Maybe it has to do with that I just finished Rob Sheffield’s book Love Is A Mixtape. Maybe it’s cause I’m a musician. Maybe it’s cause I have an obsession with how people meet. Maybe it reminds me of a guy or guys I used to date. But there is something I love about the lyrics of Michelle Branch’s new single “Loud Music.”
Branch may be back to Pop music from Country, but the specificity usually found in Country music remains. There are so many lines and images I love:
“You take a dag off your cigarette/And drivin’ too fast with some Zeppelin on”
“You know you had me at ‘cool t-shirt, babe’/I said I wished that I’d seen Hendrix play/You took me home to see your new guitar/Turning it up, shook me all night long.”
“It was like my life began that day/I still remember what the jukebox started to play/And then we had to take it on the road/Start me up like a Rolling Stone”
Maybe I’m obsessed with the concept of what love looks like. I don’t really know. But Branch paints and sounds these images, and they describe love in a way that I understand – through music. Love is Loud Music.
