KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
February 15, 2026
“What Can Make Us Thrive?”
Part 1
Hello Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this third Sunday of February morning—ah, Spring continues to get closer. Those of us who have a problem with cold are beginning to feel a little better. Anyway, welcome to “Message at the Top.” I am Fr. Mike and get set for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by the research of Media base 24-7 and your requests, and get ready for some top 10 songs from years past as well. The songs of the past that we will play today include the songs of the Grammys of 2026 along with some other Grammy songs. Get ready for the songs on our playlist that professional music people say are the Grammys. Incidentally, I do not always agree with those professional music people, but I digress…..
Just a note before we get into the Grammys—we here at Mix 103 are not the same as the regular genre of popular music and therefore our top 10 is not always the same as the top 10 suggested by say, Billboard magazine, and that means that we will not always agree with their Grammy selections. But we will obviously use the same music. When I use the Grammys today, I’m talking about the selections that our genre of music and our top 10 deals with.
One of Lady Gaga’s songs has quite a list of honors at the 2026 Grammys. The song itself was the winner of the best dance pop recording and the album from which it was taken was the winner of best pop vocal album, namely “Mayhem.” It was also nominated for song and record of the year, and its album nominated for album of the year. The song is “Abracadabra” which was top 10 earlier in the year.
Lady Gaga writes about the song: “In many ways,” she writes, “the song is about how to deal with the challenge to yourself. I wanted to explore the question ‘What does it feel like to thrive rather than just survive all the time. Life presents obstacles everyone must overcome. But sometimes the barriers are self-imposed.” And so, she sings: “Pay the toll to the angels, drawing circles in the clouds, keep your mind on the distance when the devil turns around. Hold me in your heart tonight in the magic of the dark moonlight; save me from this empty fight, like a poem said by the lady in red. Now you’re both in a dance. It’s time to cast your spell on the night.” She describes the lady in red as the opposition one feels within, the internal pressure. Often the external world mirrors the cynical demands of one’s internal dialogue. But she wants more than endurance. She wants to thrive. The video which everyone should watch on You-tube in my opinion, features two Gagas: one in white and another in red with really good dancing—two sides battle, pitting the good against the bad, the innocent vs. the wicked. Great song and video.
So, let’s make it our lead song this Grammys 2026 special show, and talk about what makes us thrive in our human nature. And here she is from her album “Mayhem,” Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, that is Lady Gaga, her song “Abracadabra” on MATT.
(double) ABRACADABRA / Lady Gaga
APPLAUSE / Lady Gaga
Part 2
Closing off a double play from her, a statement of wanting to be appreciated. Not from our Grammys this year, it is from her album “Artpop” and her song, from 2013, “Applause” on MATT. “I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong, to crash the critic saying, ‘Is it right or is it wrong?’ If only fame had an IV, could I bear being away from you. I found the vein, put it in here. I live for the applause, live for the way that you cheer and scream for me. Give me that thing that I love—I’ll turn the lights on. Put your hands up, make ‘em touch, make it real loud.” It is a rather straightforward song seeking praise. In terms of our theme, when a person is too much into themselves as the lady was there, the only way such a person could thrive in life is to grow out of the selfishness we may have.
Now, let’s begin a triple play with a person nominated for best new artist of the year, and winner of best pop solo performance of the year with this song. It is my personal number 3 song of meaning for the year just passed. She said of the song: it is an ADHD anthem, it really showcases everything I felt during my last relationship, but also it is deeper than that, as it talks about how I feel about myself in general—being too messy one day and too clean another, struggling to find that balance in myself.” Here are some of the words: “You know I'm impatient, So why would you leave me waiting outside the station when it was like minus four degrees, and I get what you're satin'; I just really don't wanna hear it right now. Can you shut up for like once in your life; Listen to me, I took your nice words of advice about how you think I'm gonna die lucky if I turn thirty-three. OK, so yeah, I smoke like a chimney, I'm not skinny, But cut me some slack, who do you want me to be. 'Cause I'm too messy, and then I'm too clean. A thousand people I could be for you, and you hate the lot.” I left out a word in the lyrics. In terms of our theme today, we all see that our lives are just a little messy, and we need to do something about it if we are to accomplish anything with our lives, that is, thrive in life. It is from her album “This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway,” the song “Messy” from Grammy winner British artist Lola Young on MATT.
(triple) MESSY / Lola Young
BAD DREAMS / Teddy Swims
THE DOOR / Teddy Swims
Part 3
Not on our Grammys this year, closing off a double play from him, a song about true love of self. From his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1,” Teddy Swims and a song of the importance of being able to control false love, his song “The Door”, number 6 on MATT’s top songs of meaning from last year. He said of the song that it is a statement of how to save one’s own life and walk out of an abusive relationship. “I took a page out of your favorite book,” he begins his song. “You sold me lies just by the way you look, taught me a language that I’ve never speak. That ain’t for me. You took me higher that I ever flew, too many times, gave you a second chance. I’m just a man. No more thinking’ about you late night, no more runnin’ around with your friends now, done picking’ up pieces of my soul up off the floor. I said I would die for you, but I can’t take this pain no more. I thought I was willing’ but tonight I save my life when I showed you the door. I can’t play this game no more.” In terms of our theme, he is doing exactly what he needs to do to thrive in his life.
Before that song from him, we heard another one that was part of this year’s Grammys, from his second album, “I’ve tried everything but Therapy, part 2,” Teddy Swims and his song “Bad Dreams”. The album was nominated for best pop solo album of the year. In the song, he wants the peace and quiet of living because his friend is causing problems. “Sun is going down,” he begins his song, “time is running out; no one else around but me, steady losing light, steady losing my mind, moving shadows and grinding teeth. Without you, there ain’t no place for me to hide; without you, there’s no way I can sleep tonight, what I’d do for a little bit of peace and quiet; without you I keep slipping’ into bad dreams where there’s no you and I.” So, he wants the peace and quiet and instead, he is worrying about his relationship. Thinking of the message with our theme, if he wants to thrive in life, he needs that peace and quiet, and therefore needs to put that thought of the relationship out of his mind.
Our theme this week is the thought of how to truly thrive in our world today as we play the songs of the Grammys of this year and some from previous years as well. I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. After a short break, we will continue our songs and their meanings, spending time with people like Docheii and Rose. May I lead you to break with a thought from Abraham Lincoln: “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” A lot to think about there—and lying will never help as we strive to thrive in today’s world. Your dial is set for “Message at the Top on Mix 103”. Stay with us!
Part 4
Good morning, everyone! You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show that not only plays music of the current top 10, but the music of great top 10 songs of meaning from the past. We welcome you back to the songs that are most popular in this area. We take the top 10 and the songs of meaning of the past top 10’s and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We are playing the songs on our playlist that won Grammys this year. We took our theme of thriving in today’s world from the song “Abracadabra” from Lady Gaga’s best pop vocal album of the year “Mayhem.”
Let’s begin this segment of MATT with a song that was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year and sounds very much like a previous song from 2011. It comes from rapper/singer/songwriter Docheii and her song “Anxiety.” She uses as a sample—that is a similar sound—Gotye’s 2011 song “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The song’s meaning is tangled with fear, fame, and frustration, and therefore quite appropriately named “Anxiety.” “Anxiety keep on trying me,” she begins her song, “I feel it quietly, Tryna silence me, My anxiety, Can't shake it off of me, somebody's watching me and my anxiety.” And the lyrics dive straight into the mess of modern life. Some of those messes include happiness and unhappiness, success and failure, and continually a constant pressure on her mind, body, and identity. In terms of our theme this week, in order to thrive in today’s world, we have to manage the anxieties of our day to day living. From her album “Alligator Bites Never Heal,” this is Docheii, and her Grammy nominated song, “Anxiety” on MATT.
