Housekeeping

Just getting some things out of the way

I know I said there would be no posts in January, but wanted to give a quick update on what I’ve been working on this month before getting back to the regularly scheduled content starting in Feb.

Social accounts!

I’ve decided it’s time to join the 21st century and make social accounts for DBA. It’s something people have told me to do from the beginning, but I dreaded the idea of turning this thing I was doing for fun into being a social media manager. With the growth I’ve gotten in the last year though (including nearly 50 new subscribers since publishing my end of year lists!), I think it makes sense to separate the blog from my personal accounts. But since I’ve waited this long, I’ve missed out on a lot of followers on these pages. I’m behind so please show some love with follows if you like the blog!

DBA on Twitter!

DBA on Instagram!

Appreciate everyone who’s found and followed already, but it feels like I’m talking to myself so please follow and engage!

Playlists

I’ve cleared the same WIBLT playlist from last year in preparation to stock it up with fresh new songs all of 2022, so if you already subscribed/followed it last year, you’re good! If you haven’t yet, here’s a link. As with last year, it will be updated with 8 new songs from my bi-weekly ‘What I’ve Been Listening To’ posts all of 2022.

What I’ve Been Listening To, 2022 on Spotify and Apple Music

That being said, if you’d still like to hold onto/revisit the songs that were on the playlist from last year, I made a new archive version here that you can follow. This is the complete ‘What I’ve Been Listening To’ playlist from 2021, never again to be updated.

2021 WIBLT Archive on Spotify and Apple Music

As some of you know I also run another monthly playlist called ‘Some New Songs’ which updates on the first of each month with a fresh batch of tracks that dropped in the prior month. I completely fell off of updating that as 2021 came to a close, but will be more on top of it this year. I’ve changed the name of the playlist to ‘Hot Singles in your Area.’ Link below, fresh update coming Feb. 1st.

Hot Singles in your Area on Spotify and Apple Music

Mariah Carey Retrospective

I spent the beginning of my ‘winter break’ doing a full listen through of Mariah Carey’s catalog (most of which was for the first time), here’s my one listen rankings for anyone who cares

1. Emancipation of Mimi

2. Mariah Carey

3. Rainbow

4. Butterfly

5. Caution

6. Daydream

7. Glitter

8. E=MC^2

9. Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

10. Music Box

11. Emotions

12. Charmbracelet

13. Me I Am Mariah

Some observations

• 90% of the time, the first song is going to be the best song on a Mariah Carey album. She does not fuck around with track #1.

• I think Da Brat’s career just exists to feature on random Mariah songs.

• Caution has to be one of the best albums someone’s made nearly 30 years into their career.

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That’s all for now, first real post coming in February. Getting ready to go harder than ever all 2022, love you