NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

Formed in 1992 as the house band for a series of UK youth outreach events called  The Cutting Edge ,  delirious?  became a full-time band after singer  Martin Smith  was hospitalized for several weeks after a car accident in 1995. Smith read Bill Flanagan's book  U2: At the End of the World ,  inspiring him to make the band a full-time career. The band released their second full-length studio album,  King of Fools ,  and their first under the moniker Delirious. The song " Deeper " hit the  UK pop charts , unexpectedly, peaking at number 20. The band would sign to  Sparrow Records  for their U.S. distribution, spanning several CCM and Christian Rock hits and helping to create the next generation of worship music. Delirious's music is usually worship, but they are a jam band at their core, particularly evidenced by their two follow-up records to  King of Fools,  Mezzamorphis   and  Glo .  The band writes anthems that sound like  U2 , but include electronic experimentati

Last Friday, Lauren Daigle returned with her first record since 2018’s blockbuster sophomore record, Look Up Child .  Daigle’s music has been featured in movies and television shows from Blade Runner 2049 to Grey’s Anatomy ,  which makes the singer stand out from other artists in her genre, Contemporary Christian Music, a genre she dominated with the number-one Christian song for sixty weeks for the crossover hit, “ You Say .” WE KNOW THE FUTURE’S BURNIN’ BRIGHT. Maybe like me, you spent a part of the ‘10s backsliding from your evangelical upbringing. Don’t worry, I’m not here to tell on you. You probably stopped listening to DC Talk and Michael W. Smith , and maybe became a “ Bad Christian ” with Emery , followed Michael Gungor ’s journey, or went full-out atheist like Underoath . Somewhere along the way, what was playing on Christian Radio sounded like a bad version of what was popular two years ago on the pop station, only mellower. Somewhere along the way, Hillsong and Bethel M

If "midnights become [ Taylor Swift 's] afternoons," then the 3 a. m. edition of Swift's latest album Midnights are the hours the singer starts winding down for the morning. Today's song, " Would've, Could've, Should've " comes from the Aaron Dessner -produced fan edition of Midnights, which tonally bring the singer back to her evermore era. In the promotion for Midnights, Taylor released a statement regarding the album's concept. She wrote in an Instagram post: " Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21." BUT, LORD, YOU MADE ME FEEL IMPORTANT.   Taylor Swift scheduled three nights in Nashville for this run of the Eras Tour. Playing in stadiums, Swift's shows have had be delayed or canceled due to weather; however, the last night of her Nashville show was delayed for four hours when a lightning storm hit the Nashville area and a shelter-in-place warning was issued.

  Years ago, I made a Sunny Day Mix for a girl I had a crush on after she made me a playlist of songs about rain. She called my playlist too mid-tempo, and I actually didn't like the music on her rainy day mix, either. It didn't work out, but I thought today, I'd make an updated my Sunshine Mix. And just so that it's not too mid-tempo, let's start it off with the slow sounds of beabadoobee . Same rules apply: one song per artist and one song name per artist. Enjoy!

Today we finally do it. We look at Harry Styles ' Fine Line track by track. So far, I've published three posts about Styles' 2019 record. This record set expectations high for last year's Harry's House , which has a higher Meta Critic rating but has also been criticized for its bi-polar nature between the beginning and ending of the record. I think that the dynamics on Fine Line are more evenly dispersed. To compare the two albums, I was surprised by the catchiness  and musicality of Fine Line, beginning my listening experience with Styles both unaware of his previous album and One Direction career and heavily biased against the former boy band singer--I've come around to both his eponymous record and One Direction career. Listening to  Harry's House, however, I brought my expectation from listening to Fine Line , but felt disappointed by the derivative sounds that the artist often used in One Direction. Keeping that in mind, let's appreciate Fine Li

  The Corrs  formed in their hometown of Dundulk, Ireland. Consisting of four siblings, the band started as a duo of the two eldest siblings and became a quartet in 1990. They got their start playing in their aunt's local pub, but after being discovered by their manager, the band started getting gigs in Dublin. In 1994, the band was asked to play for the World Cup in Boston after the US ambassador to Ireland say their show in a Dublin bar. In 1996, they played the Olympics and then they opened for  Céline Dion . The band's sound was rooted in Celtic folk music, but in their third album  In Blue   the band started to cross over into a mainstream pop sound. THE DAYLIGHT'S FADING SLOWLY.   To bring The Corrs into the new millennium, the band enlisted  Robert John "Mutt" Lange  to produce their third album. Lange’s mainstream success started when he produced  AC/DC ’s  Highway to Hell .  In the ‘80s he was known for his  Def Leopard  albums, but in the late ‘90s the p

  Today listening to the latest episode of Hit Parade , the episode about how Brit Pop showed great promise in America, but ultimately fizzled among the influx of new sounds in the '90s, it got me to pull on a thread I was curious about before: why is the city of Manchester such a prominent music town? Liverpool may have started the British invasion in the '60s, but it seems like the rival city of Manchester produced hit maker after hit maker. This playlist will pay homage to some of them.