|
About This Author
I am SoCalScribe. This is my InkSpot.
|
Blogocentric Formulations
Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).
Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:
 "The Soundtrackers Group" 
"Blogging Circle of Friends "
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"
"JAFBG"
"Take up Your Cross"
Thanks for stopping by! 
April 21, 2018 at 10:38pm April 21, 2018 at 10:38pm
| |
"Blog Harbor from The Talent Pond" PROMPT (DAY 21): Free Day! You can write about any song you want, for any reason you want. Tell us something!
For the final day of music blogging, I'm going to go with one of the songs in regular rotation for me these days. "This Feeling" by Abby Anderson is a song that I think I discovered just listening to a random Amazon Music playlist one day and it's stuck with me ever since. I'd never heard of Abby Anderson before; apparently she's only twenty years old and got her start on Glenn Beck's show of all places, singing a rendition of "My Country Tis of Thee" (her version is titled "Let Freedom Ring") that became so popular it landed on both the Billboard and iTunes charts.
As she works on her debut album, she's released a handful of songs, covers, and other performances to get her career off the ground. Most of them are pretty good, but "This Feeling" is still my favorite:
I think it's a fun song and she's got a great voice for such a young performer; she's already made a handful of "up and coming" lists, especially in and around Nashville where she moved after graduating from high school early to focus on her music career. I'm really interested to hear her first album and see what she comes out with next, but in the meantime I'll be enjoying this song on repeat for a while longer.
|
| |
"Blog Harbor from The Talent Pond" PROMPT (DAY 20): It's Karaoke Night! When it's your turn to go up on stage, what song will you perform and why?
I am not a karaoke person. Mostly because, unlike those crazy audition people on American Idol, I fully recognize that I'm a terrible singer and I'm completely okay with that. Which means that choosing karaoke songs gets a bit complicated because I can't pick a song that requires any sort of decent vocal range to perform, but I also refuse to pick cliched or bad songs. Which means that I can't really go with songs like "Hello" by Adele or "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston but I won't pick easier songs like, "Build Me Up Buttercup" by The Foundations or "Stay" by Lisa Loeb.
I was tempted to go with something ridiculous and over the top. I mean, no one cares how bad you're singing when you're performing "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot or "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. They're supposed to be bad songs. And even though there are some true classics that are always crowd-pleasers, I wouldn't want to be the fifth person singing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" or Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" that night.
For a long time, I thought my karaoke song would either be "I Love Rock & Roll" by Joan Jett, or some kind of a hip-hip song with fun lyrics... so I figure why not make the best of both worlds and pick a hip-hop song that samples the Joan Jett classic? "Mind on the Road" by Rev Run.
Joseph Simmons a.k.a. Reverend Run from Run-D.M.C. fame is a talented rapper from a talented family (he's also the brother of Def Jam Records founder Russell Simmons), and there's no question about the influence he's had on the hip hop world. He's also an actual ordained minister, although I'm less enthusiastic about his Christian leadership, mostly because he's a proponent of the controversial prosperity gospel (which has widely been criticized as promoting idolatry and exploiting the poor). That said, he's still a hell of a rapper!
|
| |
"Blog Harbor from The Talent Pond" PROMPT (DAY 19): Pick a song that brings you back to a specific event in your life. But the catch is... LOVE SONGS ARE NOT ALLOWED!
Even though it's kind of a romantic song depending on how you interpret the lyrics, the reason I picked this song is most definitely not romantic. Mostly because it involves several male teachers in my high school's history department. 
For years, our high school had problems with its pep rallies. Not much enthusiasm, pretty bland and predictable activities, etc. Imagine your stereotypical high school from any teen show; they have the marching band play, the football players and cheerleaders pump up the crowd, the class president making some announcements... literally, it's every stereotype you could possibly imagine.
One school year (I think it was my sophomore year), the school hired a bunch of new history teachers. It was a weird situation where a few had left and a really large class was coming in, so they needed extra teachers in all departments but especially history. Three of the new history teachers talked two of the existing ones and convinced them to put on a little skit. Unbeknownst to pretty much everybody (even the administration who thought they were going to do some kind of boring history presentation), they instead dressed up in the all-white outfits from this video and lip-synched "I Want It That Way," complete with choreographed dance moves and a handful of female student they conspired with to scream and cheer and hold up signs and throw flower petals at them.
It was definitely one of the more memorable pep rallies at our school and the best part was that it actually kicked off an unofficial competition among the departments to come up with increasingly "out there" stunts to keep the students interested and excited to show up at pep rallies. The chemistry teacher blew up a piñata in the middle of the football field, the physical education teachers had a "strong man/woman" competition. It was the tipping point that made the last couple of years of high school go from dull and uninspired to really fun and entertaining.
|
© Copyright 2024 Jeff (UN: jeff at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Jeff has granted InkSpot.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
|
