I've been doing something I've never done before. I've been listening to the same song for dozens of plays in a row. There's been a couple songs like this, and today it was this one from Fashawn. I don't know much about him, and definitely only found the song because of J. Cole's feature. The keys, the drums, the ambient clicking and shifting in the background--I love feeling like I'm going deeper into the music with every play, even without the lyrics. Sometimes it's about really hearing it: hearing the actual sounds, the rasp and spit in a voice. Other times it's about experiencing the hearing differently: trying to get under the sounds, or trying to imagine them emerging around me, rather than flowing to me like a stream. It honestly is how I used to listen to music when I was first really getting into it, 16 or 18 years old. Every other song I heard was special then. It's good to go back and appreciate how much every song still is, and how I can still listen in that way. I'll also dedicate this post to all the people in my life who take time to themselves. I hope each day you wake up with yourself (same shit different day?) you feel like you're getting deeper into yourself, either in the content, or the way you hear it.
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