Destroying thought in order to save it – The lone survivor of a doomed expedition
Description: Sounds Delightful is a personal blog about pop music. I write about whatever I’m interested in at the moment, so I not striving for timeliness or hipness. Rather, I’m trying to explore the emotional core of why I find pop music to be so glorious.
Pop songs and thoughts about them from the second half of 2019. Combined with #18 , this makes a pretty good surrogate for my year-end list, though not all the songs are from 2019.
Listen on Spotify if you must, but be warned that one of the best songs of the year is not on there.
Jonas Brothers — “Sucker” (2019) It’s become a tradition that each year during our family beach vacation, I ask my sister and her husband for their opinions on “the song of the summer.” Nancy and Joe are two of the few adults I know who have great taste and are still actively engaged with hit music. And because they are close in age to me, they share the sensibilities of our generation. The happy result is that they’re able to recommend music that is currently popular, while remaining recognizable to me as
Destroying thought in order to save it – The lone survivor of a doomed expedition