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Week 3

This week for my blog I will choose to write about the song, "I Got Rhythm" by, George/Ira Gershwin. I think this song is very weird for how it kind of seems very boastful and prideful. This wouldn't be so weird if it would have come out in more recent years. There are way more arrogant songs now, but for the time it was written in, I would think that it would be received a lot more harshly than it seems to have been. But it is very impressive how loud Ira Gershwin can get. I was definitely not expecting it to sound at all like that when I was looking at the album cover picture. I think it is super cool how different of styles different people can have when they are singing. How some people can make being very quiet and soft sound really good and make it work, while there are other people that can fill an auditorium without even am microphone and have it still somehow sound not like they are screaming. This is very dumb and I don't like doing these assignments. I wish...

Week 2

The song Soldiers Joy, by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, is a song where the beat does not really match the weight of what they are singing about. It reminds me a lot of Pumped up Kicks by, Foster the People. The song is about a soldier who has returned from war and has a bad case of PTSD. So bad that the only way that he can escape the reality of the terrible things he has been through is to drink away his pain. But that alone isn't weird or unusual by itself. What makes it strange is how upbeat and fun of a tune this song has. If you don't think about the lyrics and just listen to the music it sounds a lot like a fun jam. Pumped Up Kicks is similar to this because it is a song about school shootings/ school shooters, and it also has a very upbeat and happy tune to it. I actually kind of actually like the tune of this song. It has a pretty long intro, and it takes a bit for the vocals to actually start. But once they finally do, it is very fast-paced and is something tha...

January 13th

My name is Drew Higbee, and my favorite music group is either AJR or Quinn xcii, and my favorite genre is POP.

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