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Tune In Tuesday: The Take It Away, Ladies Edition

Tune In Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by GReads!

To join or not to join a weekly meme. Isn’t that always the question? In this case, seeing as how I’m moving towards incorporating various forms of media here – look for television talk, movie reviews, and so on in the future – there was no good reason for me to not jump on the Tune In Tuesday train. It may be that I’m an irregular contributor, though, and that’s okay. From now on, this blog is a happy-making zone. No chores for me! (Besides, that is, the everyday, did-I-forget-the-laundry-in-the-dryer-again type ones.)

On to the music!

The lovely lady propped against that turquoise door is Yael Naim. Her song “Lonely” has been on non-stop repeat since I found it, which happened to be at exactly the right time considering how well-suited it was (is) to a fic I’m working on. The tone, the lyrics…Gave my motivation a shot in the arm, set the mood for my writing, and just…Well, I love it, see. I hope you do too.

The equally lovely lady of the orangish-red lip is Lucia. I know very little – next to nothing, really – about her beyond the fact that I thoroughly enjoy the sound of her voice, her piano playing, and will definitely keep my eye out for anything she produces in the future.

Click through for the songs.

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Musical Interlude: “Riverside” by Agnes Obel

I have no skill for explaining music; most of the time I’m hardly listening at all. I’m feeling. Drowning. Living. And so there’ll be no technical terms, no appreciation expressed for single notes, runs, or riffs. It’ll just be me saying I like this sound, these words; it touches a part of me, reminds me that I can be more, that I can be someone wise or enchanting, or lost, tucked in dreams no one can touch. It’ll just be me saying you might like it too. Musical Interlude is an every-now-and-then feature on Tempting Persephone.

One listen to Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics and I was ensnared. This song – “Riverside” – is brilliantly haunting. It brings to mind ghosts and misplaced love, nights of sweltering heat and moss coated pond water*, and…A million other little things that give you free reign to craft an amazing, transporting story. It makes me want to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty with sweet, sticky words.

*Even without the visual aide of the video, which wonderfully matches the tone of the song.