life of bean

  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise  The   R oof     In this podcast they  enter  guests Robert Plant mostly known  as the lead singer of globally known band Led Zepplin  and  his  partner in the album Raise the Roof, Alison   Krauss . The album that both music artists have made is  called Raise the Roof, fourteen years after their album Raising Sand came out as well.    Their first hit called Quatro was a s Robert Plant described it as  “ a   very challenging piece .” Krauss said that this song was one of those moments where you knew where you were at the  time,   what you were wearing and what you were doing,  a  time you would never forget.  It was the beginning  of the record but also the impetus of the record . They explain how they noticed that the album starts off li ke running and that things  are   in  action.    I like how th...

  The first podcast I chose to listen to was published on November 23rd of this year and  it's  called “Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club”. In this podcast they talk about  songs  about heartbreak and being sad about love.  the history of the hit songs by Taylor Swift and Adele and their heartbreaking history with past relationships that have turned into their hit songs.    First, they talk about Taylor and her new hit song “All Too Well” and her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. At this time when the song was taking place, she was younger and the relationship she had with Jake Gyllenhaal was viewed differently than how she views it now and that is what the song is about. It is how she perceives it now that she looks back on it and  it is  interesting how her  perspective  changes.    The next song they talk about is Bruno Mars ,  Anderson  .Paak  & Silk Sonic.  With this son...

For this week, I chose to do my music blog on the song, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" by James Brown. The main thing that drew me to do my blog on this song is the overall beat and energy of the song. This song, I imagine would be the talk of the town. It makes me want to dance, its got that type of energy and level of energy. I have been to a couple parties where they start playing this song, and the energy in the room would just get so built up and we would all start dancing and having so much fun. I like how the lyrics are entertaining to listen to, and they are really innocent. It is about how "he's got a brand new bag" and how he is having the time of his life. I really enjoyed listening to this song. I had already heart it a lot before, but it was fun to listen to it multiple times and listen even closer to the lyrics. It makes the song so much more fun when you understand the lyrics and are familiar with the notes. I love this song...

This week for my listening blog I chose to do the most familiar song to me and that is "My Girl" by the Temptations. This is one of those classic feel good songs that everyone knows and it makes everyone just so happy and bubbly inside. Something that I've always loved about this song is the beginning. This song has such a unique beginning that gives a great hook. I think at this time the instruments that most artists were using and the rhythms and this is a great example of that. I also noticed that this song contains a kind of crooning with the singers and it makes people feel happy 

This week for my blog post I chose to do the song that we listened to in class today that caught my attention, and that song is Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page. For some reason when this song played in class it automatically caught my attention. I think Patti Page had such a unique tone to her voice that drew in a lot of people and that's why this song made it to the #1. I think she has such a unique way of crooning while singing that was addictive to a lot of people.  I love the fact that she introduced the idea of this new technology that would allow artists to duet themselves. The beginning of the song reminds me of one of the old school songs that were played in the background of captain America-a song that just makes everyone immediately happy. In short, this song just sounds like a good memory. 

 This week I chose to do my listening blog on Duke Ellington's song, Caravan. I like the general feel that this song gives you in the beginning. It feels and sounds very exotic and sophisticated. It definitely sounds like a song you would play in a spy movie. It expresses some mystery and excitement throughout the whole piece.  Something that I noticed about this piece in particular that I really enjoyed was the gradual addition of instruments and beats. Duke Ellington keeps this up for the whole piece, there's constantly different beats, rhythms, and new instruments adding constantly to give the song a lot of depth.