so today was a lot better, in large part because i knew this morning that i would have to actively, aggressively set myself up for a good day. so i did. music i love, SPN meta posts i was super into (more about that later, unless not), half a caffeine pill to really pump up the ~~good chmeicals~~ - it was a fuckin fine start to the day

and carried through most of it, making it a lot easier to avoid getting sucked into the christmas/dad/stephen's memorial pit that got me yesterday

i'll keep you posted on how it goes the next few days

Florence, Phoenix, and Queen. what about you? :B

Taylor, the Killers, Regina Spektor, Florence and Martina? Show number one, please

oh I just picked one per night not one night XD

yeah I'd do that night, too

also I didn't know you knew country music

no rules, come and go as you like

duuuuuuude

DUDE

my teenage self was so into country

nineties country rules

nineties country is a lot better than modern country that's for sure

Martina is pretty great

Vince Gil is also not terrible

mom took my sister and me to a Garth Brooks concert when i was like eleven, it was the fuckin best

my first ever concert was MAry Chapin Carpenter

LOVE THAT

but yeah i did love country as a teenager and have very fond memories of a lot of country artists then.Martina McBride? Love. Shania Twain? Love. Mindy McCready? Sorry how she ended, Love. Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Randy Travis, Garth himself - Love

Garth was fuckin... liberal for country. he has a whole song about climate change and acceptance and freedom of religion

I never liked Tim McGraw much but the rest. Pam Tillis and Tanya Tucker and Kathy Mattea. Hal Ketchum and Dwight Yokam

Patty Loveless!

It is true that Garth had some very liberal songs. It is also true that he did American Honky-Tonk Bar Association, which is. Deeply conservative

I feel like he straddled a line really well, esp for the nineties

yeah that one song. with its one awful line about welfare

Like he also did a song in the late nineties that clearly about the Troubles in Ireland, which was political enough that it got zero airtime even though it’s one of his best

I fuckin love that song

Ireland still sometimes makes me cry

I love it so much

I feel like songs like American Honky etc and Friends in Low Places helped him slide into a conservative white genre of music and let him do songs like We Shall Be Free and Changes so long as he kept dropping the occasional conservative nugget

I mean then there's the cynic in me who says he was just trying to write for both sides of the isle for the ability to generate more revenue, given the liberal side of country was a little bigger back then, but he does really trend more towards the liberal side

not as much as Mary Chapin Carpenter or the Chicks but still pretty over there

Oh def they both did it better

have you heard Mary's more recent stuff? oh my god. it's really good. I don't know how my stupidly conservative dad can listen to it and not feel guilty

She’s still recording???

well "more recent" was probably 6 years ago or something, but I actually do think she's active? like I think she was touring just a year or two ago

LOVE IT

Okay bedtime now ❤️❤️❤️ ilu

good night hun <3