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They Just Keep Growing And Growing (Tick Songs W/O)Oct 28 '05 Write an essay on this topic.
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Music presents me with life and constructs so many emotions that sometimes they merge into an incomplete, unstable feeling which strengthens from a feeble emblem of personality to an instantaneous symbol of poeticism which is always there to examine. Songs, unlike ticks, restore life and blood into me instead of taking it out but you understand the concept. So why does a song have a tendency to be so catchy/annoying/relatable that it grows on you? The genre that interests me is rap, which can be either a dense, improvised crevice or a lyrical journey, which is why there are so many stereotypes lying in many people’s minds about it. But there are things that stay between everything else, not so much as a guilty pleasure as a song that grows on you and surprises you by filing itself into the categorized section of your mind which is mentally labeled as songs you like, and remember the swinging melody that gave birth to it. There are songs you instantly love and then once you play it too much it gets old (Jay-Z ”Song Cry”) and there are many other categories you could fit music in, but there are many songs that have grown on me and fit itself into my head. The seven-song (sorry about the laziness) at the bottom isn’t in any order. 7. Sunshine - Mos Def: Well, since New Danger will be my next review, I won’t say much about it. There’s a piano, a cheery yet desolate sample that disintegrates throughout the chorus, and links to the defiantly enriching voice of Mos’ speaking in his usual tone, ready to school the world. Considering the album was drenched with a lot of his rock, the lyricism seemed to make the album more realistic in the standards of rap and less captioned by guitarists and loud vocals. The fence of soul that Kanye builds with the strongest materials glistens here, and even though as soon as I heard a sample from iTunes, I liked it, but everything has room to grow, whether it’s by itself or on you. Honestly, I haven’t heard much of Mos and I’ve overlooked Black And Both Sides and his collaborations with Kweli for a good amount of time, but maybe I’ll search through the stores and get ‘em. 6. Cold Outside - Ludacris: The amusement that Mr. Luda has restored to rap builds up hip-hop in many measures of ways, but are there times where he can’t lose the clown mask and realize that there’s more than that? Sure, “Hip Hop Quotables” is sixty-four bars of random whilin’ and wordplay that can certainly make you grin, but “Cold Outside” is different. The wind blows and the windows creak, and his flow skids across the track’s pessimistic pianos and the drums that cackle, throughout Luda’s skilled supply of rhymes that talks about the danger of what’s in the neighborhoods in where he grew up. ”It ain’t no one to trust but me…” is spoken in a less natural, electronically dimmed voice for the message to be heeded moreso than if it was in his exasperatedly sarcastic flow that normally delves into the track. Even though the chorus is a bit long, the song will grow on you if you let it. 5. Getting Married - Nas: Deflecting piano marks the track, filled with a little too much personal information that fits throughout it. While Nas and Kelis are happily married nowadays, before that happened it explains the nervousness and the emotions that go through a man’s mind before the two words to decide your future are said. The keys rustle through it, a piece to be contemplated by your mentally aware mind, and even though I get sick of hearing it if I listen to it or have it stuck in my head a lot (I almost always have a song stuck in my head)…but it’s marvelously realistic for someone to talk about their insecurities of the marriage to the woman they love, especially in hip-hop. Sincerity is precious… 4. Just Another Day - John Cena & Trademarc: The insistent swishes of keyboarding next to the two men rapping through their life’s constant precipitation of disappointing accomplishments and adventures make this enough for a few listens, even if I made it seem a little too complicated. Now, really, why is the song good? It doesn’t try any harder than it needs to complete what it has. It’s got some nice quotes (including the ‘beef/sleep’ one that was my short bio for two weeks) and it’s got sincerity and valuable emotion that persists throughout the song while each emcee trades verses. ”I got some plans to do sh*t that ain’t never been done” is pretty much every hungry emcee’s goal, and I think Cena is stretching toward that achievement. 3. Real People - Common: Now, besides the arguably racist beginning line of the third verse (which regards interracial dating) I love this song. It did take some time to love it, but the symphonic trumpets with Com’s sympathetic lyricism with people as it’s simple subject just is too warming to let go of. Be is (so far) the only album I gave five stars this year, and Common Sense is worthy of it, undertaking the planet on his shoulders and removing silly objects that enforce the drastic nature of rap such as the throne, just simply making music that he wanted to do and that he feels is right. Now, I’m still a little disappointing in him for his beliefs on people dating from different races, but I do my best to ignore the remark in the song and zoom in on the visionary that exists in the rest of the song. 2. Mind Control - Canibus: Is it more shattering lyricism that’ll drench the dunces who don’t believe in ‘Bis? Nope. It’s a track that chimes in through more lackluster lyrics, but is still pretty much heat. In fact, Mind Control, while not sterling or any sort of synonym or resembling word, had some classic Canibus cuts (or the CCC’s.) This wasn’t one, but it was a nice job at something to slowly bounce to. ‘Bis was never a groovy meister of rap and I don’t think we’re going to be seeing more of these, but his message and the concept of just lving it out and trying to reach your destination is interesting for him, even if the chorus turns out completely different from the subject matter. 1. Church For Thugs - Game: Now if you could tell me how the title tells me what the songs is about, please do. The horns stomp all over the track with a customary silencing of critics while Game….brags and bounces through it, repping Compton for the 43rd time in his short career. Anyone think that’s what’s going to kill his chances in the end? But if you’re persistent with the track and give it more chances before you turn off your CD player, you’ll be bobbing your head and wishing you could be that confrontational while rapping over a conspiring beat with the jumping trumpets that appear here. Thanks to Mike for starting up this write-off and giving me a chance to put a write-off entry in, which I have been waiting to do for months. Enter it if you understand how songs can build off of what you think of them when you hear them at first, and have things to share about the matter. snik1  |
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