Nothing Was The Same

Drakes new album, Nothing Was The Same, is a result of him wearing his heart on his sleeve. This makes his album different, its not all about money and women, its about love and compassion, things everyone can relate to. "Nothing Was the Same is essentially an album of bedroom confessionals with a million dollar budget." This album is different from his others and also from a lot of other rappers. No, Drake didn't sell crack on the streets but he struggled to get where he is today and you can see it in his albums. 'The streets come up again on “Wu-Tang Forever,” where amidst some of Drake’s most poised rhyming to date, he confesses, “I find peace knowing that it’s harder in the streets, I know. Luckily I didn’t have to grow there, I would only go there ‘cause there’s niggas that I know there.”' Kitching, author of the review, says.



Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/26/drake-wrestles-his-insecurities-on-new-album-nothing-was-the-same/

REVOLT

Revolt was created by Sean "Diddy" Combs, he first came up with the idea about 7 years ago. It will be a station on NBCUniversal. The station is for the artist by the artist. There will be music oriented, have interviews and live shows. Revolt will also be producing films, one being Lawless. Some celebs have been supporting Combs by helping spread the word via Instagram, one of the being Machine Gun Kelly.

Emotional Music

Today in class we chatted about music showing emotion or giving off some type of emotion. I don't think music can truly give off emotion because it is not a living thing buuuuuuuuut music can definitely make people feel a certain type of emotion. Can you just see it little music notes cry during a sad piece, a quarter note crying and here comes mr. whole note with a tissue. Sorry I pictured that and couldn't help but share.  Back to what I was saying, I think how music can make people feel a certain way is what makes music so great. There is music out there that can make people cry, and don't say you never cried at a song. I mean come on everyone has done that before right!? Maybe it is just me. There is also music that makes people smile and happy and makes people feel great all over. All I really want to say is that music doesn't express emotion but makes the listener express an emotion. Oh how lovely music is. Here is a lovely song that I think can make people feel a certain emotion, and no worries it is not sad, or at least I don't think so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPmRCD_3v8. Enjoy.

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My project and bird song, did I produce music?

As I'm doing my midterm essays I was looking into what gracyk thought about bird song and how he thought it was musical but how he didn't think that meant it was music at all. As I was pondering this I thought back to how my john cage inspired piece sounded a lot like bird song and thought that maybe my piece too might of only of been musical and not music. Surely my piece was intended for aesthetic enjoyment and not to attract a mate but surely the lack of rhythm and musical experience must have some affect on what people think of my work. Gracyk states that for something to be art it must reflect culture, natural outpourings of unchecked emotion are not art lol. So I wanted to see what everyone else thought about this. Below I'm going to include a link to some bird songs and I want to know if you find them to be musical or if they're able to be considered music.

actual birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEkeLmy14PA

Music on your Brain

CNN recently published an article talking about what kind of effects music has on the human brain. One question was, does music help your health? Dr. Levitin and his colleagues conducted many research projects and found that listening to music after surgery help patients with their anxiety better than some patients who were just on anti-anxiety medication. Dr. Levitin found that music releases immunoglobin A, an antibody linked to immunity. There is much more information in the article but I thought this was the coolest. Below is a link to the article to read more about their findings!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/health/brain-music-research/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/health/brain-music-research/index.html  

The 20/20 Experience Pt. 2

As some of you may know, Justin Timberlake has released his new album, The 20/20 Experience Pt. 2. This album and it's "sister" album both share sexual music and love songs. The part 1 album is said to have neo-Sinatra affectations  while part 2 is more dirty. Both albums flirt with sexy and sexual lines that Timberlake is famous for.

John Cage Quote

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
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I think this quote is saying that if you don't like something you should give it another try. You may find something in it that you like, by doing this you become more open minded to things you may not of been before.