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Music Notes

A simple music themed blog for Jeff’s "Invalid Item"

challenge, and also to dump my thoughts about the 48 Hour Media Challenges when I don’t feel like creating a story or poem from the provided material. I may also add random poetry in here if I feel like it doesn’t qualify for a separate item.

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WakeUpAndLive️~Happiness

Sep 4, 2024 at 8:35pm
In response to "Challenge Day 4 (Art in His Soul?)"

Wow, strangely enough, I only discovered this band with Demons a few weeks ago. Coincedence!

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Waltz en France

Sep 2, 2024 at 9:04pm
In response to "Challenge Day Two"

That sounds like a terrible work situation. Some bosses are exploitative, and will wring every last drop of sanity out of their workers. Not all, but some, and often, you don't see it until you're deep into it. Glad you got out of there.

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Amethyst Angel🍂🧡

Aug 8, 2024 at 7:11am
In response to "August Media Prompt Challenge"

All opinions welcome, Olivia's writing adult stuff

... I'm just a bit of a fussbudget with my music

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Olivia's writing adult stuff

Aug 8, 2024 at 7:09am
In response to "August Media Prompt Challenge"

Okay, bear with me, hon, but maybe I'm too dumb as a European to "see", but...

Where are the "bleep-able" words and "strong" content you caught in that song? Actually, I found it pretty good, realistic & authentic... un-censored. Here it would be rather E-rated.

Maybe that "sensitivity" is the reason I so often rate items GC which actually wouldn't "justify" it

... don't wanna step on your (Americans') toes.

Funny how you actually wrote about a completely other song than the one provided

(My German teacher called that missing the point (with which she always started her commentary under my "A"s.

)

The whole "lecture" around the song was a bit TMI for me

, BUT made me curious enough to look up the song as I like at least OneRepublic & Imagine Dragons of the mentioned musicians.

Hope I didn't step on your toes too much.

Ye know it's not directed against you but just me being honest.

If I trampled on toes, then SORRY.

Have a great day.

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tracker

Aug 8, 2024 at 6:11am
In response to "August Media Prompt Challenge"

added lyrics to my Words, Wonderful Words forum. There are some quoted there you may be familiar with. Here is link

FORUM

Words, Wonderful Words

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An activity forum for sharing quotes, phrases, lyrics, and lines of poetry.
#2317373 by tracker

Enjoy!

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tracker

Aug 8, 2024 at 6:07am
In response to "August Media Prompt Challenge"

I admire people like you who can analyze music. I will search the cloud for it. How do you find the time for everything you do?

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Jul 25, 2024 at 9:17pm
In response to "Fortnight"

I immediately thought how difficult it is to google a simple word like "fortnight". The responses are usually ads and companies and websites... anything that makes money... top of the list.

And yes, I don't know what I don't know.

But I know that I like how this flows.

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Joto-Kai

Jul 16, 2024 at 10:30pm
In response to "Music and Writing"

Imagine dragons is palpable, if only for the fact that "Everybody wants to be my enemy" is so deeply connected to a particular time in my health journey. As much as I wanted to refresh my knowledge of Arcane for the next season, I don't know that I can...

though that might just be a bit of flightiness.

Very interesting thoughts about music. And I loved your tappity gif on the newsfeed.

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~SilverMoon~

May 3, 2024 at 2:15pm
In response to "Renewal"

Hello Amethyst,

I read your poem and am going to review it, but since it's an entry I can only comment.

* I like the imagery you use in this. It helps me imagine looking through that window seeing all the sounds, sights, and other senses.

* Plus the colored text matches the theme.

This is about as close to poetic form I can manage:
It's refreshing, like a glass of sweet iced tea on a warm Spring day. My ears, nose, eyes soak in its splendour.

You did a good job at the goal and requirements needed.

Well done.

The details in this make it vivid.
*

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February 14, 2024 at 9:02am

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What Are We Waiting For?

Christian contemporary music and I have a long and conflicted history. I've spent years trying to analyze what it is about CCM that appeals to me, or not. To make a long and boring story short, I'll say at this point I approach modern Christian music with the same standards that I use for secular music: lyrics, melody, and artist identity.

To me, CCM is generally a vast ocean of bland, boring, repetitive and corny songs, with little to offer from an artistic standpoint. It makes good background music because the decency of it sets the mind at ease, but it mostly all sounds the same and says the same two or three basic things over and over (which, honestly, most secular pop music is guilty of as well.)

The Christian songs that stand out to me are the ones that rise above the rest, with distinctive voices, powerful production, and lyrics that display some kind of songwriting talent beyond the usual soothing, meditative mush. (There are also those Christian songs that "try too hard" to be poppy and modern and appealing, instead coming across as downright trappy, overdone, and cheap.) I can name a handful of artists who consistently develop their identities in a way that catches my fancy: TobyMac, Lauren Daigle, Jeremy Camp, Sanctus Real, Jordan Feliz, and perhaps most importantly For King and Country, who I am featuring today.

4K+C are a pair of brothers, born in Australia, who emigrated with their parents and siblings to Nashville Tennessee. Their musical career is long and illustrious, and I have even captured some of their songs "crossing over" into mainstream secular public playlists. They'll be releasing a biopic this summer.

I enjoy 4K+C for many reasons: their voices are remarkably calm and steady, their songs are well-structured and memorable, and they have strong family values. It's also amazing that two brothers share the vocals so harmoniously; I have yet to tell which guy is which, but it's always nice to hear them.

I chose to feature What Are We Waiting For because it came out in the summer of 2023, so it qualifies for the prompt of "music that shaped your past year" if we're paying any attention to that, and also because it bears a surprising resemblance, in theme and even in faint stylized echoes, to the 2023 OneRepublic song I featured yesterday, RUNAWAY.

I don't have the opportunity to really "get into" 4K+C; despite my admiration for their talent, I really only know a handful of their songs across the years. I found out about What Are We Waiting For via Twitter, when they announced the release of the music video for it. I happened to have some time on my hands, and when I saw the brothers describe the music video as being "a mashup of Dune and Mad Max," I had to watch it, partly because I consider Mad Max to be a prime example of what not to watch, in my naivete

This is a good song that reminds me to focus on my goals and get something accomplished. It has almost become a subconscious theme song these past months as I've become more deeply embedded in the WdC community. In fact, the day I discovered it was the day I posted and submitted a story to Gaby's Ladies Night Out contest.

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