NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

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 brings 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 to 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 is

  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.

The '80s revival has been going on since the mid '00s. The '90s revival has taken longer to catch on. Sure, the songs in my Pseudo '90s hits collection range from early '00s tracks that seem to be just a few years shy of the Third Eye Blind alternative rock sound, but I tried to focus more on tracks in the recent years that are slowly bring back the elements of boy bands and over-produced bubble gum pop; post-grunge chords progressions; and early '90s sax solos. Hope you enjoy this one!  

If you make a list of the most iconic singer-songwriters, the list would include all of  Ed Sheeran 's influences. In fact, many would have had no problem putting Ed Sheeran on that list, if it weren't for his huge mainstream pop hit " Shape of You ." If it weren't for the 2017 song, Ed Sheeran would still have been a driving force in the music industry, penning verses for pop artists and singing semi-acoustic ballads and rapping a few bars here and there. Some listeners are still scarred from the repetitive chorus with its contrived masculine rhyme, so much so that they would prefer not to hear the song's follow up. It's unfortunate enough that I couldn't take songs like " Perfect " or " Castle on the Hill " seriously. And when Ed Sheeran announced that he was back in June of last year, I was less than thrilled. But in September, thanks to musical algorithms, AppleMusic played " Shivers " when playing similar songs to  Ja