King of received music

Gah, I have such an epic post title and I know - I just have this feeling that I won't be able to live up to it. Today's song of the day is related to positivity, and I must keep as such, however.

Enough fluff.

Today's song of the day is particularly special to me because I remember the moment I first listened to it. It's a song that was sent to me, back in the mid-2000s, by a "Weston" friend (the "other" secondary school).

I don't really feel like being nostalgic at the moment so I won't go into all the details of how I got this particular track through MSN, and how MSN was a main driver of new music discovery for me (and was SO much better than the artificial playlist streaming crap we have today). Think of it like MTV, but for the dawn of the internet age.

ANYWAY #2.

Here is Jimmy Eat World's The Middle.

Infinitely sheltered

This song has been stuck in my head for a couple days. I cannot believe it's already 7 years old... and just like the rest of the YouTube commenters, I am assailed by the barrage of infinite content and the passage of time.

and because sub 2-min songs don't really satisfy me (in much the same way that YouTube Shorts or TikToks don't), here's a more cheerful (but forlorn) track that's also been stuck in my head. I don't really know who Porter Robinson is, but Madeon came out with Pop Culture in the early 2010s and if you've been following the internet, you should remember it as one of the most important "mashups" of all time.