Category: Sentimental Songs

On Saturday, 20 July, Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People participated in the Threads*ZK/U Berlin All-Day Pop Up #5. Picnicking listeners gathered in the Moabiter Stadtgarten while I broadcast episode three from up in the Ständige Vertretung radio studio.

Threads*ZK/U is a sister-studio of Threads Radio (London). It builds on the dynamic interconnectivity of the ZK/U Berlin echoing its drive towards meaning-creation and disruption in the urban sphere. With sonic explorations into the spoken word, live music, investigative research, and more.

For this special birthday edition, for the young, the old, and the aging, we even managed to pull off a sentimental sing along!

Episode three features songs by New Kids on the Block, Drake, Adele, the Young@Heart chorus, Boney M, and more. Pull out your tissues and sing along.  

Description: Join pop music scholar DJ Sentimentemily for a cross-genre exploration of sentimental songs. Based on her current research, Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People merges the sounds of sentimentalism with critical historical commentary that follows the long arc of pop music—from the late eighteenth-century through to the present. Get into your feelings and feel all the feels.

Thanks to ZK/U, Threads* Radio, Alex Head, Nathan Gray, our picnic listeners, and my sing along gang.

The second episode of Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People is now available for streaming. This installment tackles the theme of death and features sentimental songs about death by Kanye West and Paul McCartney, The Staple Singers, Mike + The Mechanics, Prince, Chavela Vargas, Nina Simone, Michael Callen, The Shangri-Las, and more. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Description: Join pop music scholar DJ Sentimentemily for a cross-genre exploration of sentimental songs. Based on her current research, Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People merges the sounds of sentimentalism with critical historical commentary that follows the long arc of pop music—from the late eighteenth-century through to the present. Get into your feelings and feel all the feels.

Thanks to ZK/U, Threads* Radio, Alex Head, Nathan Gray, and Matt Jones.

Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People recently made its debut as a radio show on Threads* Radio. The pilot episode features tracks by Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Smith, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Yoko Ono, and more. Grab your hankies and take a listen!

Description: Join pop music scholar DJ Sentimentemily for a cross-genre exploration of sentimental songs. Based on her current research, “Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People” merges the sounds of sentimentalism with critical historical commentary that follows the long arc of pop music—from the late eighteenth-century through to the present. Get into your feelings and feel all the feels.

Thanks to ZK/U, Threads*, Nathan Gray, Jonathan Weatherill-Hunt, Calvin Scherer, and Alex Head.