The First Challenge & Day One: A Song You Like With a Color in the Title

THE FIRST CHALLENGE 

As I begin this journey, I start with a 30 day challenge that involves an interest that's near and dear to my heart: music. Most of us have been listening to music for as long as we can remember. As we grow up, our music tastes evolve, and we come to create our own unique playlists that help get us through our lives. That's what makes a 30 day music challenge so interesting to me. In a way, by completing it, I will have created another one of these unique playlists that will, when completed, ultimately tell a small story. So, with that, here is the list I will be using over the next month:

DAY 1: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A COLOR IN THE TITLE

Mayday Parade "Black Cat"

Mayday Parade is a band I just kind of stumbled upon in high school, when I hit a pretty heavy punk rock phase. Nevertheless, the album this song comes from, "A Lesson in Romantics", is pretty solid all around. I've always interpreted "Black Cat" to be a song about a relationship that becomes suffocating over time. As the story goes on, jealousy gets in the way of something that seemed so good, and everything breaks down. I've jammed out to this song countless times over the years, especially on those days when I just didn't feel like dealing with people anymore. Whether it's due to a relationship or other things, we can certainly feel suffocated by life at times and all it throws at us. That being said, this is a good song to sing to and shake off some of those feelings.