The Pink Spiders aren't really proper punk, more pop punk, but punk is impossible not to love really, I mean clearly all it takes is the right introduction ;) awww i am glad you enjoyed it

I met PG in high school, the friend that I refused to disown, and that she went to and got to disown me, had been my best friend since we were 2. PG's brother was normal as, her parents were lovely too, I do think she was a psycho, she picked out a boy in the first few weeks of high school as her husband to be, and a lot of it was geared around him. He was from my village, so she had to become best friends with someone from the village to gain access to his mother. It was like a 14 year campaign of hard core heartless manipulation, but she did marry his last year. It was a horrible thing to go through and it did hurt a lot at the time, but I am glad it went that way, cos if i had played her game I would still be trapped in it, and I never would have met the people who mean the most to me now.

It should be a warning sign, one more people should recognize, that if a person tells you to cut others from your life, it's a serious flag that just goes unnoticed so often. That's one hell of a line though, that sharing and connection, it's amazing the emotions and memory that can get woven into a song and the depth that can be expressed in so few words when you start turning them over. I am glad you got your year, a year sounds so long when you ask for it, and so short when it's rushing by, and then looking back, a pool both endless, and over in a blink. Are you still in touch with her?

There is something so emotionally expressive is just singing, or shouting with no real tune in my case, the lyrics to songs, i know Reba McEntire but not that song, i will have to give it a go. But damn Tris, Voodoo, i know all too well, pretty much still know all the words! As if, i wonder if that would have been the same summer for us..? Probably! In fact, that Voodoo song always reminds me of going on the first date I ever went on with @johngreenfield, which was at his house drinking wine I hated and watching Dead Set cos i was done with meals and bars and all that shit. This was all of like, ten and a half years ago lol, but I can remember exactly what part of the town i walked through while it was playing cos the pressure was so high. I had put off going on dates with him for a few weeks, and instead went dates with guys who I kind of knew it wasn't going to work out with but seemed like fun for a bit, you know the type cage fighters, musicians who were sickeningly romantic, that bullshit, but i am a feral kind of girl, and I had met John doing an amazing impression of Matt Friction drenched in blood and sweat in a bar and could tell on a pheromone level I would fall hard. Voodoo made me feel in control, I'm not the one who's so far away, the idea of being under the influence of something, or playing with poison, but remaining in control, plus it was fun music to dance to haha so even though my friends were fairly certain John was going to be a murderer, off I went, listening to this again just took me right back to that memory of walking along the road, under the bridge, and pausing the song to knock on his door. He hasn't killed me yet lol.

It is amazing how much the background of what you listen to shapes your mood, a lot of lofi and Joji gets played in the house, and it's good, but man, Joji is so so depressing, it hurts my heart sometimes, it needs balance. I'm the same, the words can sink in so deep, and before I know it, I am getting all emotional over a story in a song. Country music can be a killer for that, Midnight in Montgomery got me so bad the first few times I heard it, bloody Tin Man! Damn. I make an effort to find songs that build me up, empower me, I have got into women like K. Flay more recently, people who want to change the world with good music like Grandson (who if you haven't heard of, I would highly recommend, and not just his music, his movement) you'll have to give me some more recommendations, I have the ones you have here lined up in case i get to play DJ at work today ;)

It is amazing how music can carry between people, how we can create these sounds, and they can bring with them so much more, and become embedded in these memories, and this has been the unexpected highlight of taking part in this <3

hahaha yeah, i would like to see anyone try and keep you stood with your back to the wall, that's one thing they forget when the create an outside, the outside is endless, and out here, the fun is endless ;)