My Music Journal: February 10, 2025

 

Monday, February 10, 2025

Time: 7:57 PM
Song: White Winter Hymnal 
Artist: Fleet Foxes
Mode of Consumption: Playlist Pandemonium Winter is Here playlist for songs from the last twenty years that reminds us of winter. 

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/0GegHVxeozw3rdjte45Bfx?si=7a5f817f03784c85

I’ll admit that today is the first time that I’ve went through most of the day without being inspired by one song or another since I started this little blog experiment at the beginning of the year. And since I am already tired I doubt I'll be staying up late enough to just luck into one, so I had to be proactive in choosing a song.

It was bound to happen. 

I listened to music during the normal times. Morning workout. Drive to work. First few hours of work. Drive home from work. 

It was just a day where I was either busy or my mind just wasn’t tuned to the music. 

So, I sit down tonight wanting to find a song that fits this feeling. 

Well, this morning I had listened to this playlist, straight through, and yet late in the morning, I looked down to realize that it had ended and that Spotify had slipped into whatever songs it feels relates to the playlist. 

I like the “White Winter Hymnal,” and I decide it’s a song that feels like it would play in the background of a movie or TV show, but it wouldn’t dominate the scene. Instead, the action on the screen would carry the movement, while the song simply helps move it along.

If you didn’t know the song, you might not even have noticed it, probably not until it played in some random playlist sparking your mind to remember where you’ve heard the damn thing before. 

Maybe all of this relates to winter. That between the cold and the dark, we’re moving through time, barely even noticing the notes, the chords, the melody, and the lyrics of life playing just at the edge of our conscience.