(double) ANXIETY / Docheii
FLOWERS / Miley Cyrus
Part 5
The number 5 song of all the songs of 2024 and the number 1 song of all the songs of 2023, from Miley Cyrus and her album “Endless Summer Vacation”, and her song “Flowers”. She also received a Grammy last year for best pop solo performance for the song. It is a song of how to get over a love relationship after the breakup. “We were good, we were gold,” she sings, “we were right till we weren’t, built a home and watched it burn. I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna lie, started to cry but then remembered I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand, talk to myself for hours, say things you don’t understand. I can take myself dancing and I can hold my own hand. Yeah, I can love me better than you can.” I have said that one can look at what the lyrics say as a selfish attitude, but I prefer to talk about it as a song encouraging self-worth, and in order to thrive in today’s world, our theme today, we have to have a good dose of self-love and self-worth, but not too much because it does become selfish.
Let’s go to another triple play and begin it with a song from the Grammys this year that was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year as well as a song nominated for best pop duo performance. The song itself is described as a drinking game song, and a song and video of pure energy as the lady in the relationship tells us to enjoy our friends in the APAPTEU, that is, in the different apartments of living. “Kissy face, kissy face sent to your phone,” they sing, “but I’m tryna kiss your lips for real; red hearts, red hearts, that’s what I’m on. Come give me somethin' I can feel. Don’t you want me like I want you; don’t you need me like I need you now? Sleep tomorrow, but tonight go crazy. All you gotta do is just meet me at the APAPTEU.” In terms of our theme, in order to have relationships thrive, they have to spend significant time together first. This is Rose along with Bruno Mars and their song APT on MATT.
APT / Rose f/ Bruno Mars
ABOUT DAMN TIME / Lizzy
LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN / Silk Sonic
Part 6
That was the super duo Silk Sonic, that is Peter Gene Hernandez or Bruno Mars again and Brandon Anderson Paak better known as Anderson Paak, and their song “Leave the Door Open,” from 2021 and their album “An Evening With Silk Sonic” on MATT. The song was the Record of the Year of 2022. “Say, what you doing,” they sing, “Where you at. Oh, you got plans—don’t say that. My house clean, my pool warm. We should be dancing’, romancing’ in the east wing and the west wing of this mansion. I ain’t plain’ no games, every word I say coming straight from the heart. So if you’re tryna lay in these arms, I’ma leave the door open.” I believe that the important phrase in that invitation is this: “I ain’t plain’ no games, every word I say coming straight from the heart.” And in general, if people can do this, they are learning to truly thrive as individuals, our theme today.
Before them, the Record of the year according to the Grammys of 2023, that is the song that was performed the best, Melissa Vivian Jefferson, better known as Lizzo, from her album “Special,” and her song “About Damn Time”. It is a song that answers the question of what makes us alright. We like to be alright all the time, of course, and so we have to consider what makes us that way. The lady in the song is one determined lady as she has made up her mind, and she intends to do something about it. “I been so down and under pressure,” she sings, “I’m way too fine to be this stressed, I’m not the girl I was or used to be, I might be better. Turn up the music, turn down the lights, I got a feeling’ I’m gonna be alright. It’s about damn time.” Usually, a person with this strong a determination will truly be able to thrive as they grow, our theme today.
Ah, these songs always give us deep thoughts to think about. “How to Truly Thrive in Life” is our theme today, that thought coming from Lady Gaga and her Grammy award winning song “Abracadabra .” Our next set of music and message will explore that theme with the music of Sabrina Carpenter in double play, David Baguette, Raye, Justin Bieber, and Alex Warren. May I take you to break with this thought from country singer Naomi Judd. It sounds obvious, but as you think about it, there is a lot of wisdom here: “A dead end street is a good place to turn around.” See what I mean, and living it out will tend to lead to help us out as we strive to thrive in our lives. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back for more / wisdom.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 7
Every song has a message, and this is the show that plays the song and gives you that message. This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103, your “top 10 songs of the present and past” show in which we give you meanings as well as music. In fact, as always, we invite you to enjoy the music and listen to the meanings so that your lives can be even better than they are. Our extra songs this morning are all Grammy award winners or nominees. I am Fr. Mike. Thank you for joining us for these songs and the thoughts that go with them. What is amazing about those songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the idea of what can make us thrive in life. It came from super star Lady Gaga and her song “Abracadabra.”
As promised, let’s begin this second hour together with a double play from Sabrina Carpenter. It is the winner of the best pop solo performance and was nominated for both Song and Record of the Year. The album from which the song is taken, namely “Man’s Best Friend” was nominated for best pop vocal album of the year along with the album of the year. She begins the song, “You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it; Did you just say you’re finished? Didn’t know we started. It’s all just so familiar, what do you call it? Stupid, or is it slow? Maybe it’s useless? But there’s a cuter word for it, I know, Man-child. Why you always come a-running to me? Won’t you let an innocent woman be? Never heard of self-care, half your brain just ain’t there. Man-child, why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?” It is a song that is speaking of the immaturity of young adult love, especially men and it is a picture of what can happen when one is only out for fun in a relationship. It is only a selfish relationship and before they can grow into a relationship that will thrive, our theme today, they have to grow away from the selfishness. This is Grammy award winning “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter on MATT.
(tripe) MANCHILD / Sabrina Carpenter
ESPRESSO / Sabrina Carpenter
10 GONE GONE GONE / David Baguette, etc.
Part 8
Beginning our countdown this morning, that was number 10 right now on our playlist coming from 3 artists, David Guetta at DJ, and Teddy Swims and Australian singer Toni Watson better known as Tones and I and their song “Gone Gone Gone” on MATT. One of the people who write about these songs says that this song explores the intensity and volatility of a passionate relationship. “We were fire,” they sing, “impossible to tame like oil in the ocean, no way to put out the flame. We were just runnin, eyes closed in the dark, headed for a wall, full speed, oh, it’s about to leave a mark. I only want you when you’re gone, playing like we’re done. I love your game, drive me insane.” That is, the feelings of an intense relationship are not easy to study or understand because they are too mixed up, and often cause problems. What is necessary is that we work with those feelings so that we have an idea of the good decisions that can be made in order to overcome those problems, and realize that we can solve even the toughest problems. We do that, and we are truly thriving, our theme today.
Before them, we heard the close of the double play from Sabrina Carpenter. It is her extremely popular song that I would rank at number 4 both years of 2024 and 2025 from her album “Short n’ Sweet,” and her song “Espresso”. It was the winner of the best pop solo performance from last year’s Grammys. She said of this song: “The song is kind of about seeing femininity as your superpower, and embracing the confidence of being that lady.” I changed a word in that statement, and her song goes: “Now, he’s thinking ‘bout me every night, is it that sweet? I guess so. Say you can’t sleep; I know that’s me, espresso. I can’t relate to desperation. My ‘give a cares’ are on vacation, and I got this one boy and he won’t stop calling. When they act this way, I know I got ‘em. Too bad your ex don’t do it for ya. Walked in and dream came trued it for ya. Soft skin and I perfumed it for ya. I know I Mountain Dewd it for ya. That morning coffee brewed it for ya. One touch and I brand nod it for ya. That’s me, espresso.” I changed some of the words. I’ve said before that it is an interesting use of the English language—making verbs out of nouns. I think it means that the lady in the relationship is the “Espresso” and she is totally in charge, and in terms of our theme, part of what makes us thrive in life is self-confidence. Of course, there can be too much of it, and too much is just plain selfishness, which will destroy any permanent commitment the couple tries.
