here they are:
"Care" by Beabadoobee: First off, let's get one thing straight. If you're having trouble pronouncing the stage name of this musician, just pretend you're scatting. It's literally "Bee-yah-bah-doo-bee". Anyway, if you're getting Alanis Morissette or Garbage type of vibes from Beabadoobee's breakthrough summer hit, "Care", Beatrice Kristi Laus (a.k.a. Beabadoobee) claims that this was intentional. It was supposed to sound like the ending song of a '90s coming-of-age movie. As for the lyrics of the song, those are definitely more millennial than they are reflective of the '90s. The song basically came about as a result of being in lockdown, and how Laus wants people to understand that getting through it has been difficult. "Care" is also directed at how ignorant society can be in general towards people with specific mental and/or psychological problems. However, she does not want people to feel sorry for her. As someone with such problems myself, I feel like I can identify with her. I don't want people feeling "sorry" that I have Asperger syndrome. I just want people to know what it's like! I think this song can speak for many people out there who feel misunderstood, including a lot of my closest friends!
"Five More Minutes" by The War and Treaty: The three and a half minutes of The War and Treaty's "Five More Minutes" are soulful, as one might expect from the Nashville husband-and-wife duo. The soulful flavor of this song differs a little bit from "Are You Ready to Love Me?", the only other song I've heard so far from The War and Treaty. Where that song was kind of a country/soul combo, "Five More Minutes" seems like pure Memphis soul (even though it was recorded in Nashville)! Elements of musicians like Otis Redding and Booker T. Washington can be heard in "Five More Minutes". The song is a short but passionate plea for romance that rejuvenates and cleanses the spirit in a way that only good ol' Southern soul music can do!
"Patience" by Chris Cornell: As one of the leaders of the grunge movement, it should come as no surprise that the late Chris Cornell was a Guns 'N' Roses fan. This song is a cover of one of the few acoustic rock songs in G 'N' R's career, released posthumously, as Chris Cornell has not been around since summer of 2017. "Patience" is probably one of the few truly sincere songs in the G 'N' R catalog, although "Sweet Child O' Mine", a love song written about Erin Everly (whose dad was Don from '50s country-rock group, The Everly Brothers), comes close. "Patience" is not a love song, though. It is simply a song that tries to offer hope in times of darkness. As Chris Cornell is but a rock and roll ghost as of now (and he's performing a cover of a song over 30 years old), there is no way that "Patience" could possibly be about the pandemic we're currently going through, but it is one of many songs that can give us hope during this time! This song could not have been released at a better time!
"Scarlet" by The Rolling Stones (featuring Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page): It seems as though The Rolling Stones have decided to start this decade off in a similar way to how they started the last one - by releasing a song from one of their classic albums that was previously unavailable on said album! In 2010, they unveiled "Plundered My Soul", an outtake from "Exile on Main Street". Ten years later, they have released "Scarlet", a previously unreleased track from their 1973 album, "Goat's Head Soup". With help from Led Zeppelin's ace guitarist, Jimmy Page, The Stones have unleashed yet another boozy, bluesy rocker about a girl who "wears her heart on (Mick Jagger)'s sleeve." Seems like one of the many notorious Stones songs that aren't exactly favorable towards women as far as the lyrics are concerned, but darn it all if any aspiring electric guitarist doesn't wanna rock out to this tune! "Scarlet" is a crackling, fiery tune, just as its title suggests that it is!
