Prompt: "A song that was important to you last year"
Selected by Pam
"Anxiety"
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
The Nashville Sound, 2017
It's not so much that this song was important to me last year. But if I were to choose one word to describe my 2022, it would easily be "anxiety." Post-COVID pregnancy. Post-previous-pregnancy-issues (that I have theorized happened as a result of me having COVID) pregnancy. Literally everyone else in our household getting COVID that summer (shoutout to Dwyer's bachelor party, specifically patient zero: Lamson, and also to Busch Gardens!), and me successfully avoiding it! Wearing a mask everywhere. Crying during my first ultrasound of the pregnancy with Sophie. Not being able to lift anything due to placenta-related issues. Being hospitalized because of these same issues. Goddamn, I don't know how I made it through 2022, but it ended on a high note with our little Sophie completing our family in October of the year without issue. And she's seriously the best baby. She must have known how hellish my pregnancy with her truly was!
Nowadays, my anxiety is so much better (as a result of multiple things), but Jason Isbell really hits the nail on the head with this one. He is so gifted at using his songwriting to capture an emotion, and "Anxiety" is a stellar example of his work. I could use his songs for so many of these prompts (and this probably won't be the last time I do).
P.S. We recently watched the documentary Running with Our Eyes Closed, which is about Jason Isbell and his wife Amanda Shires. They have a young daughter, and during one part she asks her dad what songs he's going to play, and he rattles off a list of songs after telling her he'll play her favorites, "Anxiety" among them. Not that I think this four-year-old has anxiety, but it was just kind of adorable and funny that this pretty sad song is one of her favorites. Like when kids do or say adult things but don't even realize how funny it is... kind of like the same feeling when my niece says about her brother: "you can't trust him with a banana," and then he proceeds to take one bite and throw the rest in the trash (she wasn't wrong!), or when the TV freezes and Willow says in an absolutely drained tone, "well, it's always something..."
Nowadays, my anxiety is so much better (as a result of multiple things), but Jason Isbell really hits the nail on the head with this one. He is so gifted at using his songwriting to capture an emotion, and "Anxiety" is a stellar example of his work. I could use his songs for so many of these prompts (and this probably won't be the last time I do).
P.S. We recently watched the documentary Running with Our Eyes Closed, which is about Jason Isbell and his wife Amanda Shires. They have a young daughter, and during one part she asks her dad what songs he's going to play, and he rattles off a list of songs after telling her he'll play her favorites, "Anxiety" among them. Not that I think this four-year-old has anxiety, but it was just kind of adorable and funny that this pretty sad song is one of her favorites. Like when kids do or say adult things but don't even realize how funny it is... kind of like the same feeling when my niece says about her brother: "you can't trust him with a banana," and then he proceeds to take one bite and throw the rest in the trash (she wasn't wrong!), or when the TV freezes and Willow says in an absolutely drained tone, "well, it's always something..."
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