We will continue our countdown now to number 1 without interruption. Number 9 begins another triple play. It comes from a British singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Raye whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen. She sings a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire for love song, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her. In terms of our theme, the only way to thrive in today’s world of love is to find someone who truly loves us. This is from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” this is Raye and her song “Where is My Husband”, number 9 this week on MATT.
(triple) 9 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
8 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
7 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
Part 9
That was Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 7 on our countdown this week”. Alex Warren was nominated for best new artist at the Grammys. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to make a love relationship thrive, our theme today--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces.
Before him, we heard the number 8 song right now in our countdown. It is a song that speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment again from his latest album “Swag” and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber. “Swag” was nominated for the best pop solo album; the song was nominated for best pop solo song of the year at this year’s Grammys. “Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?” he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever’; did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. I get it. Way you got me all in my head, Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point that even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks, questions which the emotions of the moment only make more difficult and there must be days of re-commitment, and important words said in the process. Then and only then can that relationship thrive, our theme today.
Our final half-hour is up next for us during which we will hear numbers 6 through 1 right now. Leading us to break, here is a thought from authors Dan Zadra and Kobi Yamaha from their excellent leadership book, How Many People Does It Take to Make a Difference. “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” Amen to that, and that is something that can help us thrive in our lives. I’m Fr. Mike, our show is MATT, this excellent radio station is Mix 103, and we’ll be right back.
We are back for our top 10 show on Mix 103 that gives us the songs as well as their messages. I am your host Fr. Mike. Thanks for taking the time to join us today. As usual, our guide is to enjoy the music AND listen to the message so that our lives can be better than they are right now. We take the songs and messages of the current top 10 and also top 10’s of the past, and figure out how they fit into a theme, a theme that reads “What can make us thrive instead of merely survive.” And we are listening to some songs from the Grammys along with our top 10.
In that top 10, we are up to number 6 which begins a double play of top 10’s from Taylor Swift. The song has been on our playlist for quite a while and cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and both will be willing to eventually work out the deep feelings of love between them. And their love will truly thrive, our theme today. From her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” this is number 6 this week, the first of two from her, Taylor Swift and “The Fate of Ophelia” on MATT.
(triple) 6 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
5 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
4 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
Part 11
A song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing, number 4 on our countdown, from Bruno Mars or his real name of Peter Gene Hernandez, and his song “I Just Might” on MATT. “It would break my heart,”he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, most of the time dancing can make a relationship thrive.
Before him, we heard the close of a top 10 double play from Taylor Swift, the song called “Opalite”, at number 5 on our countdown. It comes from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” again. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor’s fiance. Swift took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She described the song as a song about forgiving yourself for having gone through something that didn’t pan out the way you wanted it to / and giving yourself permission to have it all figured out. So she sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. The lyrics use gemstone metaphors to visualize failed relationships as dark nights, in contrast to happiness as a bright opalescent sky. In that sense, that happiness will be how the relationship thrives, our theme today.
We advance to number 3 in our countdown, and it comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies. At the Grammys, it was nominated for song of the year and best pop group song. As I have said, it is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, that is the beginning of how to make things thrive in life. This is number 3, “Golden” on MATT.
(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
2 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
Part 12
Falling from the number 1 position this week, the winner of the category of best new artist from the Grammys from London, England, Olivia Dean, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need” on MATT. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, a couple dedicated to true communication will see their relationship thrive, I believe.
And the new number 1 song is from another person nominated for best new artist at this year’s Grammys, Mr. Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr and his song “Back to Friends” from his album “I Barely Know Her,” on MATT. It is a statement of a commitment which I believe is very good. That statement comes from the fact that they have given themselves completely to each other, namely physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends. It is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, recognizing the importance of the physical commitment is a way to understand how a relationship can thrive in today’s world.
And we have reached the end of our time together for another Sunday. Thank you for your time today. We have given you the top 10 songs of our land this week along with some award winning songs according to the Grammys of this year. We have used the theme of “how can love thrive” from Lady Gaga’s Grammy award winning song “Abracadabra”. My prayer for you and me is that love will thrive in everything that we do. My thanks to the producers of “Message at the Top,” to the staff here at Mix 103, and to our sponsors, especially my friends at Hays Car and Truck Alignment and Auto World, TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. If you have some song suggestions, or if you want to comment on anything I have said, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo. I also hope you visit my website at www.frmikescully.com for some meditations on the Gospels and these songs and some great movies. Remember that you can enjoy us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 wherever you are by tuning to www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103. One final thought: "When the grass looks greener on the other side, it's time to fertilize your own lawn." To be sure! And that will enable us to thrive in life. The number 1 song from sombr and “Back to Friends”—will lead us out, and as we do that, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103, and our final advice to you among the other things we have said is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS and the beautiful state of West Virginia where I will be for a while, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
February 8, 2026
“Can Dancing Help”
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this Valentine’s Day week, 2026 and welcome to “Message at the Top.” We celebrate “Love Day” on Saturday. Close to 80 or 90% of the songs we play here at Mix 103 have “love” as part of them in one way or another, and it is only fitting that we have a day set aside to think about love. So, happy “love” day to all of you. Also, happy Super Bowl Sunday to those of you interested in football. Do you have an opinion? Most football fans do, and therefore I do, but an expert I am not. / But that is not why we are here. Get set now for the top current popular songs of our country right now and some songs of the past as well. My name is Fr. Mike and welcome to MATT!
I’m thinking about a song that entered the top 10 last week and I began thinking about dancing, something at which I have zero practical experience. According to Wikipedia, dance is the art of movement of the body, usually rhythmically and to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures. "A dance" is any one prescribed sequence of such movements, or the music to which it is performed, or an event at which it takes place. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication recognizable in other animals; in bee dances and behavior patterns such as mating dances.
Well, as I was thinking of all of that—without the fancy distinctions, etc.—I thought that dancing could be a means to help us at times. There are many areas of life in which you and I need a lot of help, and the relaxation and fun of dancing just may fit into that thought. I believe it is the reasoning behind Bruno Mars’s song.
It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,”he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video.
There is often a problem with doing something that we really like. We get so caught up in it that we neglect some other important things. And so the question that comes to my mind as I think of this action which I do not know very much about—the question that comes to my mind is “Can Dancing Help?” That will be an interesting subject for our songs to take up today.
Starting us off, from his album yet to be released, “The Romantic,” this is Peter Gene Hernandez better known as Bruno Mars and his song at number 7, ”I Just Might” on MATT.
(double) 7 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
THAT’S WHAT I LIKE / Bruno Mars
Part 2
Closing off a double play from him, and in his honor we will have two more double plays on our show today in his honor, that was Peter Gene Hernandez better known as Bruno Mars and his song, Song of the Year a number of years ag0, from his album “24K Magic,” “That’s What I Like” from 2017 on MATT. It is the message of the man in the relationship to his girlfriend to come and be with him. “Anything you want,” he sings, “just to put a smile on it. You deserve it, and I’m gonna give it to you. Gold jewelry shining so bright, strawberry champagne on ice, lucky for you, that’s what I like.” And he likes a bunch of other stuff that they can do together as well. In terms of our theme, being able to dance will certainly help their celebration.
