But there was one song that really felt like sunshine and freshly cut grass and that was ‘Put Your Records On’ by Corinne Bailey Rae. I listened to whatever my mom played, and loved almost all of it. Most music I heard when I was 6 or 7, I heard in the car. I hadn’t yet disillusioned myself to believe that popular songs were bad because they were popular. I hadn’t started considering myself ‘an indie kid’ and letting that dictate what I liked and what I didn’t. I didn’t know there was such thing as a music ‘industry.’ I hadn’t yet commodified my music taste as a way to impress people. And ‘Put Your Records On’ is done really, really well. Art, done well, tends to bring about this realization. You can remember why you loved something and love it again, for different reasons or for the same. If you give the past a closer look, a fonder look, you’ll likely notice something that transcends the stages of your life. I think we’re often pressured to push through nostalgia, to “keep moving forward,” but recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the potential we could be missing out on if we ignore the things we loved about the past. Nostalgia’s always gonna be there, in some form, for anything you leave behind. Ritt Momney – Corrine Bailey Rae’s ‘Put Your Records On’ In this Love Letter To A Record series, Music Feeds asks artists to reflect on their relationship with music and share with us stories about the effect music has had on their lives.
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