Music Monday (97): Tinashe, Caravan Palace

   Rules:

• Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Lauren Stoolfire at Always Me that asks you to share one or two songs that you've recently enjoyed. For the rules, visit the page HERE 

Breana: It has been kind of busy on my end these past couple of weeks, and I’m finally getting back to participating in Music Monday. I’m currently listening to Tinashe’s new album, Songs For You. It’s a solid album, and I have to admit that this is my favorite body-of-work by Tinishe to date. The sound and the feel of it reminded me of some of Tinashe’s earlier music, as well as hip-hop and R&B from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Songs For You has so many good tracks to choose from—like Know Better, Life’s Too Short, Stormy Weather and Hopscotch, just to name a few—so it was a little hard to pick just one to focus on today. I ultimately went with two of my favorites: Save Room For Us and Story Of Us.

I enjoyed all of the songs from Songs For You mainly because of how well it demonstrated Tinashe’s vocal capability. Plus the lyrics and beats were excellent. I recommend giving the whole album a listen.

Adri: So, according to my 2019 Spotify Wrapped, I've listened to Caravan Palace for a total of 74 hours and my favorite song is About You. I can't dispute that, so About You featuring Charles X is my pick for today.

If you have Spotify, what was your most listened to song/artist/album? If not, what are you listening to this week?

Music Monday (94): Halloween Edition

   Rules:

• Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Lauren Stoolfire at Always Me that asks you to share one or two songs that you've recently enjoyed. For the rules, visit the page HERE 

Halloween is literally right around the corner. So it’s finally time for the Halloween Edition of Music Monday. To make it fun and different this year, we’re going to pick costumes (it doesn’t necessarily have to be related to what we’re dressing up as for Halloween, but it can be), and then we’re going to choose a song (or songs) that we think best represents our choices.

Breana: I’m not really dressing up this year, but if I was my costume would be a witch. So obviously, I had to pick I Put A Spell On You by Nina Simone as the song to go with it. I like the Hocus Pocus version, but Simone’s is one of my favorites.

Adri: My costume pick is a Hollywood Glamour tap dancer. I'm talking about one of those long, elaborate, glitzy dresses. Something like what Ginger Rogers would wear while dancing with Fred Astair. So my picks for today are Bambous by Caravan Palace and Swing Fever by Alice Francis. 

Andrea: I had to dress up as a pop star to attend a taping of a talk show recently. I chose to dress up as Pepa from Salt-N-Pepa. I've always loved the song Push It by this group and have spent many hours dancing to it. I will talk about how I constructed the costume in a later post.

So those are our picks. What is your Halloween costume? And what song do you think represents it? Let us know in the comments down below.