My Music Journal 2025: August 12, 2025

 

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Time: 5:04 PM
Song: Losing My Religion
Artist: REM
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle on the way home from work.

I have a distinct memory of this song playing at Westwood Sports Complex in Sterling at some point in my youth. My sister, Kim, played her youth softball games at fields located to the east of the main Westwood Complex.

Doing a bit of Googling, I see that the song was released in February of 1991. So, it’s possible it was the summer of 1991. I would have been 9 years old.

I don’t remember anything else.

Just that I was there, and I am pretty sure watching my sister play softball, and “Losing My Religion” was playing

I don’t know where the music was playing from. I don’t remember there being speakers at any of the softball fields. Youth sports were played too much less fanfare back then; I imagine that went double for girls’ sports.

I suspect someone had their car radio blaring.

Or maybe the game was over, and we were sitting in our car for some reason with the radio playing.

I don’t even know why I have this memory, or why it pretty much comes to my mind anytime I hear the song, or I happen to be at Westwood.

I do know that I never quite understood what the phrase “losing my religion” meant, but I always assumed it was something sordid, and as a youth, likely something sexual that I didn’t comprehend.

What I can say, is that the song is catchy, and it’s a good one to sing along to on the way home from work and wonder about some random evening when I was nine.