{"version":"https:\/\/jsonfeed.org\/version\/1","title":" Reflecting on the past \"Ritual de lo Habitual\" Jane\u2019s Addiction by Penny Piper","home_page_url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/reflecting-on-the-past-ritual-de-lo-habitual-janes-addiction-by-penny-piper\/","feed_url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/reflecting-on-the-past-ritual-de-lo-habitual-janes-addiction-by-penny-piper\/json","description":" Reflecting on the past \"Ritual de lo Habitual\" by Penny Piper","items":[{"id":"o186-1897-680b67ad6e974","url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/reflecting-on-the-past-ritual-de-lo-habitual-janes-addiction-by-penny-piper\/post\/reflecting-on-the-past-ritual-de-lo-habitual-by-penny-piper\/","title":" Reflecting on the past \"Ritual de lo Habitual\" by Penny Piper","date_published":"2025-04-25T10:45:01+00:00","content_html":"

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Album Review: Ritual de lo Habitual — Jane’s Addiction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I had just fallen in love with Jane’s Addiction. "Nothing’s Shocking" was still fresh in my head — with “Summertime Rolls,” “Mountain Song,” “Jane Says”… all of it. It was dreamy and weird and sexy and wild in that perfect late-80s, teenage-brain way. You could float in it. You could crush to it. You could grow into it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>And then two years later, we’re hanging out with our girlfriend’s corpse for three days.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I mean, I was sixteen. And “Three Days” hit like an acid trip I didn’t ask for. I had never thought about love that deeply. Not like that. It didn’t even feel like love — it looked like a horror show. Like the kind of grief that wraps itself around your brain and doesn’t let go. And I couldn’t let go. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It was one of those moments where music stops being just music and turns into a portal. It forced me to ask questions I didn’t have the language for. What would I do? Could I love that hard? Could I survive that kind of loss?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The thing is, I trusted Perry. After Nothing’s Shocking, he’d earned that. So even though it felt like he was banging a corpse in the middle of a fever dream, I stayed with it. I didn’t run. I didn’t judge. I tried to understand. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>And it changed me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It changed how I looked at love. At death. At the meat suit we wear. It cracked open this fear I didn’t even know I had — that losing the person you love most could drive you to a place beyond sanity. It made me face that fear with him. And feel it. And carry it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

“Three Days” is manic and beautiful and terrifying. It still haunts me. The whole album does. Ritual de lo Habitual wasn’t just an album — it was a shift. A reckoning. A sacred, messy, sexual, psychedelic spiral of grief and god and desire. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>So yeah… this album changed my life. No exaggeration. It made me braver. It made me weirder. And it made me realize that real love might hurt like hell — but it’s worth staying present for the ride. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

All the best, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Penny Piper<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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