MUSIC FLOW · Issue 1
SALES — “Renee”
Back in my car-selling days at Mercedes (less than a year ago 😂), I found this song.
The buyer and I had just agreed on a deal after hours — around 9 p.m. The expectation was to prep the cars ourselves, which meant heading out into the freezing Pacific Northwest night to find it, fill it with gas, and wash it inside and out.
I sprint around back — because that’s what you do when you’ve got ten minutes before your guest walks out of finance. I get into the car’s icy interior. The lot is stark and quiet, street lamps refracting off windows, hundreds of cars surrounding me. I turn the key; the dash lights up.
And there it is — a soft guitar riff cuts through the cold.
The song’s already playing on the radio, and somehow it just… gets me.
A calm, surreal dopamine rush. Like, okay, someone out there understands.
The song’s about a moment that “took too long to get at me,” which just fits. It’s that don’t-waste-my-time energy in music form.