8
Sep
so don’t you lose sight of me now
(or: september 8’s honey from the hive)
posted at 1:31 pm by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Chantal Kreviazuk — “Surrounded”
(from Under These Rocks and Stones
Another discussion for another day is why, in spite of her status as a go-to writer of agile, dependably catchy pop tunes (her work has been snapped up by the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Gwen Stefani, even my beloved Hilary Duff), the magnificent Kreviazuk has never — at least not here in the States, despite having crafted four exquisite, exhilarating albums — become the megastar she has always, always deserved to be. This one — a wrenching portrait of a best friend’s senseless suicide — knocked me flat when I first heard it thirteen years ago, and it still gets me where I live. Every time.
