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article #MusicMonday Review - May 2025 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2025/ba-p/6929546 <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/musicmonday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MusicMonday</A> <EM>is the hashtag 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</EM> <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-April-2025/ba-p/6919839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Proud of being in the forefront of music trends, we travel the world to feature, for the first time, an AI produced track, mixed with more bangers from around the world. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves.<SPAN class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:"><BR /></SPAN> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P> </P> <DIV><STRONG>Sabbir Khan Sohan – Under My Arms Tonight</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="SabbirKhanSohan.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/194952i6FB50685E2BDFF09/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="SabbirKhanSohan.jpg" alt="SabbirKhanSohan.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>City lights flicker, like your name in my mind</EM><BR /><EM>I swore I'd forget you, leave you behind</EM><BR /><EM>but every road I take leads back to you</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Maybe I'm losing this fight </EM></P> <P><EM>trying to keep you outside</EM><BR /><EM>But here you are back in my arms </EM></P> <P><EM>even though you're out of my mind</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf ocv3nf92 b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas f5mw3jnl ib8x7mpr k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6">Our trip around the world begins in Dhaka, Bangladesh for a ballad with a haunting Piano about those relationships that just won't end. Where every goodbye turns into a new hello:</SPAN><BR /></SPAN></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<EM>Under My Arms Tonight</EM> came from a very personal place. It was inspired by a feeling for someone special who parted away from me. I wanted to capture the emotions of love, longing, comfort, vulnerability. The track really embodies intimate, nostalgic, passionate, and I hope listeners can connect with that feeling in their own way."</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3pv2zDU58QpvvvJpnEq2XH:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3pv2zDU58QpvvvJpnEq2XH:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Nova Dream – Black Cinema</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="NovaDream.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/194953i9A7157881E678A5B/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="NovaDream.jpg" alt="NovaDream.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>We're on the brink again<BR />Something's really about to change</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x10flsy6 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x41vudc x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u">Let's take a huge jump to Dublin, Ireland for a dark Alt Rock track, with traces of Indie Rock and Post-Punk about how things blow away like ashes in a hurricane:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I think that Black Cinema was more of a metaphor for channeling the everyday inner thoughts of evolution and, perhaps, the existential reckoning of what has been, what is gone, and what is yet to come.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">It's purely based on personal experience and observing friends as they navigate life. I don't necessarily mean for it to sound bleak—it's more about self-reflection and how change is sometimes necessary to navigate life."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:07ldjfzN68ENyNj16izhiS:small" target="_self">spotify:track:07ldjfzN68ENyNj16izhiS:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <STRONG>Bad Valentines – Last Days In The Sun</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="Lyrics-sc-1bcc94c6-1 bzTABU" data-lyrics-container="true"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="BadValentines.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/194954i70B46DFCB718A5B7/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="BadValentines.jpg" alt="BadValentines.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>LOST BY THE GATES </EM><BR /><EM>LEADING NOWHERE</EM><BR /><EM>CAN YOU TURN BACK?</EM><BR /><EM>THERE'S WORLD OUT THERE</EM><BR /><EM>AND IT'S NOT ALL BAD</EM><BR /><EM>I HOPE YOU SURVIVE</EM><BR /><EM>THE EVIL WINDS BLOWING IN YOUR HEAD</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>DON'T SAY YOU'RE A LUNATIC LOSER</EM><BR /><EM>DON'T SAY YOU WERE BORN TO LOSE</EM><BR /><EM>DON'T THINK LIFE'S GOT NOTHING</EM><BR /><EM>FOR YOU</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1bwzh9t r-4qtqp9 r-poiln3 r-1b7u577 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserLocation"><SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">We travel now to Helsinki, Finland for an gritty Indie Rock track, with a touch of Punk Rock, about sliding into the dark, when life gets hard, and the burden is heavy:</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Last days in the sun is about battling depression.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />It is some kind of a message, positive one, that even in the baddest moments, there is hope.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P>I wrote this song cos I've been going thru some effing miserable times, and I know that many of my friends have been there, too.</P> <P><BR />That sh*t tends to always come back but like I said, I do and I wanna believe in positivity. At times it's effing hard, though."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:47PAdcGnZKjFUxuJTV9Thv:small" target="_self">spotify:track:47PAdcGnZKjFUxuJTV9Thv:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Volts Delicious – Ring the Alarm</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="VoltsDelicious..jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/194955iB5D8AB3380D3B19F/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="VoltsDelicious..jpg" alt="VoltsDelicious..jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>If you think that I am done</EM></P> <P><EM>Well then you got me all wrong</EM></P> <P><EM>It would be unwise</EM></P> <P><EM>To think my fight is all gone</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I remembered who I am</EM></P> <P><EM>And forgave my mistakes</EM></P> <P><EM>Now that they don't have a hold</EM></P> <P><EM>I can make my escape</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>You chained me with your lies</EM></P> <P><EM>I believed them all</EM></P> <P><EM>But I was set free when I found</EM></P> <P><EM>I'm not afraid to fall</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV> <P>Let's fly now to Denver, CO. for an uplifting Alt Rock track about raising up from the ashes of your past, ready to take on whatever comes next, free from the fear to fail:</P> <P> </P> <P>"The song wasn't inspired by a specific event or person, but rather by the feelings I was experiencing as I was entering my 30s.</P> <P> </P> <P>I was looking back at times when I was younger and felt like I had acted foolishly or made mistakes, but instead of feeling guilty for those moments like I had before, I began appreciating the experiences—loving myself and my decisions. It's a statement of strength, saying, 'Do you think I'm going to let the past hold me down? Well, you're wrong. I'm stronger than letting the past define me. You saw me when I was low, but that isn't who I am.</P> <P> </P> <P>That was just a moment I was going through. Now that I've let go of judgment and guilt, I'm an even stronger force—so watch out."</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:44zxL6X0y53mWT0Zlm8iYf:small" target="_self">spotify:track:44zxL6X0y53mWT0Zlm8iYf:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Coraland – Places I Go</STRONG></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="Coraland.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/194956iD855B4E69C229A45/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="Coraland.jpg" alt="Coraland.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>Winner to the world</EM><BR /><EM>Mirror to a lonely soul</EM></P> <P><EM>I'm medicine and fire</EM><BR /><EM>Running on the embers leaving</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>But even when I close my eyes</EM><BR /><EM>The sun can't slip away</EM><BR /><EM>I'm searching for a satellite</EM><BR /><EM>Far out somewhere</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>We end this month's trip in Gloucestershire, England for a Pop Rock track about the struggle of an inner battle with yourself, where sometimes you don't know how you'll escape from that place one more time:</P> </DIV> <DIV><BR /> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It was inspired by my experience of ADHD.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">It explores the challenges of trying to fit into society, inner battles, not belonging, but also the joys of having some creative magic that often comes with ADHD, and the quirks that come with it."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:6zgSzV2P6f8hL0lXVhH51P:small" target="_self">spotify:track:6zgSzV2P6f8hL0lXVhH51P:small</A> </P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlis</SPAN>t</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Mon, 26 May 2025 22:19:23 GMT osornios 2025-05-26T22:19:23Z #MusicMonday Review - May 2025 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2025/ba-p/6929546 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="music-blog.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/173766i39FAE7A484005229/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="music-blog.jpg" alt="music-blog.jpg" /></span></P> Mon, 26 May 2025 22:19:23 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2025/ba-p/6929546 osornios 2025-05-26T22:19:23Z