Our first triple play of the day will begin with our number 5 song on our playlist at the present time from Taylor Swift. The song has been on our playlist for quite a while and cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and both will be willing to eventually work out the deep feelings of love between them. In terms of our theme, dancing with each other will no doubt help develop the relationship. Number 5 on our countdown right now from Taylor Swift and the first song from her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” “The Fate of Ophelia” on MATT.
(triple) 5 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
WITHOUT ME / Halsey
DON’T YOU WORRY CHILD / Swedish House Mafia
Part 3
A super song in my opinion. From producers known as Swedish House Mafia, and Swedish singer John Martin, and their song “Don’t You Worry Child” from 2012 on MATT. It is another song about a breakup and learning from it. The lesson the person in the song learns is that things will work out well. “There was a time I used to look into my father's eyes,” he sings. “In a happy home, I was a king, I had a golden throne. Those days are gone, now the memory's on the wall. I hear the songs from the places where I was born. Upon a hill across a blue lake, that's where I had my first heartbreak. I still remember how it all changed. My father said, 'Don't you worry, child. See heaven's got a plan for you.” The song points out the theological thought that God is at work even in the most dire of circumstances for young people in love. Even though there is a breakdown of a relationship in which love was present and no longer is, God or heaven is at work. In fact, the theological fact is that God will always be at work in every part of our lives, helping us achieve a good life. Even dancing could be better as a result, our theme today.
Before him, MATT presented Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, that is, Halsey at number 7 of all the songs of 2019, a former number 1 and her song “Without Me”. It is a song about someone that the lady in the song helped, but apparently he had forgotten her after he felt better. “Found you when your heart was broke,” Halsey sings, “I filled your cup until it overflowed, took it so far to keep you close, I was afraid to leave you on your own. I said I’d catch you if you fall, put you right back on your feet just so you could take advantage of me. Tell me, how’s it feel sittin’ up there? Feeling so high, but too far away to hold me. I’m the one who put you up there. I don’t know why / thinking you could live without me.” Her love was blind she sings, and in terms of our theme, dancing probably wouldn’t help the situation—she needs a lot more than that.
Important things being said there—not because I said them, but because we all need to understand them in order to understand life and love a little more. We’re talking about the best in pop music for the past 46 years on our show that we call MATT. Today, we’re studying each song with the thought of the truth of whether dancing might help the situation or not. Let’s take a little break right now, and let me lead you to that break with this thought from Mrs. or Mr. Anonymous: “I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.” Lots of people are hurting and most of the time we don’t know that they are hurting. That’s so true. You’ve got MATT on your dial today, this 8th day of February, 2026 the beginning of Valentine’s week. I’m your host Fr. Mike, and this is your invitation to stay right where you are—which is on the Mix.
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We continue with MATT on Mix 103. Welcome back to the only show of its kind in these parts. We take the messages of the songs we play here on Mix 103, and we look at those messages in the hopes that you and I can learn to live better. I’m Fr. Mike, your host, and it is great to have you with us again today. Our theme came from the thought of Bruno Mars’s song “I Just Might” and we are thinking about whether physical dancing can help the situations of our lives.
As promised, we will have three double plays of our lead singer Bruno Mars on our show today, and here is another one. Bruno Mars will often sing with other people in their hit music and this is one of them. The song itself is described as a drinking game song, and a song and video of pure energy as the lady in the relationship tells us to enjoy our friends in the APAPTEU, that is, in the different apartments of living. “Kissy face, kissy face sent to your phone,” they sing, “but I’m tryna kiss your lips for real; red hearts, red hearts, that’s what I’m on. Come give me somethin' I can feel. Don’t you want me like I want you; don’t you need me like I need you now? Sleep tomorrow, but tonight go crazy. All you gotta do is just meet me at the APAPTEU.” In terms of our theme what makes the place so special for them is the friendship it fosters. And dancing will fit right into that feeling, our theme today. A song about a place in both English and Korean, their song APT from New Zealand born and South Korean singer Rose whose real name is Roseanne Park, along with the help of Bruno Mars, APT meaning the Korean word APAPTEU or in English “Apartment” from last year on MATT.
(double) APT. / Rose f/ Bruno Mars
GRENADE / Bruno Mars
Part 5
Closing off our second double play from him, Bruno Mars and a former number 1 song from his album “Doo Wops and Hooligans,” and his song “Grenade” from 2010, and a song about someone who is not giving the way the person in the song thinks the other person should. “Easy come, easy go”, the man in the relationship sings, “That's just how you live, oh take it all, but you never give. Gave you all I had, and you tossed it in the trash. To give me all your love is all I ever asked / ‘cause what you don't understand is I'd catch a grenade for you, throw my hand on the blade for you, I'd jump in front of a train for you, I'd do anything for you. I would go through all this pain, take a bullet straight through my brain. Yes, I would die for you, / but you won't do the same.” He is willing to give everything; she is willing to give nothing. The video to the song shows the effects of the despair the person in the song feels, and it is NOT the way to work with a breakup. As we consider our theme today, what a person gotta do in life and love is to learn to really give to others. And dancing may help that couple, but it doesn’t seem to be in their consideration.
Now let’s go to a triple play of three songs on our playlist right now beginning with a song about intense love. One of the people who write about these songs says that this song explores the intensity and volatility of a passionate relationship. “We were fire,” they sing, “impossible to tame like oil in the ocean, no way to put out the flame. We were just runnin, eyes closed in the dark, headed for a wall, full speed, oh, it’s about to leave a mark. I only want you when you’re gone, playing like we’re done. I love your game, drive me insane.” That is, the feelings of an intense relationship are not easy to study or understand because they are too mixed up, and often cause problems. What is necessary is that we work with those feelings so that we have an idea of the good decisions that can be made in order to overcome those problems, and realize that we can solve even the toughest problems. And an immense help would be the togetherness that dancing, our theme today, provides. This is the number 8 song right now on our playlist coming from 3 artists, David Guetta at DJ, and Teddy Swims and Australian singer Toni Watson better known as Tones and I and their song “Gone Gone Gone” on MATT.
(triple) 8 GONE GONE GONE / David Guetta, Teddy Swims, Tones and I
6 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
4 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
Part 6
The song is called “Opalite”, Taylor Swift again, on our playlist right now with this song, at number 4 on MATT. It comes from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” again. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor’s fiance. Swift took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She described the song as a song about forgiving yourself for having gone through something that didn’t pan out the way you wanted it to/ and giving yourself permission to have it all figured out. So she sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. The lyrics use gemstone metaphors to visualize failed relationships as dark nights, in contrast to happiness as a bright opalescent sky. She refers to the dancing that is our theme today.
Before her, we played our number 6 song this morning on our playlist from
Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to make a love relationship real, and one of the helps to do that is to work at making the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces. Dancing, our theme today, just might fit into that.
We’ll be right back with two triple plays, and in order of appearance—listen to this line-up: Eminem, Charlie Puth, Justin Bieber. Raye, the band Jesus Jones and the band Glass Animals. Pop music always has a message and when you listen carefully, you hear some interesting stories and attitudes and sometimes pretty heavy commentary. We go to break with a thought from George Carlin, and therefore a little wacky: “Here’s all you have to know about men and women: Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” And I can hear the women in the audience: That’s so true! I’m Fr. Mike, inviting you to keep your dial right there, as we continue shortly with MATT.
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We continue with the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe the world. It is great to have you with us on Mix 103 and the MATT music network, our show being the show that takes the top 10 of today and yesterday, and discovers what the meanings of the songs are, often giving us some thoughts to live by, a show that works with the idea that it is just fine to enjoy the music, but we should also listen to the message. My name is Fr. Mike, your host, and we have featured the current top 10 song “I Just Might” from Bruno Mars, and we are talking about the possibility that dancing might help a situation.
