Thanks for sharing your super eclectic taste! Love the emphasis on lyrics. I always look up the lyrics before I listen to a song to see if it's worth my time 😉 My drummer husband is appalled by that. Anyway, that's a great point at the beginning, too. What's even the point of being snobs about music?
I think the song "Different Now" by Andy Gullahorn might apply to what you're asking for.
It's about how everyone always expected him to be good, so when he rebelled he felt he had to keep it a secret, until eventually he was humbled to the point where he was "baptized by the fire of all my failure." In the end, he made "amends with an honest life" and acknowledged that, though he's still got a lot wrong with him, he's growing and happy with who he is, imperfect and all.
By the way, his song "Light a Candle" is beautiful in times when the world feels really dark, and his song "The End of a World" is a powerful, honest song about grief. And "Roast Beef" is a hilarious true story about someone's toe getting chopped off (and a play on "This Little Piggy"; not sure if you do that in Spain, ha), "Teenagers" is a funny and true reflection on that stage of parenting, and "Skinny Jeans" is about how he's willing to sellout as a musician to get famous...but he has limits and won't wear the skinny jeans.
Which brings me to a question I'm SO curious about...what's it like listening to American music in Spain? Do you feel like there's an "American mindset" as a whole that informs our music, or are we all so different that you can't really categorize our way of thinking? Is there anything in American music that hasn't made sense to you?
This is a LONG comment, so no pressure to reply. Just wanted to throw those thoughts out there :)
Thanks for sharing your super eclectic taste! Love the emphasis on lyrics. I always look up the lyrics before I listen to a song to see if it's worth my time 😉 My drummer husband is appalled by that. Anyway, that's a great point at the beginning, too. What's even the point of being snobs about music?
I think the song "Different Now" by Andy Gullahorn might apply to what you're asking for.
It's about how everyone always expected him to be good, so when he rebelled he felt he had to keep it a secret, until eventually he was humbled to the point where he was "baptized by the fire of all my failure." In the end, he made "amends with an honest life" and acknowledged that, though he's still got a lot wrong with him, he's growing and happy with who he is, imperfect and all.
By the way, his song "Light a Candle" is beautiful in times when the world feels really dark, and his song "The End of a World" is a powerful, honest song about grief. And "Roast Beef" is a hilarious true story about someone's toe getting chopped off (and a play on "This Little Piggy"; not sure if you do that in Spain, ha), "Teenagers" is a funny and true reflection on that stage of parenting, and "Skinny Jeans" is about how he's willing to sellout as a musician to get famous...but he has limits and won't wear the skinny jeans.
Which brings me to a question I'm SO curious about...what's it like listening to American music in Spain? Do you feel like there's an "American mindset" as a whole that informs our music, or are we all so different that you can't really categorize our way of thinking? Is there anything in American music that hasn't made sense to you?
This is a LONG comment, so no pressure to reply. Just wanted to throw those thoughts out there :)