Andy Grammer, Damn It Feels Good To Be Me | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 16^th edition of Music Lifts (2023), we’re uplifted by Andy Grammer, performing, “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, a column that seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 16^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2023), we highlight 🎵 “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me” as performed by 🎙 Andy Grammer.

Being true to self is the way to go, and nobody – and I mean NOBODY – should ever forget that! Pop singer/songwriter 🎙 Andy Grammer has learned this valuable life lesson. He shares it on the brief, but positive, uplifting record, 🎵 “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me”.  Profanity may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but, in this case, his damn is an exuberant one, coming from a good place.

Before now, Grammer was trying to be/emulate others, which didn’t cut it.  “I said stop tryna be the things that I’m not / Tryna be like everyone else / Tryna fit inside of that box,” he sings in the pre-chorus. He  adds, “Copycatting’s dirty, nothing worse than being thirsty.” Woo! True dat, Andy! Throughout the verses, he serves up marvelous, prudent advice, such as, “You’re only shining when you act yourself” (verse one) and “You don’t start living ‘til you kill that shade” (verse two).  Ultimately, it is the chorus, backed by spirited production (🎛 Jon Levine), that solidifies the sheer excellence of 🎵 “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me”: “I’m no good at being you / My philosophy, damn, it feels good to be me /…Ain’t got nothing left to prove / Man, I’m finally free / Damn, it feels good to be me.” ABSOLUTELY!

🎙 Andy Grammer • 🎵 “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me” • 🏷 Giant Soul / S-Curve • 📅 2021

Andy Grammer, “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me”: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 16 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Giant Soul / S-Curve; cottonbro studio, Itzel  Sandoval, Neeraj Nagdeve via Pexels]