New Music Favorites Right Now
Happy Sunday friends! It’s a hot one in North Carolina today - not even 10AM and it already feels like 90 degrees. I’m out on the patio this morning, having a little coffee and getting some work done, while Alex landscapes a spot for our new grill. It’s going to be a 100+ degree day today. Sounds like a perfect day to chill inside and listen to the sweet sound of the air conditioning.
In today’s post, I wanted to share my “Newish” new music playlist with you; the playlist is a collection of songs released throughout 2019 that I’ve been jamming to recently. The playlist covers a little bit of everything - country, pop, alternative, you name it. I will highlight a few of my favorites below, but you can listen to the entire playlist by clicking the link above to open in Spotify.
A Song for Everything. Maren Morris is one of my favorite country singers right now. A Song for Everything is beautifully written to remind you that every moment you’ve experienced, every emotion you’ve felt, and every mistake you’ve ever made can be found in the music if you listen closely. I can think of a hundred songs that tell the stories of my life. Music is amazing in that way.
What If I Never Get Over You. A classic Lady Antebellum heartbreak duet always finds its way to hold my heart hostage. How could this song not make it on a list of my 2019 favorites? This is Lady Antebellum at their finest, singing a song that crescendos to a bridge of feelings everyone can relate to: “What if it never gets better? What if this lasts forever and ever and ever?”… so good!
Old Town Road - Remix. I don’t know how anyone could not love this song. This is probably one of the most fun songs of the year; Alex and I listen and sing along to it just about every day. And who would have thought Billy Ray Cyrus would go hard, light it up, and bless our ears in 2019.
Adrenaline. Simple Creatures (aka the project of Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low) came out swinging in 2019. This song from the Strange Love EP takes me back to the pup/punk vibes I grew up on in the mid-2000s. I’m hoping more music in this genre starts to come back around in the next years; the imperfect, uptempo beats of pop/punk are unmatched in any genre of music today (opinion).
Happy Not Knowing. For those of you who don’t know Carly Rae Jepsen for more than her “Call Me Maybe” days, please listen to the albums Emotion and Dedicated. Carly Rae Jepsen is pop perfection, taking heartbreak and loneliness and flavoring it with synth-pop beats that almost make you feel like you’re listening to happy love songs. Happy Not Knowing reminds me of all the times when you overheard or read something you shouldn’t have and later on you were like “Yeah, I could have gone without knowing that”. High school vibes for sure.
Hope you enjoy!
JB