Envy. Its one the of the seven deadly sins. You can be green with it. However, I’m not sure I’d like being green because then I’d look like the Incredible Hulk. Hmmm… maybe that’s not so bad. I’ll have to ponder that for a while sometime.
Its funny how the grass always seems to be greener somewhere else. Case in point. I often get a lot of musicians that think I’ve done extremely well. In all reality, I still feel like I haven’t succeeded. It’s all a matter of perspective. Yesterday I was talking about how I was having a downer of a day over the weekend. Well, as it turns out yesterday was a bit of a reversal on that. I was given news that I’ve been nominated for four Just Plain Folks awards. Which is another shot in the arm when its considered what it takes to get nominated.
You see the JPF awards are actually larger than any other music awards you’re presently familiar with. Larger in the amount of music they actually screen. Larger than the Grammys, the AMA’s, Billboard, etc… to put it in perspective the Grammys screen a few thousand CD’s/artists maybe. The JPF awards had over 25,000 CD’s entered this year. I believe they said it’s over 350,000 songs. That’s an insane amount of music that a vast majority of consumers never get to hear as most of it is independent. Now, consider that yours truly has garnered four nominations in separate categories. That’s pretty amazing all things considered. I got a Best College Rock Song for Falling In, Best Rock Instrumental for Tracking Motion, Best Rock Album for Practical Insanity, and Best Music Video for Falling In. There were two other songs that were cut out on the nomination round – All The Things and Tabloid Affair. If they had made it, it would have been 6.
I’m up against some other names that you may have heard like Vertical Horizon and even Seth Horan, whom I’ve spoken of here before. In that respect I’m being counted among great commercial talent, which is awesome. Now compound that with a statement I made yesterday about John Stack. Obviously I wish I were him. So you see, it’s all relative. You view me and my accomplishments. I view others and their accomplishments. Even Jeff Soto, my buddy who is now Journey’s lead singer. I see that as an amazing thing and certainly something that one could be envious of.
This song came to my attention a little while back. I can’t say for sure exactly why it is I took a liking to it. For upon superficial listening there are technical things that could be fixed in my producer mind. There was something there though that made me listen again. Some sort of magic. So I listened again, then again, and I’m realizing that I’ve listened to the song so many times that it has grown on me. To me that’s a very cool sign. It’s not often that you begin to listen to something over and over again by choice even though you’re not sure why. Usually you’re either forced by a radio playlist, or that you’ve instantly fallen in love with the ear candy or the song itself. I love when a song comes along and sneaks its way in and you keep discovering things about it. For this, I forego the prefectionist attitude I normally carry.
Another thing I dig is the clever that is portrayed. It is clever in the title “Nv” which equals envy. Then I feel the lyrics are interesting in that it’s talking about a lot of stuff that would be weird to envy. Like I said for reason it digs into me and makes me wonder and think. This is a welcome break that is needed now and then.
For that I say buy the song! Add it to your thinking-man’s collection of cool music to listen to. I find that this would likely fit as a lifestyle theme for driving on a deserted highway to some unknown destination, or maybe when you’ve got a group of friends over drinking wine and eating cheese. Make it a part of your lifestyle soundtrack. Besides I know I want to die with a shit-eating grin.