Listen VI: Foo Fighters’ “Asking for a Friend”

In my previous Listen post, I wrote a love letter to my third-favorite Foo Fighters song, “Walk” (the third single and last song from the band’s seventh studio album Wasting Light). I shared how the song gave me light in a truly dark period in 2011. I also shared that during my sing-along to “Walk” at my second (and best) Foos show last October 4, 2025, it started with a few seconds of tears and ended up singing along angrily. That was a cathartic moment for me.

Then, on the night of October 23, 2025, after having a lovely birthday dinner with my family (it was my Mother’s birthday), the Foo Fighters released their newest song, “Asking for a Friend”. Little did I know that, once again, I would feel multiple emotions all at once because of a song from my all-time favorite band.

The newest Foo Fighters song, “Asking for a Friend”.
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Song of the Moment XCIX: Foo Fighters’ “My Hero”

I almost wrote a lengthy Song of the Moment post, but I ended up erasing it entirely. Honestly, tonight, I’d rather prepare myself for my second mind-blowing Foo Fighters show tomorrow night at the Singapore Grand Prix. And one of the things I’m looking forward to is singing along as the ferocious Dave Grohl shreds the guitar and screams these lines from my Song of the Moment, “My Hero”:

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

The music video of Foo Fighters’ “My Hero”.

Happiest weekend, everyone! See you in the next post!

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Header image: Petr Ganaj of Pexels. Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Notes to Self XIX

I, The Deranged Writer, love any type of music. On every music device I have ever owned, from my third-generation iPod Nano (anyone remember that?) to my iPhone 15, my music library is a melting pot of artists and songs. I was not vocal about my love for various kinds of music though; only a few friends knew this fact.

But that all changed when I found myself on a Dave Grohl interview marathon (for the nth time) on an afternoon in 2011.

This is my 19th Notes to Self.

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