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Day 9 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life"  challenge.  Our next song up is... Better Off Alone (Instrumental Cover) by Alice DJ This song takes my love of hard electronic beats to the next level. I have the Shazam app on my phone and this song became an instant search for me upon hearing it. This is definitely a night club type of song as the trance type of arrangement make it very easy the rock out /dance to. I love how the music progresses. It starts with one short sharp note and gets progressively more and more complex like an insane game of "Simon". The variations throughout the song are epic and the highlight is an epic crescendo in the middle of the song. Yes... there are versions of this song with lyrics available but let's toss those aside in favor of the instrumental version so we can enjoy the techno melodic electronic sequences to their fullest effect. Ah glorious beat!! As far as I am concerned when it comes to this song the music is "Better off alone". -    |
| Day 8 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. Our next song up is... Attention by Charlie Puth This one feels a little bit lighter in tone than my previous two picks. It seems more upbeat and playful. There is a little bit of a playful flirtatious energy to it as the singer (Charlie Puth) laments not being able to get over his ex (who is playing games with him). When you watching the music video you can't blame him. You can feel the temptation and frustration throughout the song. Charlie has great vocal control able to shift to falsetto heights as he is singing. You can probably tell from earlier entries that I really love staccato like beats and this song has a great punchy rhythm to it that shifts into higher octaves. The melody and lyrics makes me feel like I am watching a tango when listening to it. It is fast and tense with a lot of sexual tension. It is very hot!! - |
Day 7 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge.  The next song up is... Collide by Howie Day I feel like I probably added this to my playlist around the same time as "Night Changes" (see previous entry "Soundtrack of Your Life Entry #6 Night Changes" ). This romantic ballad shares the same sweet tone. I first saw this song when I was watching the dancing competition show "So You Think You Can Dance". It was used as the background track for the following routinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzQkFNd35pg Just to provide a little bit of background, this was one of the best routines performed on the show. It was choreographed by the season 2 runner up Travis Wall and the two dancers performing it Lauren Froderman and Kent Boyd went win 1st and 2nd place respectively in their season. It was an incredibly beautiful routine where you can feel the chemistry between the two dancers. They were in complete sync with each other matching their partner's movements perfectly. Using "Collide" as the soundtrack was a great pick on Travis' part. The song highlighted everything the dancers brought out. It was fast, fluid, intense and sweet. I feel like music can often make or break a dance routine and this one elevated it to a sizzlingly hot level. Vice versa because I associate this spectacular dance routine with this song, I can't help smiling and feeling a sense of warmth and appreciation when the song is played. - |
| Day 6 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. Today's music recommendation is... Night Changes by One Direction I'm at the age where where I find myself resonating with songs that deal with growth and change. Night Changes is one of those songs that really captures those ideas. There is a little bit of a melancholy tone to it as it makes a listener realize that time can passes by really quickly. The dreams and hopes we set up in the past are gone before we know it. In the blink of an eye we find ourselves waking up one day discovering the window to accomplish ours goals has come and gone. If you are lucky you have accomplished the important ones but often there are goals unachieved that you've missed out on. In both cases, the listener is left reflecting on a past gone by. The song isn't completely sad though. (I wouldn't have liked it if it was.) Instead it provides some reassurance. There are some things that don't have to change due to time. We control the core of who we are and the relationships we forged with other people in the past remain with us. The song doesn't explicitly state it but there is the subtle idea listening to it that every night leads into a new dawn and with a new dawn comes new hopes and dreams to fulfill. It is a beautiful song... sweet, sad and comforting at the same time. - |
| Day 5 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. The next song up is Love You Like a Love Song by Selena Gomez This one is a little bit of a guilty pleasure. I know it is not very cool to like songs from Disney Pop Stars but my love of trance and heavy beats pulled this into my list. Actually I didn't even know that Selena Gomez was the singer for this until I wound up googling the lyrics for it to add it my list of tracks. I have to give her props...she has some great vocals. My exposure to this one definitely came out of hearing a segment of this song played in a commercial several times. I can't remember if it was a car or phone commercial but it after listening to the commercial using it a few times ... I wound up wanting to find it. The tune is very catchy and it is a great electronic mix. It is very easy to dance to as well.  On a sidenote... when I attempted to google the lyrics to find this song, it was apparent I didn't identify the lyrics correctly. Instead of the actual lyrics "I love you like a love song baby" I was googling "I love you like I love somebody". I wish I could say this was only time that occurred but misidentifying what the lyrics are happens way more often to me than I'd like to admit. Luckily Google identified what I was looking for and refrained from rolling its eyes at me in the process. - As a special bonus to go along with this post. I am adding in a trinket with another Selena Gomez song hidden inside that I created for another activity.   |
