Salt 🧂 | 5ive Songs

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On this edition of 5ive Songs, we select five songs that are associated with SALT 🧂 in some form or fashion.

On 5ive Songs, we (I) keep things short and sweet – no extra calories or needless fluff. There’s a topic, five songs, and a short blurb that doesn’t exceed a paragraph. Yes, it’s a playlist, but it’s a miniature playlist that shouldn’t take much time to consume. On this edition of 5ive Songs, we select five songs that are associated with SALT 🧂 in some form or fashion.

1. Mickey Guyton, “Salt” 🧂

💿 Bridges (EP) • 🏷 Capitol Nashville • 📅 2020

“She’s got you blind, but I see it all / You think you’re getting sugar / But boy, you’re getting salt.” Oh snap! 🎵 “Salt” 🧂 appears as the penultimate number on 💿 Bridges, the debut EP by 🏆 Grammy-nominated country singer, 🎙 Mickey Guyton. Here, on this thrilling, country-pop joint with ample crossover appeal, Guyton delivers a brief but compelling tale where this guy is involved with a girl that’s nothing but trouble. Much like on her song that earned her the Grammy nomination (🎵 “Black Like Me” ), Guyton serves up a great, well-rounded vocal performance. Furthermore, she brings plenty of attitude and personality to this salty track.

2. Aesop Rock, “Salt”

💿 Spirit World Field Guide • 🏷 Rhymesayers Entertainment LLC • 📅 2020

“That’s a unique wind / Spun a whip out in the snow / Really ain’t got shit / Your condition is not a condition we know.” Despite being underrated, underground rapper 🎙 Aesop Rock (Ian Matthias Bavitz) is absolutely and utterly awesome. I dare you to argue otherwise! If you’ve been one of many folks who’ve underrated this gem of a rapper, look no further than 🎵 “Salt” 🧂, the salty standout from his 2020 album, 💿 Spirit World Field Guide. You definitely won’t leave salty after you hear the hard-knocking beat and kick a$$ rhymes Aesop delivers. This isn’t merely rap, it’s poetry, with numerous top-rate one-liners. Rarely do you hear the likes of “Dorm like a door to Hell, the doorbell plays Taps” or cleverer, “Ravens deliver him tinketry in eternal damnation / I make disturbing the stasis a game to beat when the mania boils.” Can you say, 🎤💧!!!

3. Ava Max, “Salt” 🧂

💿 Heaven & Hell • 🏷 Atlantic • 📅 2020

“I’m all out of salt, I’m not gonna cry / Won’t give you what you want / ‘Cause I look way too good tonight.” Hell yeah, 🎙 Ava Max! On 🎵 “Salt” 🧂, a highlight from Max’s 2020 debut album, 💿 Heaven & Hell, she shows incredible resilience. She’s had her heart broken, yet, at this point, “she’s all cried out,” you might say. Rather than continue to be downtrodden about this lame-a$$ guy, she’s on the up-and-up, feeling herself, knowing she’s better than the way she was treated. After all, on this sleek, 🎙 Cirkut produced bop, she’s “got her thigh-highs oon, feel like Wonder Woman,” plus her “Lipstick pops and she feels like Monroe.” You go girl!

4. The National, “I Should Live in Salt”

💿 Trouble Will Find Me • 🏷 4AD • 📅 2013

“I should live in salt for leaving you behind, behind” Interesting 🎙 Matt Berninger – very interesting. Hmm, what does it even mean? Well, on 🎵 “I Should Live in Salt,” the opener from 💿 Trouble Will Find Me, 🎙 The National front man states the song is about his younger brother, per Under the Radar: “I think the song is a reflection on our relationship, and some of it is my guilt or feeling that he went in a different direction than I did.” Notably, Berninger repeats the phrase, “You should know me better than that,” throughout song, which clearly showcases a relationship component. Besides the theme and lyrics, “I Should Live in Salt” is a gorgeous song with a rich palette of sounds within the backdrop that feels and sounds quite organic. As always, Berninger sounds terrific.

5. Tinashe, “Salt” 🧂

💿 Joyride • 🏷 RCA • 📅 2018

🎵 “Salt” 🧂 is a surefire contender for the crowning achievement of 💿 Joyride, the sophomore album by 🎙 Tinashe. Yep, this sodium-fueled ballad is a terrific breakup record. She shows off her full complement of vocal abilities, singing in her lower register and gradually ascending into that awesome, commanding upper register. 🎙 Soundz does a masterful job crafting a truly dark, emotional, minor-key backdrop for her to paint over as she urges, “So when you go and break my heart in two / Don’t throw SALT 🧂 on the wound.”

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