Hamilton and music
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osprey_archerAfter having it on hold for approximately forever, I finally got the soundtrack of Hamilton from the library! Mostly I'm excited about this because it means that I will finally understand what the heck everyone else is talking about, although I have already listened to the first few tracks and it seems like fun.
So far, Alexander Hamilton has been heartbreakingly eager to make friends with Aaron Burr and all his cool buddies. Aaron Burr is like "Talk less." Hamilton is so excited that he has FRIENDS for the first time in his whole life that he talks even more.
I put Hamilton on hold pretty much first thing back in February when I had the bright idea of borrowing CDs from the library to expand my music knowledge. Despite the fact that my library has entire racks of CDs right there when you walk in the front door, somehow this had not occurred to me before, but I've been listening to lots of new stuff and it's great. Well, obviously some of the actual music isn't great, but it's great to be listening to new things instead of the same old CDs fifteen times in a row.
Although I have found some music that I love. I picked up a Maddie and Tae CD on a whim and their music is so sassy, they have an entire song where the punchline is basically "And then I pushed my date into the river," this is the kind of quality sass I want in my music.
Actually I find that female country singers often have a sassy edge. Kacey Musgraves has a bunch of deeply sarcastic songs about the joys of country living, while Carrie Underwood has a number of songs that are basically revenge fantasies against men who done their women wrong.
Male country singers, on the other hand, spend a lot more time singing about alcohol. Kenny Chesney has approximately fifteen songs about the joys of tequila, whiskey, and beer, and then one about going to AA.
Sometimes I discover that there is a reason why I only know one or two songs from the band, and that is because those songs are either totally unrepresentative of their work - Avicii's "Wake Me Up" comes to mind - or because those songs are so very representative of their work that you really don't need to listen to any of the rest of it. As much as I like Owl City's song "Fireflies," I've discovered that find the band's music almost unbearably twee in high concentrations.
So far, Alexander Hamilton has been heartbreakingly eager to make friends with Aaron Burr and all his cool buddies. Aaron Burr is like "Talk less." Hamilton is so excited that he has FRIENDS for the first time in his whole life that he talks even more.
I put Hamilton on hold pretty much first thing back in February when I had the bright idea of borrowing CDs from the library to expand my music knowledge. Despite the fact that my library has entire racks of CDs right there when you walk in the front door, somehow this had not occurred to me before, but I've been listening to lots of new stuff and it's great. Well, obviously some of the actual music isn't great, but it's great to be listening to new things instead of the same old CDs fifteen times in a row.
Although I have found some music that I love. I picked up a Maddie and Tae CD on a whim and their music is so sassy, they have an entire song where the punchline is basically "And then I pushed my date into the river," this is the kind of quality sass I want in my music.
Actually I find that female country singers often have a sassy edge. Kacey Musgraves has a bunch of deeply sarcastic songs about the joys of country living, while Carrie Underwood has a number of songs that are basically revenge fantasies against men who done their women wrong.
Male country singers, on the other hand, spend a lot more time singing about alcohol. Kenny Chesney has approximately fifteen songs about the joys of tequila, whiskey, and beer, and then one about going to AA.
Sometimes I discover that there is a reason why I only know one or two songs from the band, and that is because those songs are either totally unrepresentative of their work - Avicii's "Wake Me Up" comes to mind - or because those songs are so very representative of their work that you really don't need to listen to any of the rest of it. As much as I like Owl City's song "Fireflies," I've discovered that find the band's music almost unbearably twee in high concentrations.
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Date: 2016-06-06 02:01 am (UTC)But, if you are interested in expanding your range to sassy male country singers, you could try Paul Thorn.
(I just expand my musical taste through youtube, though.)
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Date: 2016-06-06 02:09 am (UTC)I also haven't heard of Paul Thorn, but neither has the library. :( Do you have a favorite song or two that I should look up on Youtube?
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Date: 2016-06-06 02:18 am (UTC)