My Top 5s' Top 5s

Music may be one of my favorite things ever. I listen to it all day at work, have curated hundreds of playlists, have attended over 30 concerts, and always have a song stuck in my head. What makes music great to me is how it can draw on experiences and emotions that we all share. That, coupled with talented artists' insane musicality and voices, make for something I don't think I could go without.

So, please enjoy my list of my top 5 artists and their top 5 songs (with my favorite lyrics from the song). These are based on how I relate to the songs, what memories I associate with them, the lyrics and messages, and how the songs actually sound.

Worth mentioning is that I have seen all but artist #4 live in concert. This may have something to do with them being on this list. But that also goes to show that the talent is real and on top of being musicians, these people are also performers/entertainers!

In reverse order:

5. Flatland Calvary

   
   

   

   
   

   5. Landslide

   1. Cause I've built my life around you. But time makes you bolder, children get older, and I'm getting older too.

   4. Pretty Women

   1. She's living in her own little world. Some pretty women are really sad little girls. Her daddy once told her "a man shouldn't make you feel small."

   3. No Shade of Green

   1. With legs as long as she is free, made strong by walking out on any man who couldn't let her be.

   2. Come Back Down

   1. Save your tears for a rainy day, our lost one has come home.

   1. Don't Have to do This Like That

   1. But it can't be guilt and shame all the time... and all our tears can't wash the hurt away.

4. Kelsea Ballerini

   
   

   

   
   

   5. Love is a Cowboy

   1. It's reckless and rugged, it's sweet and it's stubborn, love is a cowboy.

   4. HEARTFIRST

   1. Could be forever or we might break; that's just the kind of risk that we take.

   3. Half of My Hometown

   1. Still looking for something half of us ain't found. So stay or leave, a part of me will always be half of my hometown.

   2. Love Me Like a Girl

   1. I wish you could get inside my head, maybe then you'd understand.

   1. Penthouse (healed version)

   1. I kissed someone new last night. Now I don't care where you're sleeping baby!

3. Kat Hasty

   
   

   

   
   

   5. What Our Parents Taught Us

   1. And I would've worn your scars as mine but you turned your back and I didn't know why. Love isn't pain but that's all you knew and sometimes we can't escape what we're used to.

   4. The West Ain't Wild Anymore

   1. And they lost the wildest thing they ever knew when they lost me and you. I'd like to ride away with you into a world that we once knew; but The West, it ain't wild anymore.

   3. Chance to be Alive

   1. It ain't a bad day, long as I got you. We ain't dying 'til God says we're through. He's laughing with His buddies saying "ain't they lucky I need a good laugh too."

   2. The Family Business

   1. I was born with my daddy's pride but I look like my mama so they let it slide

      * Honorable Mention: And all my exes look like they got a record. (because, yah girl, same.)

   1. Burn It Down

   1. 'Member how I loved you when I was naive? But the truth is you were never good enough for me.

2. Eric Church

   
   

   

   
   

   5. Like Jesus Does

   1. But she carries me when my sins make me heavy; and loves me like Jesus does.

   4. Hell of a View

   1. You liked the thought of chasing life instead of dollar bills. We were living reckless, nothing to catch us, baby, but the ground.

   3. Doing Life With Me

   1. Every big, every little in the everyday things; the notes and the words and the songs I sing; to the ones doing life with me.

   2. Holdin' My Own

   1. When my time on Earth is done, I want they write it on my stone: I lived, loved, and died holdin' my own.

   1. Talladega

   1. You can't hit pause, that's just the deal. Most days in life don't stand out, but life's about those days that will.

1. Noah Kahan

   
   

   

   
   

   5. Fine

   1. And this is for all those dreams I believed in. This is for all those doubts in my mind. This is the wild, wild world that we're, we're living in. I won't let anyone so wrong tell me what's right. I'll be just fine.

   4. Mess

   1. And I'll put all my pieces back together where they belong. And I'll say, "I'm a mess, I'm a mess, oh God, I'm a mess."

   3. New Perspective

   1. You and all of your new perspective now. Wish I could shut it in a closet, and drag you back down.

   2. Come Over

   1. Someday I'm gonna be somebody people want. But I'm in the business of losing your interest, and I turn a profit each time that we speak.

   1. All My Love

   1. Now I know your name, but not who you are. It's all okay. There ain't a drop of bad blood, it's all my love.

If any of these lyrics, vibes, or artists speak to you, really give them a listen! I like to think I have good taste in music!

Like my favorite song by my favorite artist,

All my love,

Neva