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 |  A blog about music from my unique perspective (also a spot for some poetry I’ve written) |
I couldn't recap last year's playlist without mentioning at least one song from OneRepublic's 2016 album Oh My My. There would be many more, only I've run out of days in the month  Let's Hurt Tonight was a lead single off the album and featured in a movie . I'm a sucker for warm acoustic guitar openings, and this has been a treasured favorite of mine since I discovered it. I love Ryan's vulnerability as he pours his heart into the message of open, honest communication as the glue holding a relationship together. In 2024, I chose Oh My My as the album I would write stories to for Jeff's "Musicology Anthology"  . This was the biggest writing project I'd taken on yet, requiring me to get eighteen stories completed in two months (it would have been three, but I participated in "Game of Thrones" in April…) For the entire writing process, the only music I listened to was this 1R album, as I was determined to tap the atmosphere and concepts of each song to create the best, most inspired stories possible, without being distracted by other unrelated songs.(Conveniently, both 1R and ID released their 2024 albums almost immediately after this project was completed, so I was able to focus entirely on the new music, almost as a reward for reaching what felt like a nearly insurmountable goal.) Anyway, as I brainstormed ideas of story themes to tie in with each song on the album, I found myself hearkening back to a theme I'd been wanting to write a story on for many years, long before I became a OneRepublic aficionado. It's a mashup of the themes of Lady Windermere's Fan (Oscar Wilde) and The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens), with a modern, inclusive twist added by the heroine's identity, which is my own. The entire concept is one I feel deeply about and have turned over from many angles in my head. I often ponder the significance of marriage, what it means to be a spouse and the expectations each person brings to the relationship and how these can be reconciled. With an allotment of 2500 words and an appropriate lyrical theme, I decided 1R's Let's Hurt Tonight would provide me the perfect opportunity to finally write the story I'd dreamed of. And I did. My album collection won first place at Jeff's contest, and Let's Hurt Tonight received an award from an appreciative fellow author. I'm proud of myself for getting such an intimate story out there, and I have to thank OneRepublic for giving me the courage to do so within the framework of their beautifully kaleidoscopic album. Without further bragging or advertising, here's the song, with my story down below. Enjoy them both 
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