31 Day Song Challenge (Daily Planet email #1046)

Matthew Hane
2 min readMay 2, 2024

A song you wish were 85% shorter

A song you dreamed but doesn’t yet exist

Your favorite song about two widowers, six kids, and a maid who remains unmentioned

That song you heard in a commercial that turned out to be a bop

Favorite Latin song, I mean sung in Latin

Your favorite of Drake’s 77 top ten singles, or just name one and be done with it

If your spouse whistles this tune one more time, there are gonna be words

A song you’ve heard on WXRT consistently and without pleasure for forty years

A song that should’ve stayed a ringtone

Favorite 17th century Flemish composer’s tune, dance category

You just know the guitar guy at the bar is going to play this and still it exasperates you when it starts

One of the fourteen Taylor Swift songs that make up this week’s Billboard top fourteen

A song that makes you put on a gorilla costume and jump around in the kitchen, or maybe that’s just me

Your favorite song about a dog named Boo

A song about what wheels on the bus do

A song, written by somebody else, that you can’t get anyone else to like

Least favorite song by someone whose music you love

A song you would think is Canadian but isn’t

Favorite tribute to the generational emotional absence of fathers

Favorite song with chromatic alterations to its Mixolydian home scale, creating harmonic ambiguity

Best song by ¥$, Ye & Ty Dolla $ign Featuring Rich The Kid & Playboi Carti

Best song you’ve never heard

Favorite Song of Solomon

A Dylan song that sounds the least like a really articulate cicada

A song that makes you wonder if maybe music should never have been invented

Song you were listening to when you got that felony speeding ticket

Song that makes you want to dance, despite that you can’t dance and the song isn’t really danceable

A song that bores you so much that you become angry

A song you wish were faster, had better vocals, a different chorus, and less stupid lyrics, but still really like

The last song you didn’t listen to for free

The soundtrack of your dreams

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Matthew Hane

The falling anvil development team. The proportions of a pleasing error. Did we do it for money? Heavens, no. We did not.