Learning to Fly

Well, you see,,,

I realized recently how incredibly good and important the song "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae is, so yesterday I was looking up to find out what Corinne said about the inspiration behind the song (since she is a co-writer of it), and one of the things she said about it resonated with me SO FUCKING DEEPLY: "I found that as a young person, music was a really amazing way to find confidence and to find self-expression. You could always find that song that's like, 'That's just me. That person knows exactly how I feel.' Certain pop songs. I feel like I just put on music and feel like invincible and super confident and bold and let the music sort of carry you. To me, that's what my favorite song is doing. It would turn me from being someone that was shy or self conscious or uncomfortable into a feeling really sort of bold and confident while that song is on, you kind of live in the song."

No one seems to hear me when I say PUNK ISN'T FUCKING DEAD BECAUSE THE LINDA LINDAS ARE ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEEPING IT FUCKING ALIVE.