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AlyEuphoriaEvents:Try again.
MustLoveMusic:Fine.What about Midnight Vinyl?
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Not bad.Sounds vaguely seductive and doesn’t scream “please don’t book us.”
MustLoveMusic:That’s high praise coming from you.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Don’t let it go to your head.
MustLoveMusic:Too late.I’m already designing fake album covers in my head.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:As long as none of them involve fire, shirtless sax players, or doves.
MustLoveMusic:You’ve clearly been traumatized by ‘80s band flyers.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:I plan weddings.I’ve seen things.
MustLoveMusic:Now I’m curious.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:I once had a groom request a fog machine and red uplighting for a noon garden ceremony.He said he wanted the bride to walk down the aisle like it was “the opening act of a rock ballad.”
MustLoveMusic:Okay.That guy’s a legend.I want to meet him.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:He wore sunglasses during the vows.Indoors.In December.
MustLoveMusic:What about The Afterglow?
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Hmm.Romantic.Slightly moody.Not too embarrassing to print on a cocktail napkin.I’ll consider it.
MustLoveMusic:We’re making progress.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Maybe, but that can’t be the final cut.
MustLoveMusic:Okay, new idea.Champagne Reverb.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:God, no.It sounds like a perfume that gives you a headache.
MustLoveMusic:Or a band that opens for Seal.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Exactly.And you're not opening for Seal.You’ll be playing at a barn in Tacoma for a couple who think Everlong is a processional.
MustLoveMusic:...that’s kind of brilliant.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Only if you like crying before you make it to the altar.
MustLoveMusic:You don’t cry during Foo Fighters?
AlyEuphoriaEvents:Not unless I’ve been dumped or watching a late-night music video marathon.
MustLoveMusic:Right, songs wreck you and have you all magically whippy.
AlyEuphoriaEvents:You did not say that.
MustLoveMusic:Listen I don’t cry but Vienna wrecks me.There’s this line—“You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.”Billy Joel just says it with heart and hitting you right in the soul.
First time I heard it, I thought it was bullshit.I was fifteen, thought the world owed me applause.Thought success meant I’d finally stop feeling like I was running out of time.But that song ...it crept up on me.
You hear it when you’re young and it feels like a bullshit.You hear it again years later, and it feels like someone handing you mercy.
