I like to listen to artists whose songs mean a different thing to me every time I play it.
Jid is an artist I discovered last year January with the Surround Sound challenge and since then I've been on a slide of quality sounds, lyrics and tunes.
Later that year, I decided to listen to the album where the song Surround Sound came from and realized that it's an album of gold.
Since then it's an album that has continuously inspired my stories, posts, and art like how all good music does.
It's been a more than a year ago. I've listened to this album more than 30 times since then, listened to some songs more than triple that amount.
Yet here I am, a year and a half later, listening to a song from the album on my headphones by 12:46am on the night and still being moved by it.
The song is about the relationship between a pair of siblings, a brother and a sister. We listen to the brothers point of view, how he's trying to reach his sister after an argument about his life choices.
It's a very emotional listen and something that made me think of how many families have broken just like this.
Phonecalls left unanswered and messages not replied. The closeness of family is easy to write on paper but in real life it sometimes doesn't move past our nuclear family.
Then I start to think about it personally. I thought of the last time I spoke to my cousins, my uncles and aunts and what's going on with them.
"And I hate having to only see the family when something bad happens.."
This line in particular hit pretty hard home for me. How the family only comes together just for weddings and burials.
Texts are long replied and awkward, it's quite depressing.
It did motivate me to text my cousins though, and try and find another ones number.
I wonder how our lives would change from henceforth...
The things that happens due to midnight thoughts馃槀
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