Lyrical Livelihood

Music runs my life. As an aspiring music artist, with a variety of taste in music, its impossible for me to pick just one "favorite song." There are various songs and various reasons I would choose them as my favorite. Instrumental skill, vocal skill, lyrics, and over all production of the song put together are all factors you should put into while judging a song. Its the same thing with bands. There are certain bands I love purely for their music and whom I barely know anything about the actual band members (like Arctic Monkeys and Bastille for me), then there are others whom I love the people in the band so deeply I don't even know if I like their music anymore (One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer). I cant really pick a single song (or band), thats my favorite, but all music does one thing to me: it makes me feel alive. Some people talk about how certain people are the only constant in their lives, music is the only constant in mine. Music makes me feels emotions. Sadness, anger, happiness, regret, love, hate, compassion. Music is my way of escaping reality and entering a universe filled with emotion.

For our new assignment in GT, we are creating our very own music videos. The team Im on (Dylan, Loren, and I) chose to do the song Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance because it's a mixture of all our music tastes. Dylan loves classical music and piano which is in the intro of the song, and Loren and I love rock music and electric guitar and head banging, which is the second half of the song. Welcome to the Black Parade is one of my personal favorites (among the thousands of others favorites) and I'm super glad we came to a mutual agreement to do it.

The visual story that our music video will tell is that after Loren and I leave Dylan to build a better future for ourselves, Dylan is left to deal with the memory of us and the task of carrying our memories on. In the end, when the pain of us leaving Dylan is just so unbearable, we come back to help Dylan in his time of need. I'm super excited to see how our music video turns out !!