Easy Sunday Listening (Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John)

Sundays are meant for easy listening. In fact, I believe Lionel Ritchie was the first one to suggest that he was "easy like Sunday morning." Although that song is immaculate, it isn't the recommendation that I have for today.

Getting back to the topic at hand, easy listening requires songs that are just that: melodies that are pleasant to the ear. Smooth like butter... It's always great to indulge in music that gets us pumped up, but the simplicity of a gentle head bob is also nice and relaxing.

(Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Folks)

Young Folks is a wonderful example of easy listening. Released back in 2007, this song became the anthem of every teenage millennial, and for good reason. Young Folks brilliantly tells the love story through a conversation between boy and girl. It captures the essence of young blossoming love, the blind infatuation that tells them both, "I don't care about your past or your mistakes; I want to take a chance with you."

I, for one, am eternally grateful that my husband took a chance on me. It quite literally saved my life.

I personally enjoy this track for its unique ability to encapsulate the entirety of the 1960s into one song: the eerie whistling, the male and female dual vocals, the dreamy echos, the talented use of real instruments, especially the maracas 😃 The video style is also unique, it reminds me of the early animations from the 90s and 2000s.

When I first heard this song, I had assumed it was from before my time.

This is a very rare kind of talent: to be able to recreate music not only from a different time period, but from a period in which one wasn't even alive yet to experience it. It takes a special kind of talent to be able to listen to music and magically transport yourself back to that era.