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Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1988

Epic · Sony Music Entertainment

Man in the Mirror

Epic, under Sony. The sermon is correct. The life around it is the test the song cannot take.

Epic released it. Sony owns Epic. The lyric is one of the few pop sermons that refuses to begin with someone else. Make the change, it says, and start with the face you can actually reach.

The instruction outlived the instructor's reputation. Use the instruction.

The eight

  1. Industry

    7/10

    A choir, a build, a clear sentence. Someone constructed it.

  2. Household

    5/10

    The children in the lyric are other people's. He asks what he will do.

  3. Piety

    6/10

    Repentance, aimed at the self. That is the right address.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    He says he is the problem, which costs the usual pose.

  5. Republic

    7/10

    The poor, the winter, a public. He does not leave them out.

  6. Temperance

    6/10

    The feeling swells. The instruction is still practical.

  7. Truth

    7/10

    Look at yourself. He does not start with the enemy.

  8. Stewardship

    6/10

    A true instruction. Keep it, and do not let the singer's later life erase the sentence.

Live historicallyName one thing in the mirror this week that is yours to change. Change it before you play the song again.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1967

Motown · Universal Music Group

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Motown, under Universal. The promise is arrival. They do not say it will be easy.

Tamla and Motown put it out. Universal holds Motown. The record is a duet that will not let the other singer be alone in the vow. That is rarer than the hook suggests.

Use it as a promise you intend to keep this week, not as a feeling.

The eight

  1. Industry

    8/10

    Two singers locked in time. That is craft.

  2. Household

    7/10

    A person, coming. The distance is not a metaphor only.

  3. Piety

    5/10

    Devotion, said at full voice.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    They name the obstacles and refuse them.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    Two people. The promise is still witnessable.

  6. Temperance

    6/10

    Big, and it stays on the promise.

  7. Truth

    7/10

    No small print in the chorus.

  8. Stewardship

    7/10

    A standard of showing up.

Live historicallyTell someone you are coming. Then come.

Annie