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I know its a stretch to suggest that I singlehandedly put it in the top-10, but I do wonder if I gave it a boost to end up on a mainstream playlist where non-pavement fans would give it plays. Like close to half of the next highest one, but it was at seven. The crazy thing is it had significantly fewer plays than every other song.
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After a few months, as my obsession spread to basically every Pavement song, I finally noticed one day that Harness Your Hopes had cracked the top ten. Anyway, in addition to actively listening to the song hundreds (possibly over a thousand) of times in a six-week span, I also fell asleep to a short playlist I made that featured it, and it would play on repeat overnight (this happened maybe three or four times in total). I just loved the simple rhythm and the way the lyrics all seemed to fall into each other - it reminded me a lot of my favorite Sublime song, New Realization. 20 might even be an understatement, as insane as it sounds. I'm not kidding or embellishing when I say I played it at least 20 times a day for about a month or two. That's when I found Harness Your Hopes and I. After a few months of focusing on Quarantine the Past and acquiring a taste for the laid-back style, I started to work my way through the discography and saved any song that I enjoyed along the way. I think Range Life was somewhere around 4 or 5 million, Cut Your Hair and Goldsoundz were around 2 or 3 million, then the rest of the top-10 all hovered around a million, give or take a few hundred thousand. At the time, the top songs on Spotify had a couple million plays. I first got really into Pavement back in early 2016.
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I know, there's probably no way, but hear me out. I know it's going to sound insane, but I think I might've played a huge role in the song's rise. Holy shit, I've been waiting for an opportunity to tell this story for years.