| Day 4 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. Today's song is... There's Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendes 4 entries into this challenge you probably can guess that I love songs that have a great beat. Shawn Mendes is a really good singer. This is another romantic piece and I'm a softie for sweet. The idea that someone can make you feel like you are able to take on the world without any limitations resonates with me a lot. The chorus for this song is wild...it is very fast paced with a lot of rapid lyrics providing an adrenaline rush when you are listening to it. It is the type of speed you would find in rap but this has the bonus of a melody accompanying it. The lyrics are also really good. They are reassuring expressing a feeling of being able to push forward though anything. As a listener I hear this song and have the same inspiration that "nothing would hold me back" as well. - |
| Day 3 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. Our featured song today is I'm Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphys I love this one!! This Celtic Rock style gives you the feel you are in an Irish pub when listening to it. It is loud, energetic and intense. It is really exciting to listen to. I think I heard this song originally in an episode of the Simpsons and I added it to my track list upon a relisten when I heard again during a boxing match. Everyone was cheering when it was playing and I knew it would go into my song list for sure. This is one of those songs I like to listen to often when I want to boost my energy. Hearing it playing in the background is guaranteed to spice up any activity you are doing!! - |
| Day 2 of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" challenge. Today's song is I Follow Rivers by Lykke Li It is very rare that I would add a song upon instant listen to this list. More often than not... I have heard the music for it playing somewhere in the past and get a reminded of it recently when it was either playing in the background of a store, commercial, television show or Youtube video which I have been watching. It usually leads me to google some of its lyrics upon my next visit to Youtube. Such is the case with "I follow rivers". I think I heard it in a commercial originally but I didn't add it until I heard it again recently this month. I think I was watching a Youtube video where it was playing in the background and thought it sounded really nice. This is another trance mix. It has a great staccato like beat. The song seems to fit with its title. I can picture a coursing river listening to it. It is a great juxtaposition of wild and controlled. I find myself thinking of white water rafting where it is chaotic but flows in one direction. It is like you are following a stream. There is also a little bit of romantic feel to this song too as the singer seems to be mentioning someone she cares about. For some reason I can't help thinking of another song "I will Follow you" when I am listening to this as well. I guess it makes sense. Though they sound completely different, they do share similar lyrics. - |
| I'm signed up to participate in a February blogging event called "The Soundtrack of Your Life" where the goal is to share different music videos throughout the month. There is a special merit badge awarded for those who manage to complete 29 entries this month. This activity actually plays right into my wheelhouse. I basically have a favorites Youtube music list that I have been slowly developing over the years which I am really happy to share. Anyway, lets start with one of the more recent ones added to my list: Astronaut in the Ocean by Masked Wolf I first heard this song watching an Instagram reel where a magician was revealing how different magic tricks were done. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwnYcv3rN9Z/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D It was a great soundtrack choice as it captured the feelings I had when watching each magic trick and seeing how it was performed; that sense of having your mind blown with the initial trick followed by realization when the slight of hand was shown again via "slow motion" replay. It really matched with the lyrics of the song perfectly. What wound up happening though was that the magician went through the tricks so quickly that I needed to rewatch the reel several times to see how each trick was done. One sidenote on the magician's video itself is that even knowing how each trick was performed I was still very impressed with the tricks themselves. They all required skill to pull off. In any case as you can imagine as a result of repeated rewatching, the chorus got this stuck in my head. I really like it. It has a fast beat and an energetic feel to it. The titular lyric also paint a great visual picture. I imagine Astronauts underwater with time slowing down. The song style is awesome as well giving a trance feel mixed in with a bit of rap. The electronic synthesizing gives it modern touch and it seems like it is a great song to play at a club. - |
| Done! Word Count: 1 The was written for: "February - SHORT MONTH, SHORT BLOGS - Blog Event" for "Invalid Item" This was written in response to the prompt - "Andre says he wants some really interesting blogs that are short. He has limited time this month to read especially since someone threw in an extra day this February for the Bar to be open. Question from you bloggers: What is meant by short? Answer from Andre (edited): Your blog entries need to be about something short or being short in number of words or written in a short amount of time or using shorthand or shortcut or any other way of using short (e.g. an arcostic poem)." |
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