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musing #1

 

holiday ready! 🎄



Estimated Reading Time: 3 min
Since starting this blog back in November (published in December), I have been quietly working on a couple of posts in between staying afloat at work. By the second week of December, I pretty much had to set all of my projects to the side to make room for my work duties, and ensuring everything is in place before my 3-week vacation. 

That said, I am looking forward to working on this surprise album post, but my work is very slow due to my vacation nails. As you can see from the image above, nothing about this set screams "I spend a good chunk of my time tapping keys", so though my work may be slow as a result of beauty, I shall trudge forward! I'll have plenty of time to focus on this project during the flight to visit my belle-famille (I prefer this term to "in-laws") anyway.

The CD booklet pictured is a hint as to the subject of this surprise album post. Recently, I have been going through my parents' basement after their move and stumbling upon a bunch of old treasures from childhood, including this album. Though it is available on streaming platforms, I forgot I ever listened to this album, so I truly haven't heard it since I packed it up some years ago. 

This album disrupts my current discourse as to which I think is —— ———'s best album. I only listened to a specific era of this artist's discography and refer to this period (1993-2007) alone; however, this classic slipped through my memory. 

How easily this album fell out of my memory goes to show just how little I thought of this artist's influence in my life. Truthfully, I grew up on their music and knew their name before I knew that of any other artist. As I grew up, I began exploring other genres, and didn't return until I re-discovered this album at that time. Just like this point in my life, my discovery then made me appreciate what ——— envisioned for the genre and for the culture, and their vision holds strong to this day. 

Therefore, this post is my way of giving ——— their flowers and paying homage to just how much their music shaped me.

I am looking forward to bringing this project into fruition and exploring one of my favorite albums of all time!

--mintyy
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