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4.61 AVERAGE
4.61 AVERAGE
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emotional
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A powerful set of essays. Such a wonderful way of talking about music and the lessons we can learn about ourselves as humans through music. Hanif's love of Midwest punk and pop punk has allowed to me to reconnect with that side of myself while also analyzing the background of that music: its issues with racism and misogyny, the feeling on being connected, discussing and encouraging emotion. Listening to the audiobook narrated by the author allows the author's poetry reading background to shine.
HANIF ABDURRAQIB AGREES CARLY RAE JEPSEN IS THE GREATEST POP STAR OF ALL TIME AND EMOTIONS IS THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
I probably would have liked this more as an audiobook or in 2017
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Weeks later, when it rains outside my apartment, I remember the chapter about Prince's half time superbowl show. My love for this book only grows as time goes on, and I am excited to reread it in a few years (and to read his other works).
Completely lives up to the hype.
Incredible writer, the poetic skill with which he shifts from what might be considered a more mundane approach to a mind-altering one. Like picking up a music review only to realize you're actually going on a journey with the author, into his life and into commentary about society and the music business.
Subject matter shifts somewhat as you get further into the collection and the essays get longer, though there is still a heavy presence of music, and also of addressing racism.
As such I might advise spacing out the reading experience, depending on your personal sensitivty to the subject matter, as the discussion regularly involves not just racism but racist violence.
Personal stand outs:
The Night Prince Walked in Water
The Return of the Loneliest Boys in Town
Brief Notes on Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want to Die
Fall Out Boy Forever
There is the Picture of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston on the Cheek
February 6, 2012
In the Summer of 1997, Everyone Took to the Streets in Shiny Suits
Nina Simone Was Very Black
August 9, 2014
Serena Williams and the Policing of Imagined Arrogance
They Will Speak Loudest of You After You've Gone
Johnny Cash Never Shot a Man in Reno. Or, The Migos: Nice Kids from the Suburbs
Surviving on Small Joys
⚠️Mention of suicide, racist violence, misogyny, death of parent, mention of child death
Incredible writer, the poetic skill with which he shifts from what might be considered a more mundane approach to a mind-altering one. Like picking up a music review only to realize you're actually going on a journey with the author, into his life and into commentary about society and the music business.
Subject matter shifts somewhat as you get further into the collection and the essays get longer, though there is still a heavy presence of music, and also of addressing racism.
As such I might advise spacing out the reading experience, depending on your personal sensitivty to the subject matter, as the discussion regularly involves not just racism but racist violence.
Personal stand outs:
The Night Prince Walked in Water
The Return of the Loneliest Boys in Town
Brief Notes on Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want to Die
Fall Out Boy Forever
There is the Picture of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston on the Cheek
February 6, 2012
In the Summer of 1997, Everyone Took to the Streets in Shiny Suits
Nina Simone Was Very Black
August 9, 2014
Serena Williams and the Policing of Imagined Arrogance
They Will Speak Loudest of You After You've Gone
Johnny Cash Never Shot a Man in Reno. Or, The Migos: Nice Kids from the Suburbs
Surviving on Small Joys
⚠️Mention of suicide, racist violence, misogyny, death of parent, mention of child death