Music 1020

For this blog post, I decided to write about the Vox Produced Podcast Called Switched on Pop about the episode, one hundred fifty-four. This episode is about the artist Lauv. Lauv is one of my more recent favorite artists. I really like a lot of his recent songs and he has just barely released his first full album. What I have not realized about his music until now is that a lot of them are pretty sad sounding lyrics and are actually fairly heavy topics, but are spun in such fun upbeat pop way. They go on to talk about how he wrote his song **** I'm Lonely, which is actually a good song that I like. He talks about how he wrote the beat while in an airport and on the plane on his tour. He then is asked by a viewer what his line "Its been me myself and why did you go", and he says that it was suggested by one of his friends and was meant to be an expectation subversion and calls it a mind rhyme. A mind rhyme is when like when it leads you to think a word but then replaces i...

For this blog post, I decided to write about the Vox Produced Podcast Called Switched on Pop about the episode, one hundred fifty nine. This episode is about Joe Exotic. For those of you who don't know Joe Exotic is the main character of the new Netflix TV show called Tiger King. The show is about Joe Exotic who is the owner of a private farm that primarily focuses on him and his tigers. I have not seen the show but I have heard quite a bit about it from a lot of people. I did not know that in the past Joe had been a country songwriter, and I don't think that anyone who watches his show knows this either. His song I Can't Believe is a song about an event that was a massacre at the Zanesville Zoo in Ohio. It is another private Zoo where the owner was not mentally stable and he left out all of his animals and a lot of them died and so did he. The song is about how afterwards a lot of people were outraged at how little there was to stop and/or prevent something like this from ...

For this week I decided to pick the song YMCA by The village people. And first of all, I just want to say that I am super stoked that we are finally getting to songs that I actually know and recognize. It makes this class so much more enjoyable, and easy to remember everything when it is songs that either I know, or I know of other songs by these artists. I really like this song because it is just a classic that everyone knows and has heard hundreds of times, and it even has its own dance universally attached to it. I think I first heard this song in elementary, it was a super easy dance that they could teach us and a super-easy song to remember as a little kid. I also just found out while writing this blog that YMCA actually stand s for Young Men's Christian Association this brings a whole new context to the song and almost makes it somewhat of a religious song since the whole thing is essentially promoting a church group. Also apparently it became a gay anthem? But I have read co...

For this week I decided to pick the song "A taste of honey" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I really like the use of the trumpet in this song it is almost the lyrics of this song and all the other instruments are the backups to it. This song is very swinging in its mood. I am willing to bet that it was a very popular song choice for people to dance to in clubs when it came out. Although the main chorus is very swingy, there are parts where it really slows down and becomes much more intimate which I think would have made it even better for dancing to as you could have your special moments with your partner, and then you could pick the pace right back up again and start swinging around. Another thing that I wanted to point out about this song that is also very impressive is the fact that it does not even have any vocals. I think it is very impressive that a song with no vocals from this time period would become so popular and influential that it would end up being a song...

For this week I decided to pick the song, "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" by, James Brown. This song focuses a lot on the instruments, it has a lot of long breaks in between verses and sometimes even lines. The song is almost four and a half minutes long and without these pauses, I bet it would only be around three minutes long maybe even shorter. The song is definitely something that I could hear being played whilst the credits roll on an old world war 2 era movie (not necessarily focused on world war 2). A lot of the lyrics in this song are about Papa doing a lot of the new dances. From what I can tell it sounds like this is coming from an older person during the time since it is told from the point of view of Papa. But it is him saying that he can do all the cool things that all the young-ins are doing nowadays. Although I am no expert in the slang of that time, it sounds like what an old person would say when they are trying to be hip and imitate what the kids are sayi...

For the sixth week in this class, I chose to write about the song Mystery Train by Elvis Presley for my blog. It is one of the many songs by Elvis Presley that became very popular. Elvis is probably the most well-known music artist ever and him and his songs will be remembered forever. This song is very catchy and upbeat. It is a song that I could very easily see in an old movie playing during a road trip montage of two people driving across the country in their car. I am not entirely sure what it is about, but from what I can tell it is about someone who let someone they loved go and they rode off in a train, and how they are not going to let that happen again because "she's mine all mine". The song is very repetitive. It really only has about four to five lines or so that are just constantly repeated over and over again throughout the song. I guess it goes to show how popular Elvis actually was because this song didn't have a lot to say, I pretty much could explai...