As promised, let’s go to a song from Eminem and with him is Rihanna. It has a great video by the way. The words of the rap part of the song are difficult to catch, but it is the story of a mental sickness that has taken over the mind of the person in the song, maybe autobiographical—Eminem himself, who has given into the glory of the moment—“I wanted the fame,” he sings. Fame made him a balloon that finally blew. He calls it a monster that he has accepted. “I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed,” the person sings, “get along with the voices of my head. You’re trying to save me, stop holding your breath; and you think I’m crazy.” Really interesting song, and in terms of our theme today, being able to dance with someone is usually a way to make us feel better. From 2013 one of our very high songs of meaning, a really interesting song to study from Marshall Bruce Mathers III better known as Eminem and Robin Rihanna Fenty, better known as Rihanna, part of Eminem’s album “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” and the name of the song “The Monster” on MATT.
(triple) THE MONSTER / Eminem f/ Rihanna
ONE CALL AWAY / Charlie Puth
9 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
Part 8
The number 9 song right now in our countdown. It is a song that speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment again from his latest album “Swag” and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber on MATT. “’Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?” he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever’; did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. I get it. Way you got me all in my head, Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point that even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks, questions which the emotions of the moment only make more difficult and there must be days of re-commitment, and important words said in the process, and dancing, our theme today, can certainly help that situation.
Before him, we heard from Charlie Puth and his song “One Call Away”. It came from the album “Nine Track Mind” from 2015. He sings in the song “I’m only one call away, I'm only one call away; I'll be there to save the day. Superman’s got nothing on me. I'm only one call away. Call me if you need a friend. I just wanna give you love. Reaching out to you, so take a chance. Come along with me and don't be scared. I just wanna set you free. You and me can make it anywhere. For now, we can stay here for a while 'cause you know, I just wanna see you smile.” It seems the man in the relationship would like it to turn into a real relationship but for right then, he was just interested in making her feel good. And in terms of our theme, dancing can definitely help the process of making a relationship real.
Back to our playlist now as we begin another triple play. It comes from a British singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Raye whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen. She sings a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire for love song, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her. In terms of our theme, dancing would certainly help, but she has to discover him first. This is new to our top 10 from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” this is Raye and her song “Where is My Husband”, number 10 this week on MATT.
(triple) 10 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW/ Jesus Jones
HEAT WAVES / Glass Animals
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The song featured on my website today, www.frmikescully.com, the number 2 song for the whole year of 2020, from the British band Glass Animals from their album “Dreamland” and their song “Heat Waves” on MATT. It is the story in song of a man in the relationship who broke up with his fiancée for some reason and now is looking at that relationship in a philosophical way. “Last night all I think about is you; can’t make you happier now. Usually I put something on TV so I never think about you and me, but today I see our reflections clearly; in Hollywood, laying on the screen. You just need a better life than this. Heat waves been faking me out.” According to the leader of the group, the song is about realizing you can’t make everyone happy. And when we try to, then we have to cover up our feelings and hide inside TV shows or video games or drink or drugs. There will be negative feelings in life, and the solution must be something other than activities which hurt us in the long run, and in terms of our theme, dancing usually will help in the long run.
Before them, we heard an excellent song from the British band Jesus Jones who ceased recording at the turn of the century, their song, “Right Here, Right Now”. It is a 10+ category song, the highest I get, a song from 1991. It is from their album “Doubt”. They see the changes that have happened in the world and a world changing before their eyes and sing, “You know it feels good to be alive, right here, right now. There is no other place I want to be; right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history.” The song says to us: if we want to face the mediocrity of our lives, we have to face what causes the mediocrity right here right now, and work directly on them in some way. Can dancing help, our theme today? I think so; it might give us a time to do some serious thinking.
Which brings us to a break in the action, as we pause to think of how dancing may or may not help a situation. Let me give you this thought from my favorite author, Mr. Mark Twain: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Good thought, Mr. Twain—no cynicism there. Stay with us—you have MATT on your radio dial this morning on Mix 103.3.
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Part 10
This is the MATT music network, as we are apt to say here, as we play only the top 10 songs that have graced our airwaves over the past 46 years, and we talk about them from what they talk about—that is their meanings, saying as we do so that we can enjoy the music, but we should listen to the message so that the message can make our lives better than they are already. Happy Valentine’s Day week! I am Fr. Mike, and I welcome you back to our show that is using the thoughts of the latest song from Bruno Mars, “I Just Might,” namely dancing.
Let’s do a remembrance of a birthday this week on Saturday. Rob Thomas will be 54 years old, and let’s remember his song “Lonely No More.” It is a song about loneliness, a common problem in the young world. “Now it seems to me,” he sings, “that you know just what to say, but words are only words. Can you show me something else? Can you swear to me that you’ll always be this way. Well, I don’t want to be lonely no more. I don’t want to have to pay for this. I don’t want another lover at my door. It’s just another heartache on my list. I don’t wanna be angry no more. So when you tell me that you love me, know for sure I don’t wanna be lonely anymore.” It’s a great message because he is speaking directly to someone else, telling her that he doesn’t want the feeling of loneliness, and that is direct communication. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to keep good communication is to keep dancing together. This is the number 1 song from 2005 according to MATT from Rob Thomas from his album “Something To Be,” and his song “Lonely No More” on MATT.
(triple) LONELY NO MORE/ Rob Thomas
IT WILL RAIN/ Bruno Mars
LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN / Bruno Mars
Part 11
Closing off the third double play from him on our show today, MATT presenting Mr. Bruno Mars and his song "Locked out of Heaven" from his album "Unorthodox Jukebox" from 2012. The song is a song of total love to someone who has come into the life of the man in the song, and it has changed him to be a better person. "Never had much faith in love or miracles," he sings, "Never wanna put my heart on the line, but swimming in your water is something spiritual: I'm born again. 'Cause you take me to paradise, yeah, you take me to paradise and it shows 'cause you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven for too long." The song is controversial in religious circles because he describes his love encounter in terms of a spiritual encounter with God, and the use of the word "sex". In these songs physical love often is presented as a proof of love, but in reality, physical love is only part of love, and in fact, one of the lesser important parts of it. My opinion, of course, and in terms of our theme, a way to make us really feel better is to learn to love together with the natural feeling of love, and something that can easily be helped by dancing.
Before that song of the double play, we heard another song from him, Bruno Mars, and his song from the album “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” and his song “It Will Rain” from 2014. The song is a statement of love to someone from a negative point of view. He is singing that he loves her, and it will really show if they break up. The video to the song depicts the same thing adding the possibility that they have already broken up. “If you ever leave me,” the man in the relationship sings, “leave some morphine at my door ‘cause it would take a whole lot of medication to realize what we used to have. There’s no religion that could save me no matter how long my knees are on the floor. So keep in mind all the sacrifices I’m makin’ to keep you by my side, to keep you from walkin’ out the door. ‘Cause there’ll be no sunlight if I lose you. Every day, it’ll rain, rain, rain.” In the song, the man talks about how he has made sacrifices for the relationship. You wonder whether the person has to point that out, making sacrifices that is. If you have to point it out, the chances are that it will fail, and take away any hope for the relationship, but our theme, the good part of dancing, just may help build the relationship a little better.
