'Merica Notes

A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also death itself. This song is some form of a tribute to former guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose himself. Some believe that it is an attempt to communicate with Slovak, or even written from his perspective. Slovak, lead singer Anthony Kiedis, and Slovak’s replacement John Frusciante all suffered from heroin addiction, so this song could be from the point of view of any of them. The lyrics are somewhat cryptic, and hold multiple meanings as you would come to expect from Kiedis. The music video offers a little insight (although it can be just as confusing), as it seems to depict the story of a man in a hospital trying to fight off monsters before eventually passing at the end. The video gives a very nightmarish vibe, and is most likely using the monsters as symbols of addiction. Kiedis hi

With the release of the newest Avengers movie Avengers: Infinity War last week I thought it might be appropriate to include a soundtrack from one of Marvel's best movies "Guardians of the Galaxy", which in my opinion has the best movie soundtrack I've ever heard- with all 70's and 80's rock, pop, and a little country. Awesome Mix Vol. 2 is the soundtrack album for the Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Featuring songs present on Peter Quill's mixtape in the movie, the album was released on April 21st, 2017. Awesome Mix Vol. 2 was the United States' 8th best selling album of 2017 with over 600,000 copies sold.   For some, it brings back a sense of nostalgia, for others its simply a terrific playlist. I found both to be equally true. Songs like "Southern Nights" by Glen Campbell and "Mr Blue Sky" took me back to first listening to them in the 2000s with my father who was huge into to 70's and 80's rock and country

‘He’s not like a ‘rapper’ rapper,” the guy in the restaurant explains to his unimpressed girlfriend. “He’s like a ‘funny’ rapper.” Those two statements – true and open to debate respectively – are from the opening scene of the video to Lil Dicky’s Freaky Friday, which is this week’s UK No 1 single, and which currently sits at over 177 million views on Youtube, and will soon join its thriftiness-espousing predecessor $ave Dat Money in passing the same number of Spotify plays. Freaky Friday tells the story of Lil Dicky mystically swapping bodies with rapper Chris Brown. One of the top 10 in Billboard’s top 100 hits, Lil Dicky’s ‘Freaky Friday’ gave fans a humorous insight into the lives of big-time celebrities versus those of smaller artists. Several cameos in Freaky Friday are present including that of DJ Khaled, Ed Sheehan, and some Kardashian/Jenner puke. In essence, the two go around joyfully enjoying their new bodies, doing all the things the other could never originally do becaus