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Listeners share the songs that moved them the most in 2023

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023. On this episode, we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.

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0:00.0

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A while back, it's been a few years ago, but a while back,

0:18.0

Linda Holmes, who hosts NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hours,

0:21.0

she wrote this really incredible piece about how impossible it is to keep up with

0:26.7

the pace of all the great art that's coming out, you know, books and TV and films, and how the truth is, you're simply just going to miss most of it the vast

0:35.9

majority of it you're never going to get to there's too much and Linda noted in

0:40.8

her piece that this isn't really a bad thing. This is actually a good thing because it means that there's no shortage of riches in the world for you to discover and it means that the world is you know bursting with creativity and a lot of

0:56.1

wonder and magic for you to discover. But it also means that there is a lot of noise and it's sometimes hard for a work of art to truly

1:07.6

capture our complete undistracted, locked in, full attention. But when that happens, when you are lucky enough to be moved

1:17.4

by a great piece of music, for example, in really deep and profound in meaningful

1:22.1

ways, I think it's one of the really deep and profound in meaningful ways.

1:24.0

I think it's just one of the greatest feelings

1:26.5

in the world to be able to have.

1:28.6

Mitra Arthur is here with me.

1:31.4

Hey, Mitra.

1:32.1

Hey, how you doing?

1:33.0

Meetra, you're a video producer with NPR Music and Jazz Night in America and you are the one who got me thinking

1:39.0

about this because the NPR Music team, we all got together you know to talk about our favorite music of the year and you know what should be on our year in lists and everything and you told us about an experience that you had with one song in particular. What was it? The song was

1:54.5

Wait till I Get Over by Duran Jones and it's from his album that came out this

1:59.8

year of the same name. Well when when you talked about it, I was so moved by how moved you were by the piece.

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