Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
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I tried to write about him quite a few times, particularly in a mixtape I once wrote, though I’d called it an essay at the time.
The problem: I could not separate my thoughts or memories of him from the song lyrics of my teenage years. That is not a new problem, nor is it novel or particularly interesting, which I think is what actually makes it interesting — the ubiquity. I will ask you to take a moment to recall the song lyrics that remind you of your own first love. The words you cannot separate from that time with them, the particular curve of a voice hitting a note in a lyric that still breaks your heart because it does, and will always, remind you of them.
