The Symbol For And (&)

“And sometimes in the staff room I catch your eye with “why’d it have to end?” But I know from how you worry at your wedding band that I’m just your little “&.” At the last conjunction, after every other “and,” I was just your little “&.””

When it comes to lyricists John K. Samson is by far one of the best. There are times when I am listening to his songs and I start to think about the words that he is singing and am blow away. JKS, as my family like to refer to him as, writes about life. Now, I know what you are thinking, isn’t that what everyone writes about? Yes, but JKS can write about simple everyday things and make them sound heartbreaking, and he is able to write about more complex issues in such a way that make you understand. The words that he uses paint beautiful pictures about life that I’ve never heard from any other artist, he truly is unique.

In the end it is hard to explain how amazing a John K. Samson’s lyrics are without sitting everyone of down to listen to some of his songs, or to read is book titled Lyrics and Poems. Alright, this isn’t lyrics of the week so let’s talk about the music. In the song that I have chosen for this week’s offering, The Last And, JKS displays his ability to write beautiful music to display the words that he has penned.  The Last And projects the feeling of sadness that the lyrics are trying to convey. I love the way that JKS is able to weave the two elements in such a way that create a perfect harmonious story.

I think that The Last And is probably one of the best songs to demonstrate what I am trying to say about John K. Samson’s writing. It is one of my favourite songs off of his solo album and some of all-time favourite lyrics. If you haven’t even listened to JKS number one, you should, and number two, check out either his solo album, Provincial, or any of the albums that he has done with his band The Weakerthans.

 

P.S. I don't get the cups of coffee/tea in the video either it was just what I could find.