I PERSONAL ESSAY | BY ME ABOUT ME | MUSIC
“You’re Here, I’m Pleased” And Other Music I Listened To This Year
The soundtrack of my life is diverse and vibrant. And music underscores all the stories I bring to Medium.com.
Quite some time ago, Toni The Talker challenged her fans to write about the music that influences their lives.
I LOVE so much music.
I needed to figure out how to start and where to finish the conversation on this topic.
Today, Apple Music shared a resource to allow me to share my passion with you.
Scarlet Listens, 2023 Recap, Per AppleMusic
- I listened to 7.6 days of music in 2023 (over 11k minutes)
- I listened to Falana’s ‘Start Again’ the most
To everything that we don’t know that we are missing to all the lies that we have ever sold ourselves to the love that we let go and now regret it To the life we could’ve had but never chanced Take a breath, let it out start again, start again — Falana https://www.songlyrics.com/falana/start-again-lyrics/
- My anthem this year was, Wake Me Up, by Avicii
So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself, and I Didn’t know I was lost — Avicii https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/avicii-wake-me-up-2
- This album was in continual rotation: Ushuaïa Ibiza: July 28, 2023 (DJ Mix)
One kiss is all it takes Fallin’ in love with me Possibilities I look like all you need — One Kiss, Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/calvin-harris-one-kiss-1
- The genre I came back to again and again was ⚡E̷L̷E̷C̷T̷R̷O̷N̷I̷C̷ ⚡
Scarlet’s Top 15 of 2023
Music in my stories
Songs I love wove their way into my stories.
- Shake It Out [Oorun] | Latch [Norm] | Someone Like You [Adrian]
Even now, as I write, I listen
You’ll try everything you never thought would work before When you live, when you love, and you give them your all You can always give up some more Baby nothing means anything unless you’re here to share with me I can breathe, I can bleed, I can die in my sleep ’Cause you’re always there in my dreams
I wanna spend time till it ends I wanna fall with you again Like we did when we first met I wanna fall with you again — Glenn Lewis: https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/glenn-lewis-fall-again
So, what say you? Did our musical interests overlap? Are we completely divergent? Comment, will you? Let me know.
© Scarlet Ibis James, 2023: All Rights Reserved.
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The title of this Medium story includes the lyrics from a Jill Scott song.
You’re here, I’m pleased I really dig your company Your style, your smile, your peace mentality Lord, have mercy on me I was blind, now I can see What a king’s supposed to be Baby I feel free, come on and go with me — Jill Scott, https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/jill-scott-a-long-walk-1
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