7SvenDec 29

Here's part 2 of my new series about the songs of my upcoming album "But Live It", out on 23rd January on Bandcamp.

A cliff diver standing high above the blue water deep below him. He’s about to jump in a few seconds and thoughts rush through his mind. They seem random, but they also seem to come from deep inside himself.

#AnorexicMind #TheStoryBehindTheSong #7Sven #ButLiveIt #IndieArtist #ArtPop #JazzRock #SingerSongwriter #InnerStruggle #MentalLoad #LyricsMatter #IntrospectiveMusic

jpOct 24
“Girl Next Door” functions as a continuation of Clark’s commitment to “hillbilly feminism,” but it is forced into a glossy, consumable package. The lyrical content must remain recognizably “country” while the sonic texture achieves pop-adjacent polish to bypass the gendered constraints of radio.
#BrandyClark #GirlNextDoor #CountryMusic #SongAnalysis #MusicCriticism #LyricsMatter #Authenticity #FeminismInMusic #GenderAndGenre #MusicWriting
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/girl-next-door-brandy-clarks-outlaw-woman-lite/
“Girl Next Door”: Brandy Clark’s Outlaw Woman Lite

In “Girl Next Door” (2016), Brandy Clark warns a suitor that if he’s looking for “Some Virgin Mary metaphor/Your cardboard cutout on the wall/Your paper or your Barbie doll/With perfect hair and a …

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jpAug 30, 2025
The last verse of Senses Fail’s “Miles to Go” (2022) is the final stanza from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Whoever came up with that idea doesn’t know how poetry works. If you think any part of Robert Frost’s poem can exist in a vacuum, isolated from the whole, you’re a philistine.
#MusicCritique #PoetryInMusic #RobertFrost #SensesFail #MilesToGo #LitNerd #RockAndRollAnalysis #CulturalCritique #LyricsMatter #Intertextuality
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/senses-fail-has-miles-to-go-before-they-can-write-a-decent-song/
Senses Fail has “Miles to Go” Before They Can Write a Decent Song

The last verse of Senses Fail’s “Miles to Go” (2022) is the final stanza from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Whoever came up with that idea doesn’t know how poetry works. If you think any …

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jpAug 16, 2025
Papa Roach turned suicide into a mall-anthem chorus. Badflower turned it into a confession. One screams for attention, the other actually thinks about the fallout.
#PapaRoach #Badflower #LastResort #MyFuneral #MusicCriticism #AltRock #NuMetal #MentalHealthInMusic #LyricsMatter #SongAnalysis
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/cut-my-song-into-pieces-papa-roach-vs-badflower/
Cut My Song Into Pieces: Papa Roach vs. Badflower

If Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” (2000) were honest, it would sound like Badflower’s “My Funeral” (2021). Both Jacoby Shaddix and Josh Katz wonder what might happen “if I took my life tonight,” but wh…

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jpJul 21, 2025
Just when you think “baby talk” can’t get any more annoying, Miley Cyrus’s BB Talk takes it to a new level — with way too many f-bombs and awkward lyrics to match. Is this edgy or just overdone?
#MusicCritique #MileyCyrus #BBTalk #SongReview #LyricsMatter #PopMusic #SongAnalysis #MusicWriting #Criticism #MusicReview #PopMusicCritique #ProfanityInMusic #EdgyLyrics #BabyTalk
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/bb-talk/
Miley Cyrus’s BB Talk; or, Hey, I’m Just a Regular Armpit-Sniffing, Teeth-Licking Gal

“BB Talk” is the pot calling the kettle black while trying too hard to sound black. If I were the kettle, I would tell the pot, ‘Well, at least I’m not a wigger.’   In the song, Miley Cyrus is so f…

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jpJul 14, 2025
Not every “feel-good anthem” is actually feeling good. Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” plays like a summer party hit, but listen closer — it’s really a deadpan portrait of barfly burnout and booze-soaked ennui. A hangover in pop song form.
#SherylCrow #AllIWannaDo #90sMusic #PopIrony #SongAnalysis #HiddenMeanings #MusicCriticism #BukowskiVibes #IcemanCometh #SummerAnthemOrNot #LyricsMatter #DeadpanPop
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/all-i-wanna-do/
“All I Wanna Do” Isn’t a Summer Anthem — It’s a Hangover Dirge

“All I Wanna Do” may be the “Every Breath You Take” of the 1990s — a massively misinterpreted massive hit. Just because it’s set “to a sweet instrumental setting of jangly guitars and toe-tapping b…

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jpJul 4, 2025

“I Am the Highway” isn’t a song about the road. It is the road — but on Chris Cornell’s terms.

Less about touring, more about shedding roles others assign to you.

“I am not your carpet ride — I am the sky.”
#audioslave #chriscornell #songanalysis #musicwriting #lyricsmatter #iamthehighway #whitman
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/i-am-the-highway/

I AM THE HIGHWAY (2003) by Audioslave

At first glance, Audioslave’s “I Am the Highway” seems like the culmination of a long tradition of touring songs. The narrator has been on the road so long, he has become it. However, it soon …

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PlatonischerRebellFeb 14, 2025

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rko7cFD8A 💡 „Ich höre dir zu, aber nicht aus Interesse – ich will nur wissen, wie tief du noch sinkst.“ #MusicVideo #RockMusic #AlternativeRock #Sarkasmus #Ironie #ChaoticReflection #FreeSpeech #Meinungsfreiheit #Humor #LyricalSong #MusicWithMessage #Rebellion #PopRockFusion #EmotionalMusic #LyricsMatter #NewMusic #IndieMusic #AlternativeVibes #RockAnthem #MusikMitBiss #DeutschEnglisch #ViralMusic #TrendySongs #FunkyBeats

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