Songs of a Lost Lover: Motel 6
With 589 scrobbles on Last.FM in just the last two years, I have been rightfully obsessed with Motel 6 by indie band River Whyless. Track 3 off their 2018 album “ Kindness, A Rebel ”, written by Ryan O'Keefe, takes us through the painful moving stages of a breakup. The love described in this song is a nomad love, a kind of love that makes home, any place your lover is. I found this song from one of the first people I truly fell in love with. He texted me as I was miles and miles away on a beach. “I’m obsessed with this song”. I listened to every song he sent me because in my mind, if I loved everything about him, I’d love everything he loved too. This song changed things though, it cut deeper than any other recommendations he had thrown at me. The way O’Keefe sang about his movement forward, almost so fast he lost sight of what was right in front of him, seemed to strike a chord with me. I was 2,000 miles away, miserable without him, miserable in such a beautiful place; moving for...