Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
At this point in my life, I was still digesting most new music through Top 40 radio stations and amidst a sea of sugary pop songs and hair metal ballads came this quiet acoustic song with the most powerful lyrics and imagery that my 16 year old self had encountered to that point. I hadn't really considered pop/rock music to contain any message of substance prior-a song's purpose was to either to move my feet, bop my head, or pump my fist, but I didn't expect songs to make me think.
Fast Car is poetic and heartbreaking and brilliant to this day. I could identify with it at age 16 and I still can at this age.
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