Category: music
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“Foggy Dew” by The Chieftains and Easter Rising of 1916
It has been a little while, but now I’m back with some cool information about a historical event I randomly decided to do research on because of my intrigue in a particular song. As usual, I have stumbled on some information I found interesting enough to write about and share on my blog. I didn’t […]
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Top 10 Relaxing Soundtracks
We’re all familiar with soundtracks, whether for films, TV series, or video games. There are classics, such as John Williams’s Star Wars theme, Hans Zimmer’s Pirates of the Caribbean score, and Jeremy Soule’s Dragonborn from Skyrim: Elder Scrolls. These are all epic and upbeat and perfect for getting things done to and just listening to […]
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“Jumpsuit” by Twenty Øne Piløts: Music Video Analysis Part 2
Today, I’m picking up where I left off in last week’s post, Part 1 of my music video analysis of Twenty Øne Piløts’s song “Jumpsuit.” Which would be about at 2:15 in the music video itself: Their new song “Levitate” was just recently released, and as far as we know, it is the third and last video […]
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“Jumpsuit” by Twenty Øne Piløts: Music Video Analysis Part 1
Twenty Øne Piløts recently released two songs for their new album “Trench”: “Jumpsuit” and “Nico and the Niners.” If you haven’t yet heard this news, you were asleep. Time to wake up. First off, the people I know who are TØP fans either really like or dislike their new songs. I think this is either […]
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My Top 5 Favorite Musicals
Storytelling in music is one of my favorite things, from lyrics to genres, from film scores to musicals. And we’ll stop at musicals, because that is the topic of this post. What’s so unique about musicals is that they are purely theatrical—meaning that they are purposely unrealistic (which is the main reason why many people […]
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3 Writing Exercises with Music
Sometimes you need to take a break from your main writing project. Spending all your writing time on just one project can get overwhelming and you might notice that your coffee fuel starts draining faster the longer and more often you spend working on one particular story. When it comes to my writing for Fiction’s […]
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Why I Made a Twenty Øne Piløts Music Video (+ the Actual Video)
For years I’ve wanted to make a film. For years I had a boundless number of ideas flooding my brain of images and specific visuals that I wished I could somehow produce for the screen for us to see. And it was terribly frustrating because I could never take the ideas out of my head […]
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