The Matt Nathanson Free Way!

My head's a stereo I can't turn off. You said I should learn to sing along.

My sentiments exactly when I listen to any Matt Nathanson song. I have been a fan ever since I listened to "I Saw" about four years back. I can say he is my all-time favourite singer and songwriter.

He has this genius-like ability to bring together unrelated words into a coherent string of poetic melody and that oozes raw energy from each and every word.

From "Farewell, December"

I felt alive, for the first time in my life.I held you tight, and the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne.

As a writer I love the "raw" energy that comes out of something that's done without inhibitions and boundaries. In his Facebook page Matt Nathanson says something that we should keep in mind every time we dare (or dream) to create.

music deserves more than that.
it deserves honesty, at all costs.
it deserves our uninhibited, weird selves.

So next time an inspirations makes it's way to you, bent by the gravity of skepticism and cowardice, don't ignore it but nurture it like your own baby.

Push me 'til I have to fly. I've shed my skin, my scars. Take me deep out past the lights. Where nothing dims these stars. Nothing dims these stars

Cheerio!