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Nevermind the Music

Six years ago, I started my album review of Kanye’s (sorry, Ye’s) Jesus is King with the line “I love Kanye. I love the old Kanye. I love the new Kanye”. Well, who would’ve thought that six years later we would be where we are now with the maverick artist? Unfortunately, Ye is just one of a litany of musicians afflicted, and often unsupported, with mental illness.

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Soundtrack to the Rollercoaster

I might not have a great memory regarding subjects like anatomy, but in the instances where I have irked my friends it is razor sharp. After acknowledging a particular band a friend liked (I think it was Simple Plan), I added that I used to listen to them in high school. Her resulting sigh and response was not what I expected. I didn’t mean it in a pretentious way. I just associate music with different times- a product of living with a song always in my head. So what songs and albums have been a part of my soundtrack?

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