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Listen to music with me, my loves
Feb. 14th, 2019 04:12 pmhttps://soundcloud.com/defunk-165975487/sets/valentine-mix
For those who just want the tunes, here's an hour and a half "Valentine Mix" from Defunk. Like a lot of long mixes it has good bits and bad bits and I don't think all of it will appeal to any listener more particularly. It has funky bits and country bits and electronica bits and some lovely moments. I link to it because it's a Valentine's Day mix without a lot of sappy 'romantic' pop stuff. If you know me at all, you know that's not my speed. I don't even much like V-D.
What I do like is music. If you know me at all, you know that music and sharing music is an important part of my love language. Not in that "oh, here's our song and let's stare soulfully into each other's eyes while it plays" (non)sense. But rather, music is love. Sharing music is showing you care. Music, and sharing of music, has been an important part of every meaningful relationship I can remember in my life.
If we haven't shared music, then we haven't shared something important to me and it's a way in which we aren't close, yet. We can share music by passing tunes back and forth, by going to shows together that we both enjoy, by proclaiming our favored music's superiority, by arguing about which of our musics is good, bad, or just plain trash. You can love terrible music - music I can't even listen to. You can think my music is terrible and unlistenable. When you choose to share that, you are saying "love" to me. This is something I've known about myself for a long time but haven't really been able to articulate until recently.
These music blogs are acts of me sharing my love with you, my readers. I hope you recognize yourself reflected in these sharings, as I mark and blog music sometimes with people in mind. I hope you hear this language and will speak it with me. And I hope you have a good Valentine's Day, whatever your love language is.
For those who just want the tunes, here's an hour and a half "Valentine Mix" from Defunk. Like a lot of long mixes it has good bits and bad bits and I don't think all of it will appeal to any listener more particularly. It has funky bits and country bits and electronica bits and some lovely moments. I link to it because it's a Valentine's Day mix without a lot of sappy 'romantic' pop stuff. If you know me at all, you know that's not my speed. I don't even much like V-D.
What I do like is music. If you know me at all, you know that music and sharing music is an important part of my love language. Not in that "oh, here's our song and let's stare soulfully into each other's eyes while it plays" (non)sense. But rather, music is love. Sharing music is showing you care. Music, and sharing of music, has been an important part of every meaningful relationship I can remember in my life.
If we haven't shared music, then we haven't shared something important to me and it's a way in which we aren't close, yet. We can share music by passing tunes back and forth, by going to shows together that we both enjoy, by proclaiming our favored music's superiority, by arguing about which of our musics is good, bad, or just plain trash. You can love terrible music - music I can't even listen to. You can think my music is terrible and unlistenable. When you choose to share that, you are saying "love" to me. This is something I've known about myself for a long time but haven't really been able to articulate until recently.
These music blogs are acts of me sharing my love with you, my readers. I hope you recognize yourself reflected in these sharings, as I mark and blog music sometimes with people in mind. I hope you hear this language and will speak it with me. And I hope you have a good Valentine's Day, whatever your love language is.