As usual, we close with the top 3 songs right now. At number 3 is a statement of a commitment which I believe is very good. That statement comes from the fact that they have given themselves completely to each other, namely physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends. It is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, dancing may help in their discovery of the truth, but it may just exasperate the problem as well. This is number 3 right now from Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr and his song “Back to Friends” from his album “I Barely Know Her,” on MATT.
(double) 3 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
2 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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From the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X on MATT. It is at number 2 on our countdown as we speak. It comes from three talented Korean ladies known as Huntr/X. As I have said, it is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, dancing together might help that situation.
And the number 1 song this week comes from a Breakthrough Artist of the Year, from 26 year old Olivia Lauryn Dean from London, England. It has been number 1 for three weeks in a row now, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, dancing can certainly help the process of communication.
Our theme has been the question that came from Bruno Mars’s new song “I Just Might,” namely will dancing help a situation. My prayer for you and me is that we will find help as we try to become better people, like dancing if you are into that. If you would like to email me, my email address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com and at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, America, KS, 67601. My website is www.frmikescully.com where I give you some Christian meditations on the Gospels and songs of our show and movies, one for every day of the year. Our meditation today, as I mentioned is on the song “Heat Waves”. Thank you for your time today. Remember that you can join us on the web also every Sunday morning at 10 by tuning to www.hayspost.com on your internet device and choosing Mix 103 or KJLS. My thanks to the producers of our show, and to our sponsors especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. Enjoy the Super Bowl tonight if you are a football fan. A closing thought from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; / but we ask the reason for all evil, pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” Such a great insight—we complain about things like crazy, but we don’t appreciate all the good things we have. Like learning how we can get help from the popular music of today. Next week’s show will include the Grammys in our genre of music from 2026, winners and nominees; hope you’re here. Right now our number 1 song is from Olivia Dean and as we close with it, may I remind you—from beautiful downtown Lawrence KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Hold a good thought. Stay safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
February 1, 2026
“What is Beautiful in People”
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first Sunday morning of the winter month of February 2026 and what a winter we have had—and welcome to “Message at the Top.” I am Fr. Mike and you have your dial set to today’s best music Mix 103, the number one music station in Central Kansas. I invite you to listen to the music and learn from the message of that music as we are continuing our theme of enjoying the music, but at the same time listening to the message so that we can perhaps be better people. Olivia Dean had the number 1 song last week, and we’ll see if she remains there this morning.
The song featured on my website today, that is, www.frmikescully.com is Alessia Cara’s “Scars to Your Beautiful” and if you have listened to our show often enough, you know that I have chosen that song to be one of the 6 songs of the most meaning since 1980. What a great song this is.
Allow me first of all to give you some of the chatter about the song from the internet. In one of the interviews about the song, Alessia Cara said this: "Basically, the song is about body image. It's directed at women, but I think men can relate to it as well. It's just a song about these things that certain women go through on a daily basis in order to feel loved or in order to love themselves. I think that's such a thing that goes on in today's world. These weird things are instilled in us, you know? That tell us that we’re not good enough or that there's only one kind of beauty. This song basically is contradicting that idea. It's saying, 'Well, if the world doesn't like how you look then they should change. They should change their perspective. You don’t have to change yourself.' Now 'Scars To Your Beautiful' is basically about embracing yourself and finally coming to that conclusion where you feel love and you can love yourself. The point of the song is to reach as many women, or people, as possible.”
And I certainly hope she does. On the video, the song closes with her personal statement about the song which reads: “Oftentimes the world both directly and indirectly tells us that we shouldn’t be happy with ourselves if we don’t fit certain beauty standards. “Scars to Your Beautiful” is a reminder that beauty isn’t only one look, shape, size or color. It isn’t even always tangible. It comes in an endless amount of forms, and we need to recognize that.”
Indeed we should. And so she sings her refrain: “But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark. You should know you're beautiful just the way you are. And you don't have to change a thing; the world could change its heart. No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful.”
You really should check all the words on the internet. Great song here. I would say that anyone can change a little if they want, but our basic self is pretty good to start with. Introducing our theme of “What is Beautiful in People,” from Alessia Cara’s album “Know-It-All,” this is “Scars to Your Beautiful,” on my website today and our lead song on MATT.
(double) SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL / Alessia Cara
STAY / Zedd & Alessia Cara
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Closing off a double play from Alessia Cara and here, her song, “Stay” with the artistry of Anton Zaslavski, that is, Zedd, from 2017 from Zedd’s album “Stay +”. It is a song of the lady in the relationship urging the man to stay, even though she knows that she has to make it on her own. “You’ve got to make it on your own,” the lady sings, “but we don’t have to grow up. We can stay forever young, living on my sofa, drinking rum and cola underneath the rising sun. All you have to do is stay a minute.” She knows that she needs to grow up, but she is not willing to do that because she would have to let him go. She has forgotten how beautiful she is, our theme today and doesn’t need the fake relationship with the man.
Our first triple play begins with number 10 of our latest top 10 as of today, and we’ll give them to you in countdown fashion. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,”he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” In terms of our theme, there is beauty present in her, and that beauty can be expressed on the dance floor as well. It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man in the would-be relationship does not express what he will change in the process, but there is beauty in him as he compliments his friend. As usual with him—Bruno Mars, quite a good dance video. From his album yet to be released, “The Romantic,” this is Peter Gene Hernandez better known as Bruno Mars and his song at number 10—our theme next week—”I Just Might” on MATT.
(triple) 10 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
BURN / Ellie Goulding
9 HAPPEN TO ME / Russell Dickerson
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That was the song “Happen to Me” from Russell Dickerson, “Happen to Me” at number 9 this week from his album “Famous Back Home” on MATT and is about a very early relationship. She is fresh from a breakup and is drinking in a local bar, and the man meets her, and then she “happens to him.” “She said, ‘Shut up, come and dance with me,’” he sings, “and now she’s singin’ ‘Girls just wanna have fun’ at the top of her lungs. Don’t even know she’s about to wreck someone, and I’m in trouble now, ain’t even tryna get out. So, come on, take me down. Don’t know what happened tonight, don’t know what happened last week; don’t know what happened to her, but she’s about to happen to me.” And then in a pessimistic way, he sings “She’ll probably be the one who got away. But right now, I’m takin’ every second I can take, so keep talkin’, and we keep drinkin’. Oh, and I keep on fallin’ and she keeps on singin.’” Not a great beginning to their relationship, but it is a beginning and in every beginning there is the conviction that each are beautiful in their own way, our theme today.
Before him, we heard from Ellie Goulding from her album “Halcyon Days,” from 2014 and her excellent song “Burn”. It is a great song and can easily be interpreted to be a leadership song. She sings about having the fire of love and if enough people accept it, perhaps it will not die. Wouldn’t that be nice! Her words: “We don’t have to worry ‘bout nothing ‘cause we got the fire, and we’re burning something. They gonna see us from outer space. Light it up, like we’re the stars of the human race. When the light’s turning down, they don’t know what they heard. Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world. We’ll be raising our hands, shining up the sky ‘cause we got the fire, and we gonna let it burn.” One of the beautiful things about ourselves, our theme today, is the ability we all have to turn on the fire that is within each of us. Good song, good video.
We have some more top 10 music from the past and present as we look at our theme of realizing our beauty . Popular music always seems to have an approach to life about it, and popular songs always contain something to talk about. Let me take you to break with a thought from the “Iron Chancellor”, the first Chancellor of Germany, Otto Von Bismark: “When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.” Maybe a little cynical, but reality; telling the truth is really important in our world today and especially in romantic relationships, and one of the hallmarks of a truly beautiful person is his or her honesty. I’m Fr. Mike, inviting you to keep your dial right there as we continue shortly on MATT on Mix 103.
