While recently traipsing through random music looking for something new to put into my main rotation, I found Em Beihold. Now I’m not going to say that looking for new tunes to shove into my ear holes is boring or making me go numb. It doesn’t. What is driving me numb is the prepping several months of posts to my music website.
See, I’ve got at least 8 weeks of scheduled releases. But I’m a little behind on all the content and data that goes with them. Thus, as I’m working through the uploads to my distributor, getting all the words written and making the subsequent videos that go with each post, I am needing a little pick-me-up for my body. It’s been sitting on it’s ass for hours on end – which makes anyone’s ass go numb.
That’s where Em comes into play. Her song Numb Little Bug is a punchy piano driven spot of pop lunch that hits the spot. One of the recurring lines I’m hearing in the song that jumps out is “Do you ever get a little bit tired of life?” Mind you I don’t take pills to make me feel nothing – like the start of the music implies she’s done. But I can relate that on rare occasions it’s hard to not be a little tired of the same old shit.
One of the things I think Em has smartly done is opened the song with a unique sounding piano for her opening riff. Its one of the 12 things needed for a hit song. Another thing is her unique voice, she sounds like her and I’m not comparing her voice to someone else. The lyrics almost feel like a conversation with me as the listener. Plus they are clever which helps. Plus there’s some nice little breaks through the song. And the ending is bringing it full circle by ending with a sonic vibe that harkens back to the intro.
Luckily I’ve got a few more things I’m working on that are leading me down a new path for music. Plus there’s a road trip in the stars coming pretty soon. And on that road trip this song will be part of the sing-a-long tunes I’ll be packing with myself and my significant other. We don’t seem to tire of each other and that is a plus.
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