time marches on
This week’s I-5 playlist, featuring cheesy love songs and songs to commit suicide to:
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Lionel Richie “The Only One” (flashback to sometime in the 1980s, but also evocative of August 2001)
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Eden’s Crush “Love This Way” (flashback to August 2001. Yes! Nicole Scherzinger!)
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[Elliott Smith “I Didn’t Understand”][1] (flashback to September 2007)
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[Ben Folds Five “Evaporated”][2] (flashback to January 2001)
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Hiroko Kasahara “Moichido Love You” (flashback to January 1996)
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Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle “A Whole New World” (flashback to December 1992), this version has Lea Salonga singing the woman’s part instead)
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Toad the Wet Sprocket “Little Heaven” (flashback to August 1992)
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Tiffany “All This Time” (flashback to June 1988, but more illustrative of June 1998)
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Elliott Smith’s “I Didn’t Understand”, Ben Folds Five’s “Evaporated”, and Tiffany’s “All This Time” are not exactly the most uplifting set of songs, but it didn’t spin me down the usual downward spiral of depression. What it did evoke was this sense of completely misunderstanding the past 15 years of my life. In some ways, I feel like destiny passed me by, and I’m living some sort of shadow life. In other ways, I feel like I completely misunderstood my destiny, and I’ve been wishing for things that were never meant to be, and now here I am, reluctantly awake from my fantastic dreams.
Dum spiro, spero, right?