A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: U is for Understated

So much of the music scene is flashy. It's refreshing to find artists like young Hannah Trigwell, whose stripped-down performances focus on their music rather than on themselves. Sometimes an understated presentation is the most effective, because there is no splashy spectacle to detract from the delivery of the words and melody.

~DJ Helena~

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A to Z Blogging Challenge: S is for Sad Songs

 

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

S is for Sad Songs

by

DJ Tempest

 

Sad songs: pretty much without exception we've all hummed them. We've sung them in the shower as tears ran down our face (well, at least I have.) We've belted 'em out while driving along a back road, half thinking of running over the one who made us feel this way and half wishing we could be back with them no matter how horrible they were to us.

This song by Portuguese musician David Fonseca is the quintessential sad song. He sings about wasting love on someone who can't love him back, advises himself not to waste his tears. And yet it can't be helped. The song must be sung--sometimes many times over--before the healing can begin.

 

If you must sing a sad song, may it help you heal.

 

Peace,

DJ Tempest

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