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"[Music] deserves respect for coming out of authentic human emotions: anxiety, sentimentality, infatuation, identification."
~ Ben Ratliff "Every Song Ever" Chapt. 10 pg. 112

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Collecting music is how we backtrack and relive bodies of music

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AJR are one of the many artists that I've built a relationship with through their music

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AJR are one of the many artists that I've built a relationship with through their music

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This is: AJR. The essential tracks, all in one playlist.

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As humans, we have this almost instinct nature to collect things in order to prolong their longevity. Why we do this is to create our own relationship to the subject so that it has meaning to us. This works great with music. When an artist releases their masterworks, one will give the album a listen, decide they like/love it, and proceed to listen, analyze and worship the artist. In Ratliff’s chapter, he talks about how we want to develop a relationship with music like we would with friends. And like our real-life relationships, our connection to music can be clean, short, and ruthless. We want to try to know everything there is to know about what can’t completely be known. Ratliff uses the band the Grateful Dead to explain this concept. Since this band has been around for quite some time and the age we live in allows us to backtrack to hundreds of their songs, someone could discover one of their songs and fall completely in love. They will proceed to try and listen to the band’s entire repertoire, which would take forever, and what to know everything they can about how the songs were written, about the artists, and any other media they can get their hands on to create their own unique relationship with a band that no longer exists. I do this too with my favorite artist AJR. I have listened to all of their songs, watched every interview, and even went to their concert and met them. This was my way of creating a connection to them because their music made me feel like myself and brought out emotions that no other artist could.

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A connection between an artist and their audience

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"Create, document, move on. Let the audience establish its relationship to your work. That takes care of itself."
~ Ben Ratliff "Every Song Ever" Chapt. 10 pg.120

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Prince was used as one of Ratliff's examples of how an audience creates a relationship with music and its artist

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Prince was used as one of Ratliff's examples of how an audience creates a relationship with music and its artist

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"...it is not to define oneself briefly within the music and get out. The point is to breathe and stay put...It's a relationship."
~ Ben Ratliff "Every Song Ever" Chapt. 10 pg.123