The weather is starting to change and the smell of fall is in the air. Today, like many days in the foreseeable future, it is rainy and dreary. Now most people, when making their music choices for such a day, would avoid the likes of Bon Iver, Damien Rice, Elliot Smith or Arcade Fire. But for some sick, masochistic reason, I am drawn to this feel of music more than usual on days like this. It is the same thing as when I am depressed. I like, no better word is love, to wallow in the melancholy. To feel the deep sadness that envelopes me, take over and consume my every emotion. But instead of it depressing me further, it just makes me feel on warm inside, like someone has just wrapped me in a heavy blanket. Does this mean there is something seriously warped about me or what?
Currently listening to Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago"
Photo Courtesy of Dieter Drescher via Flickr
You are definitely not warped Ms. Johnson. I can tell you that whenever it's dreary or whenever I am depressed, I always find my way to "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead, "Asleep" by The Smiths, Ray LaMontagne's "Burn" and ultimately any of Ryan Adams' songs. Honestly, it just wouldn't be right to be down in the dumps and attempt to "jam" to the up-tempo likes of the fabulous Katy Perry or Ms. Spears. Honestly, if I'm feeling a little morose...it's because I want to be. And no happy music is going to fit into my day. I say, wallow in it baby! It makes you feel so much better...and hey, you get to listen to some of the greatest songs ever written.
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