Year 6, Day 235

Good Morning! Today's song is Come by Jain.

Jain is Jeanne Galice, a French musician active since 2013. So shout out to France today. She did a lot of traveling as a kid with her family and learned all kinds of music along the way in her travel around the UAE, the Pyrenees, and the Congo. She started posting music on MySpace which got her noticed by her future manager and an artist called Yodelice who helped start her career. He invited her to support him on his tour, and they even went on a TV show together to perform a duet. He helped produce her first EP which came out in 2015, just before she released her debut album the same year. The next year she was a nominee at the Victoires de la Musique Awards, and she released a deluxe version of her album with some new material on it. She did some TV spots and a festival in 2017 while releasing songs on YouTube. She performed at Coachella last year so I'm sure that got her even more exposure then before, and it is well earned. So check out her song and I hope you like it.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 234

Good Morning! Today's song is Sorry I'm Not Sorry by Tessa Violet.

Tessa Violet Williams has been active since 2013, but originally in 2007 she was known as Meekakitty and was a YouTube Vlogger while working as a model in Hong Kong and Thailand. She quit modeling in 2009 and moved to New York, then won a YouTube competition with one of her videos. In 2011 she was in Nanalew's fan video of Sail, which went viral. She started her music in 2013, with her channel switching from covers to original songs. Her first album came out in 2014, then released an EP in 2016. She was supposed to released her next album in 2018, but she had other projects that delayed it, until she released an EP in 2019. The album then came out later in the year. She's done some collaborations with other people too along the way, but I wont get into all of those. This song honestly I saved because it reminds me of how I feel about my sister when she pisses me off. I'm not fighting with her right now, but I still think it's pretty dead on. Anyway, hope you like it.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 233

Good Morning! Today's song is Everybody Wants To Love You by Japanese Breakfast.

Japanese Breakfast is the pseudonym for Michelle Zauner whose been active since 2013. She chose that name because Japanese culture was the closest she had to her Korean culture growing up in America. It's also meant to be a "juxtaposition of Asian exoticism and American culture." Before starting this she also went by the moniker Little Girl, Big Spoon. She fronted an indie band called Post Post, then an emo band called Little Big League from 2011 to 2014 before moving back home. That's when she starting playing around with her own music, releasing her first album as Japanese Breakfast in 2016. She was signed to a label shortly after, and released her second album in 2017. She released two singles last year, so I'm sure we'll hear more from her soon. Enjoy!

Peace.

Year 6, Day 232

Good Morning! Today's song is Criminal by Ash Koley.

This is actually a group from Winnipeg and made up of Ashley Michelle Koley and Phil Deschambault. They've been around since 2004 when the two of them met and found they had good chemistry to work together. Before that, Ashley was in a singing group called Prodigy, and an ABBA tribute band called Super Trooper. They got signed in 2009, and have released five EP's and two studio albums since then, the most recent from 2016. This song in particular was released in 2014, and I've been saving it to use for awhile. Today just seemed right. Hope you enjoy it!

Peace.

Year 6, Day 231

Good Morning! Today's song is Merry Go Round by Suzie McNeil.

Suzie McNeil is a Canadian singer active since 2005. She started out as a contestant on Rock Star: INSX where he came in fourth, then moved to LA and started working on her first album. She supported Pink and her tour in 2006, then her single came out and became big in 2007. Her debut album came out the same year, and a song from it was used to promote a fundraiser for the 2010 Winter Olympics. She toured in 2008, then was a judge on The Next Star, a Canadian talent search, before releasing her second album. She performed at the superbowl in 2008, then headlined an Earth Hour concert in 2009, before starting to release songs for her next album individually onto YouTube in 2010. This song was part of that, and was released in 2011, then the album officially came out in 2012. She released a Christmas album the same year, then started a band with some other people called Loving Mary in 2013. She was said to have already finished a fourth album set to release, but I don't see anything about that anywhere, so I'm not sure if she's still around. Go find out if you're curious.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 230

Good Morning! Today's song is Wide Awake by Katy Perry.

Ugh. I went to the doctor's today and again she made me feel like utter shit and judged me more than my father... which is really saying something. I thought I could stick it out, because at least something was being done, but no. It's a pretty common problem was doctors to write people off as faking it or exaggerating, especially in young women with anxiety issues, and I don't want to be another cautionary tale where my doctor wouldn't listen and then I ended up in the emergency room with something that could have been fixed easily if caught early. I'm feeling frustrated and defeated, so I need to word vomit it out. But this is a good chance for me to encourage everyone else here that if you are in a similar situation, whether doctor, dentist, lawyer, etc., that while they might be "professionals," they don't know your life and are basing their judgement on maybe five minutes of content about you. While their opinion is appreciated and sought, it's not an ultimatum on you, trust your own judgement. If it feels wrong, it probably is. Good luck to you guys, and wish me some too because now I'm going doctor hunting. Thank god there is an online directory now.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 229

Good Morning! Today's song is Thunder by Imagine Dragons.

So I've had this song saved for so long because I needed to get to the point where I could listen to it again. The first time I heard it, was when I was reading the Fallen book series by Lauren Kate (which is phenomenally better than the one movie they tried to make of it). It seemed to fit with the story so well, in a way no other song was, so naturally me being a weirdo I literally played that on repeat for hours while I finished the series. I love the song, but after that I needed to have a bit of a break from it. But now I'm good, and I feel like some Imagine Dragons. Hope you enjoy it.

Peace.