Monday, May 20, 2013

New Politics - Harlem

I spend my money on the regular miracles, just like you, like me, like everybody else.

Hello there.

I don't have much to say except for that I'm going to Michigan for a week, and that this song is catchy, upbeat and happy. :D


Have a good week.

Tennie.
Light it up yeah, smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Friday, May 10, 2013

alt-J - Tessellate

My heart still thumps as I bleed.

Hello there. :3

This song is just something I find very hard to interpret without making no sense at all. Thus, I will find many interpretations over the great internet and post them here for you with comments of my own.
I had an epiphany. A woman wants to get back at her husband, so she cheats with some guy (forming the triangle). She bites chunks out of this guy (uses him to get her husband jealous). The poor guy is in love with her but she still loves her husband and has no plans on leaving her husband for this poor guy. Why would she? Her husband is wealthy and her home is lavish. What can this poor guy offer her...nothing. He's handsome and intelligent but doesn't have the money to keep up with this woman's wants and needs. She chews him up and spits him out. 
She is reveling in the love triangle; it's her saying, "triangles are my favorite shape..." She loves the game. She gets back at her husband, while she enjoys the sexual fling with this poor guy. 
But her plan doesn't quite turn in her favor. While she enjoys the game, her husband doesn't. He is uncontrollable jealous when he finds out. What does he do? He kills her and throws in an ocean. She becomes seafood. 
Well the poor guy who really loved her, despite her using him in her game, is haunted by her disappearance. He thinks of her and still desires her, even though he wasn't anything special to him and still had her allegiance to her husband. 
So in the end the one burns (the poor guy), one red (the cunning and beautiful woman), one grins (the husband who shoots his wife to avenge her infidelity.)
The poor guy goes back to his hum drum life, the husband probably goes to jail, and the wife is devoured by seals. 
I wonder if triangles are still her favorite shape?
 -kkw, songmeanings.net
That is one of the most... cynic but interesting comments I have ever read in my life.


The lines about triangles got me for so long. I was like, wait, that does not a triangle make! Then I realized that my perspective was off. It doesn't say that there are two lines in a triangle. It is referencing the individual points, in a triangle there are 3 points, each one where two lines meet. Quite a deep way to express a love triangle.
-dejus, songmeanings.net
Love triangles.
It has to be about a love triangle... Thinking about it know they're actually pretty brilliant lyrics. 
Triangles are my favorite shapeThree points, where two lines meet - A love triangle has 3 relations-ships, all between two people within the group. 
The rest is self explanatory, let the poetry put it together for you :) Awesome lyrics and song! pretty blue actually... 
-delicreep4, songmeanings.net
There are so many more interesting comments and interpretations. :D
What's yours?

-Tennie.


Search the graves while the camera spins.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Gavin DeGraw - Chariot

Your favorite fruit is chocolate covered cherries and watermelon, ohh.

Hey there. Happy month of May! Time for the allergies and flowers to spring up, for good or bad. ;)

This song is a very metaphorical song, so if you don't understand it, that's fine with me. I don't quite grasp the meaning of it either, but that's okay. The song itself is still great.

This is a quote for the all-wonderful Gavin DeGraw about this song -
Chariot is a metaphorical vehicle for getting to a place in your mind that is a more broken down and laid back. It's somewhere to be just for a moment--instead of being wrapped up and living wherever you're living and consumed with what you're doing. It's a place to release and chill out.
In the music video, there is a girl who meets Gavin in his simple life and brings him to parties and shows him things that aren't his style. In the end, it's all a green screen, showing that it's just a visual seance.

To me, this song is about simplicity. Like in the first few lines of the song, it talks about favorite fruit. In day to day life, favorite fruit doesn't really matter as much as work or school or other priorities people have placed at a higher need.
Keep those things in mind.

Have a great day.
Until next time,

-Tennie.
Rains made mirrors of the earth.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Miranda Lambert) - Same Love

And I can't change, even if I tried; even if I wanted to.

Hello. :D

This song is probably one of the most inspiring songs for gay rights that I've ever heard.

If anything about gays, lesbians, or bisexual people offends, insults, hurts, or harasses you in any way, please feel free to skip over this post and read the previous ones. Please and thank you.

The song isn't very heavy with bass beats, but a simple background beat with Miranda Lambert's elegant vocals and the infamous duo, Ryan Lewis and Macklemore.
To me, this song reminds me to not throw words around, because they might hurt more than they seem.
If you call someone a 'faggot' or 'nigger' for fun, they might not take it that way. Perhaps this sounds very elementary, but often times this little detail in life is overlooked, and more people are hurt everyday.

This song really shines a light on how discriminated gays and lesbians are.
I'm not gay or lesbian, but I do think I understand how it's hard to 'come out of the closet' due to how society treats those people.
Have you read the YouTube comments lately? "Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily.
That is true.
And I can't change, even if I tried; even if I wanted to.
Why should they change? They already found it challenging enough to admit their sexuality, knowing the judgment and social acts they would have to go through.
A world so hateful, some would rather die than be who they are.
Many people judge someone the moment they see them. I do that a lot. I'll look at a person on the street who is begging for money, and I subconsciously move a little farther away from them when I'm walking past them.
The suicide rates have gone up recently. People throw themselves off buildings due to the economy, sadness of loss of a family member, or something that has shaken them so badly, it's out of the range of anything they've ever experienced.

I feel I've written quite a lot.
So, I will leave you with this thought.

What you actually say can cause more damage than what you think you've said.
That might not make so much sense, but think of it this way - how you say it and how you've perceived it can be two completely different things.

Have a good day or night, wherever you are. I'm heading to sleep.

-Tennie.
If I was gay, I'd think hip-hop hates me. Have you seen the YouTube comments lately?

Friday, April 26, 2013

Ronald Jenkees - Throwing Fire


Yep, it's a song without lyrics. Otherwise, you would have read some of the lyrics I really liked. :D
But it doesn't matter that this song doesn't have lyrics! It's awesome, upbeat, and pure amazing.

Ronald Jenkees is a talented musician who plays by ear. He played in high school marching band, where he tried reading sheet music but went back to mainly playing by ear.

He currently has three CDs out as of 2012 - Ronald Jenkees (2007), Disorganized Fun (2009), and Days Away (2012).

This piece, Throwing Fire, is from the CD Disorganized Fun.



Although this video is quite old (2008), it's still catchy and definitely epic.
I play the keyboard too, but to me, those who play by ear are more talented than those who read sheet music, like me. I can play by ear, but by default, I'd rather play from sheet music. Sadly. :<

I listen to this track when I play MapleStory, hehe. <3

Enjoy. Have a great day!

-Tennie.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.

Hey there, guys. ^.^

AREN'T YOU GLAD AHRI-CHAN'S BACK?! YOU SHOULD BE! SHE HAS BETTER MUSIC THAN I DO! WOOP WOOP!


Anyways... Hehe.


This song is a song about loss. It's not an upbeat, peppy song. It's a moderately slow, sad song with piano in it. (I had to mention that, because I play piano, haha.)

I can't outright state WHAT this song means, because it's only my opinion. You have your own opinions, and you have your own interpretations of this song.

But this song involves hospital death. If you don't like hospital death, then you might just want to quickly skim over the lyrics and see if you want to listen to this song. If you don't, it's fine with me.

Death Cab For Cutie is a pretty cool band; they're my favorite at the moment. :D

Enjoy the song!

-Tennie.
So who's gonna watch you die?