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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

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SAD Holiday Potato

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

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Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

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tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

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September 25, 2024 at 5:26am

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Connection

My fifth choice is the 2018 OneRepublic song Connection, released ostensibly as a lead-up to an album cycle but ultimately never making the cut due to Covid. Crafted in a funky, hyper-modern style, with synthesizers and trappy beats, this song is cram-packed with rapid-fire words, though it only lasts two and a half minutes.

When Connection came out, the lyrics immediately clicked for me; I knew exactly what Ryan Tedder was trying to get across, in large part because I had recently read an interview

of his where he explained his desire to write more socially aware songs.

I sat down that same evening and wrote up what we call on Genius a "song bio," basically an article giving meaning and background and citing primary sources, which is then posted to the song's page. It was one of my longest annotations, and I was proud enough of it to pin it on top of my profile, where it sits to this day. Rather than copy pasting, I'll link to it here.

The music video for Connection shows Ryan exploring a vast shopping mall, where crowds of grayscale people run around, mindlessly staring at their empty hands as though they're holding phones. A dancer stands in their midst, performing an intricate choreography, yet no one stops to bat an eyelash. This suits the song's theme perfectly.

The funny thing about the music video is, I assumed the idea of portraying people fixated on their phone-less hands was original to OneRepublic. It was only a couple years later I learned about Eric Pickersgill

and his photography series Removed, which features the exact same concept. Released and much discussed in the media in 2015, it became the obvious inspiration for OneRepublic's music video theme.

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