I rarely listen to the radio. The only time anymore seems to be in the car on short trips when I don’t bring a CD to listen to, or the tiny window of time between starting the car and putting in a CD, then taking out the CD and turning off the engine. In those times, it’s either yapping DJs, commercials, or a song I’ve never heard before, but don’t like after a few bars. Unless it’s one of the oldies-type stations, then it’s usually 80’s or 90’s and you have no idea how much it kills me to refer to the 80’s and 90’s as OLDIES music.
ANYWAY.
I was coming home from my biweekly chiropractor appointment and parked in the garage. I cut the engine, closed the garage door, and ejected the CD to a song on the radio I had never heard before, but the voice sounded somewhat familiar. At first I thought it might be Fall Out Boy but it didn’t quite sound like Patrick Stump. I sat in my car (engine not running) in the dark garage listening to the song and then proceeded into the house to my computer to look up what had just played.
It was High Hopes by Panic! At the Disco. I wasn’t terribly surprised, because half the time I can’t tell the difference between the two bands, but I also could only actually name one Panic! song (I Write Sins Not Tragedies) that came out over a decade ago. And I didn’t really care for it at the time. That one song was the entire basis of my opinion of the band, which was…MEH.
But this new(er) song caught my attention. And then I fell down a Youtube rabbit hole of Panic! songs and I’ve been listening to it on a loop ever since. Apparently I like Panic! At the Disco, and for some reason I feel like I should hate myself for that, but I have no idea why exactly. Maybe because I’m middle-aged and not an angsty 14-year-old kid and I am not exactly the target demographic of EMO music?
Also I am not entirely convinced Brendon Urie and Darren Criss are really two different people.
I’ve pretty much been staring blankly at the wall for almost the entire month of May, so at least I had some new music to obsess over while I wasn’t writing or doing anything else I actually enjoy doing.
This has been the view I’ve been staring at for the last few weeks. A mindless mobile game (Farmville 2: Country Escape if you want to judge me, I don’t care.) and Panic! videos. (Or just audio.) Word and Home Designer and the internet are closed, and I’ve been alternating between staring at that stupid game or just the blank wall above my desk.
ZOLOFT CAN BITE ME.
But we’ll talk about that at a later time. Maybe. We’ll see.
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Top 10 Most Played Artists for May 2019…
1.) O.A.R. … 464 plays
2.) Matt Nathanson … 271 plays
3.) Nine Days … 240 plays
4.) Matchbox Twenty … 232 plays
5.) Splender … 189 plays
6.) Parachute … 150 plays
7.) Tonic … 141 plays
8.) Train … 141 plays
9.) Darren Criss … 131 plays
10.) Gavin DeGraw … 81 plays
Honorable mention: The Fray, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Emerson Hart, 2AM Club
Total of 2,398 plays of 632 tracks from 72 albums by 19 artists.
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