It's Wednesday, and if you work Monday through Friday, you might want something to help you punch through the middle of your week. Also, I've been giving a lot of, perhaps undue favour to the 1980s. The songs I grew up with. I got to thinking, maybe I should give some love to other decades as well, especially since, while the average Lemmy user might be older than the average Reddit user, I think I'm still older than the average user of any social network (except, perhaps save for newsgroups).

I'm not sure if I'd say the 2000s were my second favourite decade of music, but the music then is when my wife and I got together and we got married and started our lives together. A lot of stuff happened then. For a lot of social media users, this was their childhood, like the 1980s were to me. I think my second favourite decade for music was the 1990s, though I did not like grunge. On the flip side, R&B got way better in the 90s. Rap music got a lot more refined. 90s country was even pretty good. And while metal kind of faded out, alternative/post-grunge got big, so it was a good time overall.

Anyway, Rise Above This feels like an upbeat, inspirational song, but he's actually talking about some deep shit. I remember looking it up and... it wasn't good. Something to do with the singer's brother, I think. He's saying he wanted his brother to rise above what was bothering him, something like that. But I still think of it as a happy (ish?) song. I hope it helps you get through the middle of the week and closer to the weekend.