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We continue with the only show of its kind in this area as we celebrate winter in the heartland, MATT on Mix 103. Our guiding thought is to enjoy the music and listen to the message at the same time. My name is Fr. Mike, your host, and we began speaking about the beautiful in people, a theme which we took from the song featured on my website today, the excellent song “Scars to Your Beautiful” from Alessia Cara.
We are up to number 8 in our countdown. One of the people who write about these songs says that this song explores the intensity and volatility of a passionate relationship. “We were fire,” they sing, “impossible to tame like oil in the ocean, no way to put out the flame. We were just runnin, eyes closed in the dark, headed for a wall, full speed, oh, it’s about to leave a mark. I only want you when you’re gone, playing like we’re done. I love your game, drive me insane.” That is, the feelings of an intense relationship are not easy to study or understand because they are too mixed up, and often cause problems. What is necessary is that we work with those feelings so that we have an idea of the good decisions that can be made in order to overcome those problems, and realize that we are truly beautiful people who can solve even the toughest problems. This is the number 7 song right now on our playlist coming from 3 current singers, David Guetta at DJ, and Teddy Swims and Australian singer Toni Watson better known as Tones and I and their song “Gone Gone Gone” on MATT.
(double) 8 GONE GONE GONE / David Guetta, Teddy Swims and Tones and I
HAPPIER/ Marshmello
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Christopher Comstock there, better known as Marshmell0 and singing with him is the British group Bastille, and their song “Happier” from 2018 on MATT. The video to the song is an inspiring story, and the song uses the thought of a way to make a person happier. But it’s really a very sad song because the way he is going to make his girlfriend happier is to leave the relationship. “Lately, I’ve been thinking,” he begins the song, “I want you to be happier. With all that has happened, I think that we both know the way that the story ends. Know that means I’ll have to leave. Lately, I’ve been thinking I want you to be happier. So, I’ll go.” With our theme of what is beautiful in people, one of those things has to do with our ability to treat others well, even if it may hurt us a little in the process.
Another triple play now, and let’s begin it with a song which according to the musical critics, she is expressing her belief that one’s actions will decide a person’s fate. She is quite happy with her fate brought about by her actions. In that sense, karma is a “boyfriend” and a “god.” Her enemies do not fare as well. “You’re talking bad for the hell of it,” she sings, “addicted to betrayal, but you’re relevant. You’re terrified to look down, cause if you dare, you’ll see the glare of everyone you burned just to get there. It’s coming back around. And I keep my side of the street clean, you wouldn’t know what I mean. ‘Cause karma is my boyfriend, karma is a god, karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend. Karma’s a relaxing thought.” I changed some words a little. So, in her mind, “karma” will bring about good if you do good, and bad if you do bad. In terms of our theme, one of the beautiful things about our being is that we can choose to be good and be able to follow through. From her album “Midnights”, her song “Karma” from the songs of 2023 on MATT, from the one and only Taylor Swift on MATT.
(triple) KARMA / Taylor Smith
HERO / Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott
7 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
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The number 7 song right now in our countdown. It is a song that speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment again from his latest album “Swag” and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber on MATT. “’Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?” he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever’; did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. I get it. Way you got me all in my head, Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point that even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks, questions which the emotions of the moment only make more difficult and there must be days of re-commitment, and important words said in the process, so that the person will feel the beauty he possesses, our theme today.
Before him, we heard from Chad Kroeger from the group Nickelback and Josey Scott from the group Saliva, from the soundtrack of the first Spider-Man movie in 2002, and their song named “Hero” on MATT. They begin their song: “I am so high, I can hear heaven, but heaven don’t hear me. And they say that a hero can save us. I’m not gonna stand here and wait. I’ll hold onto the wings of the eagles, watch as they all fly away. Someone told me love will save us. But how can that be, look what love gave us. A world full of killing, and blood-spilling. That world never came.” And so, you’re led to believe that a hero like Spider-Man will do something about it. One thing that heroes have in common is their dream to be all they can be, and follow their dreams to help the world. It is part of their beauty, our theme today. The good thing is that it is part of the beauty of all of us.
We will continue to look at the top 10 of this week, and some top 10’s from the past as well. Right now, let’s pay some bills as DJ’s are wont to say. Let me take you to that break with a quote from Mr. Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do / than by the ones you did do.” That is, we all have beauty to share, but we have to want to share it. I am Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top”, this radio station is Mix 103, and we’ll be right back.
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 as that fine announcer just said, and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research at Mediabase 24-7. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of Mix 103. Our theme came from the song featured on my website today, the excellent song “Scars to Your Beautiful,” and our theme is “What is Beautiful in People?”
Let’s ask that question to our number 6 song in our countdown. It cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and both will be willing to eventually work out the deep feelings of love between them. In terms of our theme, the two lovers have shown their beauty to each other, and are ready to proceed in their love lives. Number 6 on our countdown right now from Taylor Swift and the first song from her new album “The Life of a Showgirl,” “The Fate of Ophelia” on MATT.
(triple) 6 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
CATCH MY BREATH / Kelly Clarkson
5 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
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That was our number 5 song on our playlist of today from Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to make a love relationship real, and a way to show one of traits of being a beautiful person. Our theme today – be a person who makes mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces.
Before him, we heard American Idol number 1, Ms. Kelly Clarkson, from her album: “Greatest Hits: Chapter One”, her song from 2012, “Catch My Breath”. I believe that it is a high song of meaning because of the determination shown in the song. “I don’t wanna be left behind,” she sings, “distance was a friend of mine, catching breath in a web of lies. I’ve spent most of my life riding waves, playing acrobat, shadowboxing the other half, learning how to react. I’ve spent most of my time catching my breath, letting it go, turning my cheek for the sake of the show. Now that you know this is my life, I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right. It’s all so simple now. Catch my breath, no one can hold me back, I ain’t got time for that. You helped me see the beauty in everything.” It can be looked at as a statement to a boyfriend, or as a prayer thanking God for allowing her to understand the beauty about life, our theme today.
Another triple play now, and let’s begin it with Meghan Trainor. Her song is a tongue-in-cheek type song saying that you don’t have to be thin and beautiful to be beautiful. “Yeah, it’s pretty clear,” she sings, “I ain’t no size two, but I can shake it like I’m supposed to do ‘cause I got all the right junk in all the right places. I see the magazine, workin’ that Photoshop. We know that ain’t real, ‘cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. You know I won’t be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that’s what you’re into, then go ahead and move along. Because you know I’m all about that bass, no treble.” The words of the song are a little too graphic for me, but it is a very good thought. We have to be satisfied with who we are. We can change, of course, but beauty has more to do with internals than with externals, “beauty” being our theme today. From her album “Title,” this is Meghan Trainor and her song “All About That Bass” on MATT.
(triple) ALL ABOOUT THAT BASS/ Meghan Trainor
ALL I WANNA DO / Sheryl Crow
4 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
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The song is called “Opalite”, Taylor Swift again, on our playlist right now at number 4 on MATT. It comes from probably THE most popular album these days, namely, her album “The Life of a Showgirl.” Perhaps her own explanation is necessary first. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor’s fiance. Swift took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She described the song as a song about forgiving yourself for having gone through something that didn’t pan out the way you wanted it to and giving yourself permission to have it all figured out or not marry the first person you ever dated. So she sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing though the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about Swift's state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. The lyrics use gemsotne metaphors to visualize failed relationships as dark nights, in contrast to happiness as a bright, opalescent sky. That bright opalescent sky is part of the beauty that we all possess.
