Re: What are you listening to?
So here is a song that I've done a near complete 180 on:
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Let me start with the "my fault" portion. I've owned this album for years, but somehow always shuffled past this song and never really heard it for myself in full. Then one day my friend says this is her favorite A7X song, so I give it a go. Now, from the title, the only thing in my head is Theory of a Deadman's Heaven with their chorus starting "There's a little piece of heaven..." and it's a ballad. After hearing some A7X songs that can get in the ballad format (such as Dear God) I guess my mind was going there first. To get this Halloween/circus horn sounding music in this song was the last thing I expected, plus the diversified parts in it. I guess this is why I don't like going into songs with an expectation.
Anyway, I always liked some parts in this song regardless, which were basically the pre-chorus and chorus. The rest was kind of weird though, and I didn't get it. But I finally got the turnaround. After watching some people's reactions I realized there was a music video, then I checked that out, read the lyrics with it, and watched some behind-the-scenes on the creation of the song. Suddenly things are making sense, including an aspect where "some of it really isn't supposed to make sense." But I'm finally connecting the pieces and realizing the greatness that this song does offer.
I still don't like the horns though, and the time signature of the intro/verses isn't my favorite. But wow, to go from: "I can't believe she likes this song, much less it being her favorite A7X song" to "Having this song really makes the album in a way, and is a showing of A7X being able to go out there and be wildly, successfully inventive" is always something I look forward to letting happen to me in music. It's also stuck in my head now, too.
So here is a song that I've done a near complete 180 on:
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Let me start with the "my fault" portion. I've owned this album for years, but somehow always shuffled past this song and never really heard it for myself in full. Then one day my friend says this is her favorite A7X song, so I give it a go. Now, from the title, the only thing in my head is Theory of a Deadman's Heaven with their chorus starting "There's a little piece of heaven..." and it's a ballad. After hearing some A7X songs that can get in the ballad format (such as Dear God) I guess my mind was going there first. To get this Halloween/circus horn sounding music in this song was the last thing I expected, plus the diversified parts in it. I guess this is why I don't like going into songs with an expectation.
Anyway, I always liked some parts in this song regardless, which were basically the pre-chorus and chorus. The rest was kind of weird though, and I didn't get it. But I finally got the turnaround. After watching some people's reactions I realized there was a music video, then I checked that out, read the lyrics with it, and watched some behind-the-scenes on the creation of the song. Suddenly things are making sense, including an aspect where "some of it really isn't supposed to make sense." But I'm finally connecting the pieces and realizing the greatness that this song does offer.
I still don't like the horns though, and the time signature of the intro/verses isn't my favorite. But wow, to go from: "I can't believe she likes this song, much less it being her favorite A7X song" to "Having this song really makes the album in a way, and is a showing of A7X being able to go out there and be wildly, successfully inventive" is always something I look forward to letting happen to me in music. It's also stuck in my head now, too.
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