September 15, 2019 – Bats and cars are the opposite of princesses, so I thought I’d go with them. Keeping y’all guessing.

I heard about Ozzy Osbourne’s vocal collaboration with the pop/hip-hop/sometimes modern rock artist Post Malone about a month ago. The song came out this week. Ozzy’s vocals feature at the top of the song, and are as strong as ever. The sound is strongly emotional in a way the song tries to capture. It’s a song in the spirit of many hip-hop “bangers” (that’s a new word for a radio song) where they have a strong vocalist singing the choruses. Here, they have another rapper too, Travis Scott, that young Kardashian’s man doing parts of the song too. I expected the song to be disjointed, but I think it works. I hope it does acheive “banger” status, that it plays on the radio, and by plays on the radio, I mean pop stations, because that’s just … funny! Ozzy on pop radio! I really want to hear that! Plus, and get to the end, there’s a pretty good guitar solo outro too. If pop radio plays that, I definitely want to hear it! Maybe it could happen too because the articles I’m reading about the song say the Gen Z kids think Post Malone discovered Ozzy Osbourne and put Ozzy on the map. What can I even say to that?

Oh and because I’m feeling not completely divorced from my princess songs I’m  playing in reality, Taylor Swift’s, Delicate, being the top of my list, I’m stalking YouTube for various versions of it. I do think I have Taylor’s own version figured out, and I can’t get it out of my head, not the words, no, the strumming. This is my real first attempt at making this up myself. I think all the YouTube tutorials don’t do it justice, so I’ve made my own little chart of how to play it, copying Taylor’s rendition.  And somehow, thankfully, in doing my searches for these various versions of guitar tutorials for Delicate, YouTube has stopped giving me advertisements of little kids at St. Jude’s and, instead, gave me a commercial for the car movie, Ford v. Ferrari.

Mind you, I kind of hate race cars right now, just because my nephew has gotten a bit of an ego about this race car club-thing he spends so much time on. It’s truly nauseating to see a young man with a huge ego, especially to his own aunt, but that’s a whole different story, and I even feel guilty saying it because we are supposed to be proud of our young family members when they find their place in the world. Still, it makes me not love cars, when I once really did. But this movie is from an era when I really did love cars. It’s Shelby’s entree into racing. The preview is really good, mostly because I know where that story is going. Oh and there’s this: I really, really don’t like those idiots who drive Ferraris on Laurel Canyon looking at the rest of us like we are lesser. It’s just your curvy road, but I live here, Ferrari weirdos. And I have no guilt about thinking that. So I know which side I’m on here: Ford!

And the fun part of the preview? When Ford’s Shelby car gets going, the preview starts playing a guitar riff. I sat watching, thinking, that’s a cool guitar riff, familiar, only to realize it’s Greta Van Fleet. Good for them. Young men in a song about the old racing legends of Ford (Carol Shelby and the car); I don’t know, I guess I was expecting a more classic artist, but hey why not a young man with an ego? That seems to suit racing. I know that firsthand. Oh and just so you know, I’m not out of princess mode, but hey it’s a good day when one finds something this tough to write about, and so I thought I’d go with a bats and cars theme, just to break things up. Now back to my song…

I just had to!