Before her, we heard a great song to study, from the year 1994 from her album “The Very Best of Sheryl Crow,” Sheryl Crow, and “All I Wanna Do.” She tells quite a story in song: they had met in a bar, searching for a way to have a great time, because he had told her, "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die." She wondered whether he had "ever had fun in his life." Now, / she thought, they were having fun, "drinking beer at noon on Tuesday." Both were looking for a good time, some fun; that was all they wanted all day and all night "until the sun comes up on Santa Monica Boulevard." / In the midst of this intoxicated self-amusement appears a "happy couple," a "happy couple dangerously close to one another." They cause a stir. They were dangerously close and happy, perhaps two lovers totally committed to one another, perhaps two people who had found what they were searching for, found love and commitment and responsibility, and yet still interested in having a fun time. It was a moment of learning for those in the bar. Do they learn? The song does not say exactly, but one is led to believe that they do not, because the story ends only with the refrain: "All I wanna do is have a little fun.” Working with our theme of what makes us beautiful, the couple was showing the beauty of what should be.
And we have played our way to another break this first Sunday of February Sunday morning of 2026. It’s great to have you with us this morning, and I hope you stay around for our final segment which will includes some songs of birthday people today. A thought to close out this segment: it comes from author Sam Keen: “We come to love not by finding a perfect person / but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Great statement, part of a beautiful train of thought from a beautiful person. There is more good thought in front of you—stay with us here on MATT on Mix 103.
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Good morning to all of you as we close out that morning, and welcome back to MATT, your top 10 show on Mix 103, a show that gives you the top 10 songs of the day in our area, but we also go into the top 10’s from the past, and with all of our songs, we not only play the music, but we give you their messages, often finding that the messages of popular music can help us live better lives in this complicated world that we are part of. We always say that we should enjoy the music and listen to the message. The message we are working with this morning is the fact that in life there is a lot of beauty and we are asking the question “What is Beautiful in People?”
During our segment 10 presentation right now, let’s wish some happy birthdays. First of all, Harry Styles is 32 years old today. The song that we are remembering him with is his song “Golden”. It is a song that speaks of being close, but the possibility of a break-up seems to be the dominant thought. “Golden,” he sings, “As I open my eyes, hold it, focus, hoping, take me back to the light; I know you were way too bright for me. I’m hopeless, broken, so you wait for me in the sky, browns my skin just right. You’re so golden. I’m out of my head and I know that you’re scared because hearts get broken. I don’t wanna be alone. Loving you is the antidote.” That may be, but it sounds like they have a bunch of work to do before their love will blossom. And you can bet, as with all beginning love relationships, both consider the other to be beautiful, but they may forget it in the future. We celebrated with his song “Golden” from his album “Fine Line” from 2020, happy birthday, Harry Styles, on MATT. (triple) GOLDEN / Harry Styles bd
TORN / Natalie Imbruglia bd
NOT OVER YOU / Gavin DeGraw bd
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Happy birthday to him, Gavin DeGraw, who will be 49 on Wednesday. We celebrated it with his song “Not Over You.” It is from his album called “Sweeter”, and his song “Not Over You” from 2011. It is a love song about what happens when there is a breakup in a romantic love situation. The man in the relationship is remembering when the lady was with him, and it is a good memory, but she is no longer there. The man begins the song, “Dreams—that’s where I have to go to see your beautiful face anymore. If you ask me how I’m doing, I would say I’m doing just fine. I would lie and say that you’re not on my mind, but I go out and I sit down at a table set for two, and finally I’m forced to face the truth—no matter what I say, I’m not over you." It is a very painful time in the person in the song’s love life. I phrase the theme of the meditation on the song on my website, “In every instance of our lives, we must face the truth of what is happening.” And the truth of what is happening in that song is that there will be no relationship. They both remain beautiful people, our theme today, but sometimes the relationship will not work out.
Before him, we wished another happy birthday, this time to Natalie Imbruglia, and a song about pain. 1998 was the year it was popular. It is from her album “Left Of The Middle”, her song “Torn”. Her birthday is this Wednesday when she will be 51 and this Australian singer inspires a question concerning oour theme today. How is it that something so beautiful is often so painful? How can a relationship that was so close and full of love end up so far apart? How can sorrow pierce a heart that once was so full of love? Is it true perhaps that love is pain? / Love may not be pain, but with love, there is always the possibility of pain. Allowing for that risk is part of love. Natalie Imbruglia presents that fact in her song “Torn.” “I thought I saw a man brought to life,” she sings. “He came around like he was dignified. … Well, you couldn’t be that man I adored. You … don’t seem to care what your heart is for. … There’s nothing where he used to lie. … Nothing’s fine, I’m torn.” She goes on to explain what all of that pain does to her: “I’m all out of faith, … I’m cold and I am ashamed. … Illusion never changed into something real. … I can see the perfect sky is torn. You’re a little late, I’m already torn.” She had taken the risk. And suffered pain as a result. There can be little doubt, at least in this imperfect world, that love and pain are often intertwined. But it is important to remember that even with pain, we are all beautiful people.
As usual, we close with the top 3 songs right now. At number 3 is a statement of a commitment which I believe is very good. That statement comes from the fact that they have given themselves completely to each other, namely physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends. It is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, probably the high emotions of physical togetherness have taken over their lives, and they both must face them, and eventually be content with them as they work their lives from an early love relationship to a later one. My guess is that part of the problem in their relationship is the feeling that they had to express themselves physically before they were ready. The beauty of such a gift is an everlasting commitment, but it can be made too soon. This is number 3 right now from Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr and his song “Back to Friends” from his album “I Barely Know Her,” on MATT.
(double) 3 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
2 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Another song that has the name “Golden” from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X on MATT. It is at number 2 on our countdown as we speak. It comes from three talented Korean ladies known as Huntr/X. As I have said, it is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if we are determined to do the right thing, we are showing the fact that we are indeed beautiful people, our theme today.
And the number 1 song this week comes from a Breakthrough Artist of the Year, from 26 year old Olivia Lauryn Dean from London, England. It has been number 1 for two weeks in a row, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, perhaps the best definition of a truly beautiful person is that they all know the importance of communication and freely uses it well.
Our theme today has been the fact that we are all beautiful people, no matter what has happened. It came from Alessia Cara’s opening song “Scars to Your Beautiful”. My prayer for you and me is that we discover the fact in the long run: we are indeed beautiful—all of us, and we can rejoice in that fact. My thanks to Jeff Leiker, the producer of “Message at the Top,” to the staff here at Mix 103, and to our sponsors, some of whom include my friends at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, at TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and at Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. If you have any suggestions for me, or if you want to comment on anything I have said, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com. Our meditation today is our lead song and a great one it is—”Scars to Your Beautiful.” Remember that you can join us on the web if you are away from your radio by choosing www.hayspost.com every Sunday morning at 10 Central Time and clicking on Mix 103. A thought to lead us out comes from my favorite author, Mr. Mark Twain: “The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.” Whoa, cynical as always, but a truth—pun intended—that we should learn, and if we remember it, it will help us in every relationship, truly making us beautiful people.
The number 1 song in our land today is from Olivia Dean and her song “Man I Need,” and as you listen to it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103, and our advice to you among the other things that we have said is to hold a good thought. My name is Fr. Mike Scully. Thank you for your time today. Remember to catch the Grammys tonight—and you can bet that we’ll have something to say about them. From the beautiful downtown of Lawrence KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean