What’s your favorite song about change?
I was lucky enough to catch Florence and her Machine at Glastonbury in 2015, the year they stood in for the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl broke his leg a couple of weeks before and as a Foo Fighters fan I was gutted, but a couple of hours later I was elated, dancing, singing, and in thrall with the whirling dervish with THAT voice who grabbed the audience and dragged us on a stunningly good live set.
What a voice, what passion, what stage presence, I quickly moved from ‘yeah I liked her album’ to ‘oh my god who is that force of nature, she is amazing!’.
But it’s not just the vocals or the music that keep this song in heavy rotation for me, it’s how it takes me through new beginnings —of which I’ve had a couple through my life— with an insistence. The horses are coming, joy is arriving so you’d better run as fast you can to keep up with it, run as fast as you can away from the dark dog days.
And yes, I’ve already mentioned this song, it clearly holds more meaning for me than even I realised.
“Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + the Machine
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