Running in High Heels

Hello, everyone.

It has been over a month since I last posted, so I'll get down to business immediately.

I'll start with the new favourite song section, because it will be chock-full of songs. I have discovered the duo named Bomshell, whose debut album was named Fight Like a Girl. The title track is fabulous, but my very favourite is the one called "19 and Crazy." It's wild and up-beat and just plain catchy. Another song I absolutely love is Lee Brice's "Love Like Crazy." (What's with the 'crazy'?) It is phenomenal. In SO many ways. Next, and if I remember correctly, I mentioned the radio station WYNK 101.5 a while back. This station has afforded me an insane amount of new music. I made the live player my homepage: http://www.wynk.com/mediaplayer/?station=WYNK-FM&action=listenlive&channel_title=. Songs like Rascal Flatts' "These Days" and "Unstoppable"; David Nail's "Red Light"; Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten"; "Good Directions," by Billy Currington; "Sideways" by Dierks Bentley; Gary Allan's "Today," "Watching Airplanes," and "Nothing On But the Radio"; Eric Church's "Hell on the Heart"; "How Do You Like Me Now?" by Toby Keith (yeah, I know); and Craig Morgan's "This Ain't Nothin'," among others. I would also like to highlight the song that is number 1 in the country and on the country charts, "A Little More Country Than That," by Easton Corbin. If you want a good laugh, check out the music video which, of course, isn't meant to be funny, but if you want to hear a really great song, listen to the song without the video. If you want a video that is multiple times better than the song, check out Josh Turner's "Why Don't We Just Dance." The video is fabulous. I've also recently rediscovered the magic that is Kenny Chesney. And more specifically, "The Good Stuff," "There Goes My Life," "How Forever Feels," and "I Go Back." He is a bona fide superstar. In so many ways. The Zac Brown Band is another artist that I've discovered, and I can't believe that I lived as long as I had in completely ignorance of their talent and their beautiful songs. Of course, they're a really new band, but you get my drift. "Highway 20 Ride" still makes me cry (my favourite part? 'it was the pleasure of my life / and I cherish all the times / and my whole world, it begins and ends with you / on this highway 20 ride'...), and "Chicken Fried" was their first single and I know why - it's catchy and really turns you onto the band. I'm pretty sure there are so many other songs that I'm ignoring.

In other news, the ACM Award nominations have been released, and the show will be April 18th. Here's the link: http://www.acmcountry.com/awards/nominees.php. There will, again, be fan-voted categories, namely the Entertainer of the Year (nominees: Kenney Chesney, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, the Zac Brown Band) and Best New Artist. The nominees for Best New Artist were also fan-voted, from the winners of the categories of Top New Vocal Duo, Top New Solo Vocalist, and Top New Vocal Group. These were, respectively, Joey & Rory, Luke Bryan, and Gloriana. Voting for the other fan-voted awards starts April 1. I will not tell you for whom I will be voting, but if you've been reading this blog at all, I think you already know. I just don't want to sway you, but I do encourage you to vote.

I'm probably ignoring a month's worth of country music news, but that'll just have to wait for now, because I can't remember right now. But don't worry, I'll have another post in a few days anyway. Yup, that's right, I have finished a few songs, not just one. I feel accomplished - and I also want to reach 19 posts for this year as well, to keep the trend going.

So, onto today's song. I first conceived the notion of this song last May. May 2009. This is because...I was running in high heels at the time! Surprise, surprise. And it was raining, hence that part of the song. Or at least the ground was wet. And as I was running, I realised, despite my prowess at the activity, how freakin' hard it is to run in high heels. Especially if at the time you're wearing clothes that you're trying your best not to destroy, or at the very least, muss up because you still have to wear them at a function later that evening. So there are the circumstances in which the song was conceived. Then I was slightly reminded of one of my favuorite Doc Walker songs, "Driving with the Brakes On," which - allow me to go on a tangent here - I recently discovered is not even their song. It was written by some other guy who recorded it and had it as his single, so the Doc Walker song is just a cover of it, which kind of diminishes the power and weight of the song, but it shouldn't, because the Doc Walker version is equally good as the other guy's version. In fact, it's better. But I digress. I was reminded of "Driving with the Brakes On," and decided to model the rhyming patterns of their song in mine. (But, as it turns out, I did a better job, because the rhyming pattern in "Driving with the Brakes On" is only in the first verse, and the second verse is sporadic rhyming. This is probably because Doc Walker didn't write the song themselves.) And then I occasionally thought of the song from time to time, feeling guilty since I liked the idea of it but I hadn't actually done anything to further it. And then I thought of one angle of the song. And then I lost the paper on which I wrote that angle, so I abandoned that idea. And I picked up this version about two weeks ago, and really concentrated on getting the song to completion, which I finally managed to achieve yesterday.

So, here is:

Running In High Heels

we are walking hand-in-hand
just talking and it starts to rain
but we're together again
sometimes he thinks I'm too nice
I say that he's not right, well who knows
it's just goes to show

CHORUS:
when you're running in high heels
it's hard to get where you wanna be
when there's rain beneath your shoes
you gotta fight the fights you choose

we've been together three years
conquering all our fears and people's doubts
yeah, we've shut them out
those against us might've been right
but I don't wanna lose sight of what we've got
'cause it's a lot

CHORUS:
oh, when you're running in high heels
it's hard to get where you wanna be
when there's rain beneath your shoes
you gotta fight the fights you choose

yeah, when you're running in high heels

BRIDGE:
but we'll never say goodbye
cause we've always gotten by
and I'm gonna want you forever by my side

CHORUS:
and when you're running in high heels
it's hard to get where you wanna be
when there's rain beneath your shoes
you gotta fight the fights you choose

when you're running in high heels
yeah, running in high heels...

Here's a challenge for you. Try to figure out the rhyming pattern that I used. I really like it, and it tangentially reminds me of the one in "Call This Home." And if you're not sure what 'running in high heels' means, explain to me what 'driving with the brakes on' is a metaphor for, and then we can talk. I know what it means for me, but it might connote something different for everyone else.

I hope you like it, I'm really happy with this one.

Much love, and thank you for the musik!

NBK

p.s. Tonight the Devils can clinch a playoff spot with a win over the Canadiens! Actually, they only need one point, but it would be really nice to get a win, too. To be honest with you, they don't even need a point, they just need the Thrashers to lose tonight, but hey, I'd like to see them win against the Canadiens. With a hattrick by Travis Zajac. Life is good.