Music is a truly powerful thing. There's music to match EVERY mood possible. Music can celebrate with us "It's a celebration BITCHES!!!!" (Thanks, Kanye). Music can wallow with us "I'm too young to feel this old..." (Thanks, King of Leon). But what's must incredible is the way music can form our memories. Every Ludacris song immediately transforms me back to freshman year homecoming with "Ludashots" {aka the BIGGEST JELLO SHOTS EVER} and Chicken N Beer---oh the beginning of the Freshman
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Well today, in an attempt to procrastinate further from my law school studies, I decided to rewatch John Mayer's
Vh1 Storytellers ONDEMAND. Mayer opened the show with "No Such Thing" which is the first John Mayer song I ever heard. All of a sudden I was 16 year-old living in Room 306 in the Female Dormitory at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science. I had a smoking body--and didn't know it and hid it underneath baggy t-shirts and saggy-ass'd jeans. I lived with MB who was obsessed with John Mayer, Pete Yorn and Barry Zito. She believed that duck tape truly could fix
anything and even constructed purses and yes a SKIRT out of gray duck tape. She played John Mayer's debut album,
Room for Squares obsessively. I tried to pretend I didn't like it, but you can't fight John Mayer. He's just too damn good. I remember it all so vividly. Such a clear and powerful memory.
Its kind of like when we all had the projects when we were kids and you had to ask an older person, "Where were you when JFK or MLK was assassinated?" Songs bring me back to specific places. "No Such Thing" was the moment I discovered and completely fell in love with John Mayer. Because despite his douchey Twitter antics, John Mayer gets it. He writes incredible songs! He gets that even though I'm only 3 weeks shy of 24, its been a LONG TIME since 22. He, like me, wakes up every day trying to be the person who speaks when spoken to...and we both fail at that miserably. LOL. But perhaps most specially, I remember that "No Such Thing" was a good time in my life. I was living on my own--sort of. Doing my own laundry, going to bed when I felt like it, bouncing checks {hehe}. I was independent and it was so empowering.
"No Such Thing" marks the time in my life I began to grow up. Good memory.
