Song: My Princess Gone
Artist: Jah Mason
Country: Jamaica
Genre: Reggae
Mood: Raw reggae vocals ride bashy reggae beat.
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Song: My Princess Gone
Artist: Jah Mason
Country: Jamaica
Genre: Reggae
Mood: Raw reggae vocals ride bashy reggae beat.
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Song: Nicest Thing
Artist: Kate Nash
Country: Ireland
Genre: Alternative
Mood: Melancholia…soft, sweet, wistful. Her voice feels like a raw, talking heart.
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Song: Primo
Artist: Corvino Traxx
Country: Italy
Genre: World Jazz/Dance
Mood: Techo-esque jazzy dance groove w/ supremely stirring guitar strumming.
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Remember how, in high school, when you thought you were the only girl in the world for some undercover asshole, he’d do something assholey that would dent your developing ego and piss you the hell off?
What did you do about it?
Some girls ranted & raged. Others curled up & cried. And then there were the ones who grabbed the nearest object & hurled it right at assholey’s head (or other parts).
Well, that was me.
Except I always grabbed words & regurgitated them all over assholey’s psyche.
I became high-school famous for this.
As one of the popular girls (social stratification in high school is unavoidable 🙄 ) it wasn’t expected that I’d put embarrassing feelings right out in the open like that. But I did. And doing so encouraged other girls in school to do it, too.
We victims of assholey-ness started a writing club, and anytime boyfriends assholey-ed us, we’d commandeer the gym or outdoor field in the middle of sports practice, and regurgitate our stories, poems, song lyrics, etc. all over the jock’s psyches. Continue reading
Song: Until We Bleed
Artist: Lykke Li
Country: Sweden
Genre: World
Mood: Techno-esque….jazzy…sort of unearthly. Prepare to lay back & dream, or rise up & groove.
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Song: Unomathemba
Artist: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Country: Africa
Genre: World Music
Mood: Earthy…soothing….beautifully ethereal acappella groove.
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Song: El Pantalon
Artist: Eliel Lind
Country: Puerto Rico
Genre: Reggaeton
Mood: Latin funk…thick, rich, irresistible.
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Song: Quan je voy le duc (the title is different on YouTube, but this is the song – couldn’t find it anywhere else!)
Artist: Chanterai: Music of Medieval France
Country: France
Genre: Medieval/Classical
Mood: Les dames in swirling dresses…les gents in colorful hose…le Roi et la Reine presiding over a night of dancing at the French court.
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Song: Blind to You
Artist: Collie Buddz
Country: Bermuda
Genre: Reggae
Mood: Rhythm sucking you up in it…everything rolling…smoooooth.
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