Plum
well
my dear ones,
I’ve
spent over a week trying to
write
about something else, anything else,
but
it’s just not working,
which
is an indication that this
is
what I’m supposed to write about.
“Plum”
is a singer.
At
least I always thought it was Plum.
But
when I looked up that moniker,
it
appears she spells her stage name “Plumb.”
She
added a “b” in honor of her producer,
Matt
Bronleewe, and his contribution
to
her sound (which is cool, of course).
Anyway,
her real name is Tiffany Arbuckle Lee,
which
I guess she thought was too long
to
fit on an album cover. *lol*
Originally,
her songs were published as
Christian
Contemporary Music,
but
some thought her material too dark
for
that particular genre,
so
she branched out into Alternative Rock
and
Electric Dance Music.
Plumb
touches on some deep topics,
like
her song, “Cut,”
(a
song about small cutting,
not suicide, but just trying to
externalize the internal pain;
I know many cutters, so I can relate)
which
was featured on the Vampire Diaries,
or
“Damaged,” a song about a girl
who
is coping with being molested as a child.
Back
in 2000, she was thinking of leaving
the
music industry for good,
when
a fan wrote to her about “Damaged,”
saying,
“Whatever
you do,
I just want you to never forget
that you have changed someone's life.”
That
letter inspired Plumb to stay in music
...and
I’m glad she did;
I
love her music;
I
can listen to her for hours,
which
I often do.
She
has one song I must have listened to
like
57 times,
and
I’m sure I’m good for another 57 or so.
“Don’t
Deserve You,” is a song
written
on two levels;
in
one way, it’s about her son,
and
how much he means to her life;
but
it also has a deeper meaning
about
how much God loves us,
or,
as she puts it:
“You
never give up
When I'm falling apart
Your arms are always open wide
And you're quick to forgive
When I make a mistake
You love me in the blink of an eye.”
Something
about that line of
God
loving us in the blink of an eye,
no
matter how many times we screw up,
really
resonates with me,
(You
can see the full lyrics,
or hear the song, here:
When
I hear a song like that
it
gives me hope,
and
it transports me
out
of my day-to-day existence,
...lifts
me up to where I can “see” heaven.
*shrugs*
Isn’t
that what great music does?
Thanks,
Plumb,
love
you!
And
please keep on writing music.
Have
a great week, all! =)
grace, peace, and love to you,
dave