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World, play it again
"If music be the food of love, play on" - Duke Orsino to his court in regards the fair Olivia at the very beginning of Twelfth Night. I'm not a huge Shakespeare fan, it must be said, but that is without a doubt one of my favourite lines of literature. I envision including it in my wedding, maybe as a banner across the head table during the sit down meal.
By Laura McCann6 years ago in Beat
Tunes to Get Grooving To (Part 25)
Hi all! Welcome back to Tunes to Get Grooving To! Before I dig into the music of this week, I have a quick announcement. Next week will be week 26 of TTGGT which means I’ve been writing this series for half a year now. As I know I recently started Novels to Discover, a series similar to this but with book reviews. With that being said, NTD didn’t really take off and so I’ve unfortunately decided to stop that series.
By Leigh Hooper6 years ago in Beat
"Inside Friend" by Leon Bridges almost rips off Stevie Wonder
Fridays are my favorite day of the week, because I can put on my weekend pants and listen through a plethora of new music. Many of the songs that come out on Fridays don’t have a strong lasting impact on me; unless it is a single or an album from an artist who’s been quiet for awhile, it usually comes and goes. When I saw a collaborative single between Leon Bridges and John Mayer released in early April, I assumed it would follow the aforementioned “path to obscurity.” But from the first four notes, it had an unrelenting grip on my ear. It wasn’t a groovy bassline, it wasn’t a catchy chorus, and it wasn’t a shredding guitar lick that caught my attention. I’ve heard those exact four notes before.
By Duncan Holzhall6 years ago in Beat
Hazard: The Song of Secrets and Suspicion
My mother has been the one to introduce singers and bands to me as a young girl, to educate me on the songs she loves. When this song played in the car, my mother would tell me about the story of this song. About the young man that was the narrator of this song that couldn't catch a break.
By Samantha Parrish6 years ago in Beat
Musical Digest: Halsey, Marshmello "Be Kind"
Like many people during this horrid and unprecedented time, I had underwent a rollercoaster of emotions... Today my work family was torn in two as lay offs became more and more apparent...the previous night we're laughing, talking, exchanging gifs to now having our entire dynamic fall to pieces.
By Paulina Pachel6 years ago in Beat
No Pain
My song, ”No pain” it’s a nice up beat song that is about feeling when people are saying hateful words to you or it can be anyone who you know that has always been in your face saying all kinds awful things about you to your face and so instead of fighting with your hands to get back your fighting with just using your words, which is your mouth. This song here is a winner, this songs is giving you like an relax type of vibe well you feeling to yourself where you can use this advice and give it to others to use, but know that song here is the one to listen too.. But not only is this song being innovative, but, still, at the same time it's giving you hot style of a beat vibe. Then when you add my voice, because then with my voice sounding so uniquely good, you can’t get enough of it. Listen to the genre within my sound and what sounds best fits me, but then again, going into the song I do preferably sound more pop with a hint of rhythm and blues. So, I truly do believe that the sound right here is a good tone to hear. You can just feel the vibe too and play over and over again and again and again. So, when you listen to the song, remember that it’s going to bring you back into a time of getting called on somebody that cannot stand what type of person you are or someone that is a hateful person to be around. Think about the song itself in words, the message, and how you feel in your heart where this song would fit into place within sharing in life like the song, because I know for sure that this song here can help people here get through the days and the years or as if to say this song has been playing for years and it’s an new/old hearing joint that gets on up and popping all over the radio to me to want to hear all day long. It may only come a time can tell thing, when the song gets on and popping that the tune of the song you can never get it off of your mind, because that’s how good the song sounds in all the above categories of music period. Just because this song here is mad out of one loop, that doesn’t mean it takes it away from the music effect of having that original musical sound. We all know that a sound in music or the melody of the track can have that effect on a listening ear because you know just what to think about it when a person is listening to a song, and you o this type of song will definitely have a field on to listen to it every time they listen to their favorite song on their playlist or in their music listing you know. The main thing to see is that the words are at its best, that the sound is there and, also that the melody and harmony is there on key and point. For a person to listen to a good song that becomes a hit from continually listening to this song, we'll give you chills to make you want to keep listening to tracks and just makes you want to jam to it all day long like never before, yeah so you can tell that I put my all into it in this song just by all the music elements.
By Chelsea Gary6 years ago in Beat
The Kendrick Lamar Bracket. Top Story - May 2020.
This was so hard. Something you can say about both this bracket and the instrumental for “The Blacker The Berry.” One of the things I hated most about this bracket, as is the issue with any bracket, is that some of the pairings, as inevitable as they might be, made for tougher decisions than I wanted. In selecting who would move on in my bracket, I tried to judge these songs as objectively as possible based on how they work within the album, how effective they communicate their message, how ear-grabbing the music is, and I only relied on subjectivity when deciding a dead heat. Here were some of the more difficult or, in some cases controversial, choices I made.
By Duncan Holzhall6 years ago in Beat
