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Blogocentric Formulations
Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).
Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:
 "The Soundtrackers Group" 
"Blogging Circle of Friends "
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"
"JAFBG"
"Take up Your Cross"
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February 9, 2024 at 12:46pm February 9, 2024 at 12:46pm
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"Invalid Item" | Day 6
"Pretty Girl" by Ice Spice (feat. Rema)
I had never heard of Ice Spice before she featured on a Taylor Swift song ("Karma" off her most recent new album, Midnights). Ice Spice was then the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live where Taylor Swift did a surprise introduction, which my wife wanted to watch, and this was the song that she ended up introducing. I immediately fell in love with the soulful, Caribbean-type beats of this track, and Rema's voice is a perfect complement to Ice Spice's rapping. I've listened to a few other Ice Spice songs since and I can't say that I'm a huge fan of her as an individual artist, but something about this song really clicks.
Looking at my tentative playlist for this year, there's actually very few hip-hop artists and rappers this year. I usually have at least a couple, but this might be the only one... unless I suddenly call an audible and change my mind in the middle of the activity (which has been known to happen).
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February 9, 2024 at 12:33pm February 9, 2024 at 12:33pm
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"Invalid Item" | Day 5
"Missing You" by Chase Wright
This is the other country song that I probably listened to the most over the past year. Like "Love You A Little Bit" , it just has a certain energy to it that I found really easy to listen to on repeat for long periods of time. One of the things I'm learning about myself as a consumer of music is that I tend to look for songs that - regardless of genre - hit a certain emotion I'm looking for (energetic, melancholy, soulful, etc.) and then when I'm in the mood for that kind of emotion I'll just play the heck out of a small number of songs on repeat while I'm in that mood. That's probably why I have such an eclectic playlist every year, but where some songs are played literally dozens and sometimes hundreds of times over the course of several months.
I'm also realizing that I tend to gravitate toward country songs with a lot of pop and rock influences. I'm not so big on the more traditional country subgenres like bluegrass or folk or honky-tonk. There's definitely the occasional song or two that I like from those genres but, as mentioned above, it's rare that one of those songs hits the exact right emotion I'm looking for... at least not in a more satisfying way than some songs in other genres, so I tend not to listen to classic country too much. Music like this, though, and Tanner Adell and some others, I'm definitely into.
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February 9, 2024 at 12:10pm February 9, 2024 at 12:10pm
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"Invalid Item" | Day 4
"Love You A Little Bit" by Tanner Adell
I'm really bummed that the only video I can find for the original version of this song is a fan-made video compilation of the artist's social media posts. She has a couple of good acoustic versions of this song on her own YouTube channel, but not even a lyric video or audio for the original. 
I found this song during an extended country music phase this past year (which you'll see more of later in this activity), and it's probably one of the country songs I ended up listening to the most in 2023. It has the perfect blend of energy, catchy lyrics, and catchy beat; I found it really easy to just let it play on repeat while I was driving around town or trying to get some work done.
One of the cool things I noticed in listening to Tanner and doing a bit of research is that there's apparently a big push for "black girl" country artists now. Country artists are overwhelmingly white and male for the most part, and while women have made huge strides in the genre in recent years, they're almost exclusively white as well. There's a massive appetite for diversity in country music artists, and I hope it happens because one of the reasons that I'm not a huge country fan normally is because I find so much of it homogenous. Some new perspectives would be a great way to refresh the genre and attract new fans.
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February 9, 2024 at 12:23am February 9, 2024 at 12:23am
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"Invalid Item" | Day 3
"Before You" by David J
This song reminds me of my trip to Nashville several years ago. My wife and I had never been and we went on a whim, to visit some relatives who had recently moved there. We were amazed at just how many music venues there were (some places downtown literally had buildings with multiple floors that had a different bar (and stage to perform on) on every level. We spent several days just wandering in and out of different bars listening to the people who were performing. And while we had planned on seeing some very specific performers, we were even more pleasantly surprised to discover local artists we'd never heard of before.
David J kind of reminds me of those artists. His stage name is totally generic, and he looks like a college frat bro... but he happens to have a decent voice and he wrote a catchy song. I initially found this song on Spotify through the "Discover Weekly" playlist that recommends new songs every week based on your listening habits, but this is totally the kind of song I could imagine stumbling upon in some random bar in Nashville and suddenly becoming a fan.
At the very least, it definitely makes me want to visit Nashville again and discover some new music.
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February 9, 2024 at 12:09am February 9, 2024 at 12:09am
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"Invalid Item" | Day 2
"One I Wanna Be With" by Trella
I first heard this song on the finale of the latest season of Selling the OC, the spinoff series from Selling Sunset. If you're not familiar with the show, congratulations on successfully avoiding yet another drama-filled reality television juggernaut. It's a show about a real estate brokerage (the original "Sunset" refers to the original Los Angeles location on the Sunset Strip, and the "OC" spinoff refers to the office they subsequently opened near Newport Beach) that hires insanely hot listing agents (mostly women) and shows both their personal and professional lives. My wife and I love the show, mostly because catty people's interpersonal drama on reality shows is her guilty pleasure, and I love the architecture porn that comes with them touring listings of exclusive multimillion-dollar properties. It's got a little something for everybody. 
And you can say what you want about the quality of Netflix's reality television content, but their music supervisor is worth every penny they're getting paid. The song selection for all of their reality programs (and especially these ones) is phenomenal. There are genuinely great songs like this one, and a fair amount of needle drops that mirror the sentiments/feelings of the personalities in the show perfectly.
I don't actually know much about this artist other than what's on her website... which is that her real name is Lindsey Sweat, she grew up doing worship music in a church context, and moved to Nashville where she discovered the indie-pop genre and invented "Trella" as her new indie-pop project. I haven't heard many of her other songs at this point, but I'm definitely interested based on how much I like this one.
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