Monthly Archives June 2017

Song of the Week is from one of Canada’s best exports in music- Drake. Headlines is a great song taken from Take Care.  I personally feel in this song he feels as though he’s finally starting to reach the pinnacle of his success and is seeing a lot things come with it; but regardless feels the need to flexand show that he’s really ” the guy ” now. I remember hearing this song when I was living in the Netherlands five years ago jumping from tram to tram trying to get  to my destination. Not everything went perfect for me
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Thank you Craig for the email and your participation. Craig gave me a list of songs based off the song of the week post I did on Facebook.  I didn’t recognise any of his songs lol. Apart from one. I heard this song years ago on TV and I just immediately felt how deep this song was. The Journey are talking about different people from different walks of life and  how they’re all trying to be something/ or just progress from where they currently are. However they’re finding it’s not as easy as they think. But the Journey’s overarching message
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As someone who only listens to select few artists I’m very specific with what I listen to. I recently watched two films on Nina Simone- the recent Netflix documentary and the Hollywood film- the American soul superstar. The Hollywood film received a lot of backlash for race reasons but I thought it was a good film to watch. The film may not have done her legendary status complete justice but it is great  that productions are made to remember artists that inspire a whole generation after themselves. I don’t know if she would have known that the impact she had
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Whats Good. Been a minute. I haven’t done a blog in a long time. And I try to do it as often as I can to flesh out RMD a bit more. I was planning to do one on the 30th but then I started having serious pain in my abdomen. Not to go into specific details but I went to hospital had surgeryand now I’m currently on the mend. I was petrified because I never go to the hospital not even the GP because I’m never ill. But it was an experience. And made me realise the fragility of
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