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by Jeff
Rated: 18+ · Book · Biographical · #1399999
My primary Writing.com blog.
Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:

         *Penw* "The Soundtrackers Group
         *Penw* "Blogging Circle of Friends
         *Penw* "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise
         *Penw* "JAFBG
         *Penw* "Take up Your Cross


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September 30, 2024 at 12:53pm
September 30, 2024 at 12:53pm
#1077489
"Barrel of Monkeys
Day 7






"Keep Holding On"
by Avril Lavigne
from The Best Damn Thing (2007)


This is one of the few Avril Lavigne songs that I'm aware of which was released on a soundtrack before she released it on an album. It was the lead single off the Eragon movie soundtrack in 2006, and then later included on her third studio album The Best Damn Thing which was released the following year.

I've always liked this song because I think there are a lot of songs about breakup and hurt and relationships ending and stuff along those lines, but there are much fewer songs about persevering and continuing to stick together through hard times, and I think we need more of those songs in the world.



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September 30, 2024 at 12:03pm
September 30, 2024 at 12:03pm
#1077486
"Barrel of Monkeys
Day 6






"My Happy Ending"
by Avril Lavigne
from Under My Skin (2004)


This second single off Avril's second album was basically the breakup anthem for my generation for several years. Anytime someone in a relationship broke up, had a bad fight, etc. it was pretty much guaranteed that they were blasting this song in their car or their room for several weeks afterward.

For me, this song is reminiscent of the early 2000s emo/pop punk phase in music where a lot of the love songs were angsty and bittersweet, and this song (and the whole album, in fact) have often been compared to musical artists who have the same general style like Paramore, Evanescence, etc.

Like her song "I'm With You from her first album, this was the album from her second that convinced me she was a really, really talented musical artist. She has the pop-punk hits, of course, which are extremely popular and probably what sell most of her albums, but each album also has one of these more thoughtful, contemplative songs on each of her albums too, which show a real depth and sophistication and maturity to her songwriting. And the combination of the two types of songs have been a real recipe for her success over the past twenty years, I think. Because each album contains multitudes, rather than the same flavor of song over and over again.


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