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    <title>article #MusicMonday Review - December 2020 in The Blog Vault</title>
    <link>https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-December-2020/ba-p/5131062</link>
    <description>&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/musicmonday" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;#MusicMonday&lt;/A&gt; &lt;EM&gt;is the hashtag&amp;nbsp;I've been using for quite a while to share music recommendations from up-and-coming artists. Always fresh, and always different, trying to look for trends before they become one. You can check&lt;/EM&gt; &lt;A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-November-2020/ba-p/5079232" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;November's review&lt;/A&gt; &lt;EM&gt;for more music.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;This is it, the end of a difficult year. This month's releases reflect on it, with some tough subjects in hand. Let's have a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:"&gt;🎧&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Backwards Charm - Funereal Dreams&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="BackwardsCharm.jpg" style="width: 315px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/124983iB1B6F9315F5098B5/image-dimensions/315x315?v=v2" width="315" height="315" role="button" title="BackwardsCharm.jpg" alt="BackwardsCharm.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Tell me how do you see&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Kindness in this cruelty&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;When anyone talks to me&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Almost all I hear's funeral dreams&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;Vienna, Austria give us our first band performing a dark indie pop track about the current state of humanity&lt;/SPAN&gt;:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;"I wouldn't say that I wrote the lyrics in reminiscence of a particular past experience of mine. It's really more of an overall observation of how - although we're all made from the same fabric - we more and more lose touch of basic human traits and emotions, such as understanding, kindness and empathy, for instance. Not trying to render the lyrics' poetic qualities into a formal essay here, but I guess the last remaining bit of "human-good" is portrayed as soon-to-be-extinct, endangered by all the wrongs which seemingly take the upper hand.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;And I guess what comes with that is additionally the gloomy forecast of the future and present, as perceived or thought of by the receiving-responding persona in the lyrics"&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="spotify:track:7j3Uc0o3tc8oL3AphBpZq8:small" target="_self"&gt;spotify:track:7j3Uc0o3tc8oL3AphBpZq8:small&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;DIYÂ - Go Away from My Head&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="DIYA.jpg" style="width: 223px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/124984iD03865A43EBBD2C7/image-dimensions/223x347?v=v2" width="223" height="347" role="button" title="DIYA.jpg" alt="DIYA.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Go away from my head&lt;BR /&gt;I don't want to remember the sound of your breath&lt;BR /&gt;Give me chance to forget&lt;BR /&gt;I hope there's no feeling left to regret&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;Straight from Dubai, Ukrainian singer DIYÂ offers us an EDM influenced Pop track perfect to dance away 2020&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;"You know some time right before falling asleep we think of some past action and start questioning our decisions. And sometimes one of those ideas just gets stuck!&amp;nbsp; It’s so frustrating.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;This song was my way of expressing that what’s done is done and is over - time to move ahead. Replace those not so great experiences with something better. They have to leave my mind space for new to come in."&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="spotify:track:7uSRXLCq3yHawpq170jpMc:small" target="_self"&gt;spotify:track:7uSRXLCq3yHawpq170jpMc:small&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Mariachi Las Adelitas - Cumbia Adelita&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="LasAdelitas.jpg" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/124985iAB21EDA6831E8632/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="LasAdelitas.jpg" alt="LasAdelitas.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Pon tus pies donde tu corazón te diga&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Y verás la realidad con la fantasía&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Para que cargar tus shoulders con escombros&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Agita el cuerpo and charge your soul&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Nobody can't stop you corazón&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;For the first time, a regional mexican track gets to be featured, and what a track it is. UK based, all female band, Las Adelitas, brings us that invigorating Mariachi flavor worthy of a few shots of tequila:&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;"I was planning to write a love song but soon realised it would have been&amp;nbsp;cathartic,&amp;nbsp;so I decided to change direction for the benefit of the band! Writing about the&amp;nbsp;Adelitas&amp;nbsp;turned out to be empowering and uplifting. It’s a song filled with love, strength, joy and the pride of being a Latina."&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="spotify:track:6cNNGw8aWVNF37QUGoz3hH:small" target="_self"&gt;spotify:track:6cNNGw8aWVNF37QUGoz3hH:small&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;#MusicMonday 2020&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P class="lia-align-justify"&gt;We say goodbye to 2020 with this year's compilation. 104 titles from original artists covering plenty of different genres, all representing the multiple trends independent artists are proud to establish&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;. Have a listen:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="spotify:playlist:6njYrx7S1nuuZAJ25YMmg9:small" target="_self"&gt;spotify:playlist:6njYrx7S1nuuZAJ25YMmg9:small&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Preview 2021 and much more on the complete Playlist&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self"&gt;spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;See you next month!&lt;/P&gt;
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>osornios</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-06-29T22:28:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>#MusicMonday Review - December 2020</title>
      <link>https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-December-2020/ba-p/5131062</link>
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      <dc:creator>osornios</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-29T22:28:27Z</dc:date>
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