You know, I couldn’t care less about the lyrics most times. I started following a music critic in the past year or so on social media and he mainly criticizes the lyrics, the words, rarely the beat. After hearing him, I channelled my inner critic and focused on the lyrics. I remember for the song “Talk dirty” By Jason Derulo, I was so upset at the lyrics especially when they didnt rhyme. However, after following less regularly, Ive continue to care much more about the beat. I want to say music instead of beat but one of my teachers said music is the lyrics. I will say music as in beat, the sound. Anyway, sometimes music has the ability to
Anyway, sometimes music has the ability to MEELLT your heart. It is so pleasurable. Theres this song by Lauv called “The Other.” Anytime I listen to it, it melts my heart. It is feeling I rarely feel. I feel so at ease, so relaxed, more than satisfied. I want to drop everything and just listen to the song. I don’t think Im doing it justice, though. I LOVE music like that. Taylor Sift’s music has always done that for me too. Her music and voice are just amazing. Say what you will about TS. Ive had a song called 1000 Times stuck in my head for months. At first, I thought it was a slow paced song. Then I thought it was a medium paced song. I don’t typically listen to music like that. For a long time, I thought a lyric was one thing and then when I read the lyrics, they were completely different. It changed my perspective of the song. I thought it was “your tempo won’t help much…” (don’t ask me how I got that), but the lyric is “The tenth of November… the years almost over.” That I think is much more nostalgic and depressing because we get nostalgic when the year is almost over and we think about what happened the past year. I get a sense of urgency and a little bit of regret- urgency to make the best of the month, days left. I get depressed because what did I do this past year? When I used it in my imovie, I had a new understanding. I had to listen to it over and over as I was editing. It was a different context for listening to it. I contemplated the lyrics more. I thought, when he sings about dreams, it sounds innocent so Ill add clips of children and such. You get to make it your own when making an imovie like we all did in class and all our movies are examples of that. Then there are some songs that stay with you forever. My English teacher showed the class a trailer for a movie called Pina freshman year and the song has stayed with me since. It reoccurs in my mind from time to time. I mostly get introduced to songs from commercials (they have really good songs! ex: just recently found “More More More”- Dagny- Target Ad. Got an 80’s dance vibe), movies and TV shows. I just use Shazam.
