Sweetness Overdose

Will Cotton - Candy Curls (2005)

The music in this post is inspired by a dreamy, misplaced San-Franscician who is digging the love exports of one sweet hollerer called Josh Rouse. And by the disgustingly Carrie Bradshawesque question: How does one prevent and/or treat a sweetness overdose? If that question doesn't wrap itself into a sufficiently neat thematic TV package, we've all experienced simple examples in the tangy rumble of one-too-many skittles or the lactic acid exhaustion of a cotton candy mountain. But what about the of a grating morning following a champagned night pairing or compulsive dosages of unhealthy social outreaching? The pains of too many fruitless and delusional expressions of love can be felt just as strong in the empty stomach. When piggy bank savings and moms are in the past, how does one develop the self-control to avoid boarding the tragic "Sweet Ship" and drowning in the shallow of associated lovely excessiveness?

Josh Rouse - Givin It Up (mp3)

Josh Rouse - Why Won't You Tell Me What (mp3)