Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
Sara Bareilles- I just like this lady. She writes perfect sounding pop (standard structured pop music along with her strong vocals) and it's catchy and stuck in my head.
Today's song is from her hit 2007 album, LITTLE VOICE. It's the eighth track and the song is called "Love On The Rocks"
The song is about a troubled relationship- it may be the only song ever written about a troubled relationship (Lolololol, I'm totally joking, there are lots of songs about troubled relationships you guys!)
Here's a good picture I found on the inter-webs:
"On the Rocks" in its figurative sense means putting ice in an alcoholic beverage. Is the relationship like this drink? Fun, exciting, and somewhat dangerous? Could be....
Or check this one out!
Here's a couple on a cliff. Will they literally survive? Who knows.
Whatever happens, the relationship is likely doomed.
"You + Me is Bad News"
Here's the song. The opening riff was the part playing in my head. The wonky guitar combined with piano is pretty neat indeed:
Weigh in your thoughts on this one if you're bored enough.
Few artists have grown on me quite like Sara Bareilles. As a music lover, I suppose the temptation is to write off artists who have had mainstream success. My guess is that we who've invested so much into music don't want to share something we love with those who don't understand it, or appreciate it the way we do- if that makes sense? Sara Bareilles is an artist in the true sense though. She writes some great songs, her voice is powerful and strong, her melodies are catchy and she plays some wickedly good piano.
What's not to like then? Why do I feel like I have to explain what I like about her?
There are music snobs and music lovers. I would hope I am the latter.
Today's song is a great song. It's called "Lie to Me" and it's from Bareilles' 2012 EP "Once Upon Another Time." This song is sexy. The end. Listen to the part where the stings come in. Isn't that fantastic? Also, I dig the slow, steady drumming on this track. The lyrics are relatable- being in a relationship where you don't want to hear the truth about what your partner has to say, for fear that it will hurt. Wanting him/her while at the same time despising her/him for using you. Much darker than some of Bareilles' other songs, and man I love it.
I'm at sort of a stand still with this site (and I hate the word 'blog') It's been a labor of love for the last 3 years or so. I've sort of started to feel trapped. I love to share music and I think this is a good way to do it, but I also know people like to be entertained.
Lately I've been tempted to make it be about my day-to-day life: this week I did this, or that, or whatever. But that seems overly-indulgent, when having one's own blog is already totally pretentious.
Well, I don't have it in me to entertain, so here's an update on my life.
WE SOLD OUR HOUSE THIS WEEK!
It sold in 5 days- much quicker than we had ever anticipated. It's exciting and we'll walk away with enough cash to pay off most of our debts, except the cars. I'm happy about that.
Now here's the sad part- we had this perfect home picked out in Farmington. We made an offer- they accepted with a contingency that we sell our house within a certain time frame. They would remain open to other offers in the meantime. We were sure the house was ours after our house sold in 5 days, but alas, they took another offer and we lost the home. I'm totally bummed and now we're likely to be homeless in the next few weeks if we don't find something fast!
I will miss our humble little abode, the place we've called home the last 8 years- where our 2 youngest learned to walk- and where my kids have enjoyed and loved their school, church, friends etc.
Did I bore you with this pretentious blog (I hate that word!) post?
There's something about the piano that I just love- probably why it's my instrument of choice.
Get an incredibly talented singer and writer behind the piano and I'm hooked.
Today's song comes from Sara Bareilles. I'm lucky to own her album because of my wife's good taste in music. Sara Bareilles has managed to break through to the mainstream with her talent and catchy songs, one of which was stuck in my head this morning. Here's "Bottle It Up" from Bareilles' first album LITTLE VOICE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf92q6Vrj2o
According to Bareilles herself in a clip I just watched, this song is about the sometimes tumultuous relationship with her record label. She confidently sings that her music is good but that she is being held back by their expectations- yet she does what she does because she loves it and will keep on doing it.
This is a common theme for musicians and it's crazy to me that record labels put songs like this onto the albums they produce. Are they that daft that they would think the song is about something else? Or are the artists clever enough to make the lyrics ambiguous enough to mask the truth from them? "Bottle It Up" certainly could be interpreted to mean something else. How very clever of you, Sara Bareilles.
