41. Faye Webster - “It’s Not A Sad Thing”

This track captures the beauty of fragility. There’s something special about sadness, about embracing it for what it is and appreciating it as another flavor of life that enhances the experience of sentience rather than detracting from it. Sadness, like anger and happiness, has an ability to provide clarity, casting its own unique lens upon life and highlighting certain aspects that would otherwise remain hidden.

I feel like this is what Webster is trying to get at. She’s cradling her sadness. She knows that, objectively speaking, what she’s experiencing is not necessarily sad, and yet these moments nevertheless strike her with a pang of sadness. All she knows, and all any of us will ever truly know, is our own subjective experience of reality. Objectivity is a illusion, and so she is embracing her truth. She’s letting the sadness wash over her. She’s not avoiding it or apologizing for it, but rather she’s letting it flow through her and soak her mind until it evaporates of its own accord. After all, sadness isn’t always a sad thing. Sometimes sadness can be beautiful too.