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Hall of Fame by The Script with will.i.am - my new favorite song, and strangely enough, a music vid not by fandom that brings something to the table in interpretation and meaning all on it's own. I expected something a lot more GLAMOUR SUPERSTAR whatever; I got something far, far better.

Special note: I dare you not to get tears in your eyes when she stops, closes her eyes, and touches the speaker so she can feel the rhythm with her body. Just. Awesome.

Its' also, in itself, a fantastic song, in the family of You Gotta Be by Des'ree where they just make you feel like you could save the world before breakfast. I am actually making a playlist for this; sometimes, you just need to hear a lot of songs about how you are awesome.

IF ANYONE VIDS THIS SONG, IN ANY FANDOM, EMAIL ME. I would love to see this one go into common use. Well, and some Des'ree wouldn't hurt either.

I am exhausted from life, hence music to sooth the savage beast. So listening to now.

Let Her Go by passEnger - this didn't work for me until third listen when I got hard hooked by the lyrics. Give it three listens and if you aren't singing along the refrain, I will be very surprised.

Will Someday Change by Our Lady Peace - this is a drink alone in the dark in the rain after your dog got run over kind of song. No, really. I love it, but keep in mind I have a playlist called "cut your wrists". I collect songs like this. Very low key, very gorgeous, and very melancholy.

Be Somebody by Thousand Foot Krutch - I'd almost set this in bookends to Hall of Fame; different genre, different style, relationship-oriented rather than life-oriented, but despite the feel of it at the beginning, this is actually pretty positive. Definitely writing music.

Give Your Heart a Break by Demi Lovato - if the radio hasn't brainwashed you yet, I'd love to know how you escaped. It's freakishly bouncy and lyric automemorization means some people may be singing along in their office or bouncing down along the cubicle to the beat. Not that I know anything about that.

Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three - I originally listened to this and would have sworn it was Collective Soul. It's not, but if you like them, this will really, really work for you.

Hard to Love by Lee Brice - to round this out, country genre, and so freaking addictive I was muttering the chorus in one listen. It's just like that.

Breathe by Angel and Airways - also responsible for the song for the HP Neville video of awesome. Honestly, first listen it was okay but nothing to write home about; second, it worked much better.

Comments

[everbright]

YES PLEASE, I would be interested in that "Conquer the world before Breakfast" playlist. I can't really recommend a song to fit in the theme of striving and doing your best, but Imagine Dragons' On Top of the World is about success *after* striving if you need a cheer-up. Though, they've been so popular, I'm sure you're heard of them before.

Let Her Go is kind of a sneaky break-up song. It's not angry or mopey or heading toward self-harm, but about missing something you didn't expect to miss. That's pretty applicable to almost any kind of loss, not just relationships.

Will Someday Change Man, cheer up emo kid. If everything such utter shit right now, isn't the inevitability of change a good thing? Ugh, this is definitely a song for 6th grade and depth-less despair.

Cumbersome CRY MOAR looser. The sound is nostalgically 90's though.

[seperis]

cheer up emo kid.

IT IS TOTALLY THAT RIGHT THERE.

If everything such utter shit right now, isn't the inevitability of change a good thing? Ugh, this is definitely a song for 6th grade and depth-less despair.

It totally is. Made for myspace poetry.

Cumbersome CRY MOAR looser. The sound is nostalgically 90's though.

The aesthetic is really nineties Collective Soul-esque, almost counter-grunge. I hated most grunge--except the jeans and flannel overshirts, God I miss that--and jumped from eighties pop right into Anything Not Grunge including questionable indy and British poprock. IT's only in retrospect you can see my musical choices literally circling around the grunge-ska movements.

[out_there]

The only one of thsoe I know is Hard to Love, and that's because my car is set to Hot Country (98% music, rather than 70% talking as most morning radio, and most songs are musically easy enough to sing along to once you've heard the chorus twice).

It's a very cool song.

[vickita]

' Bout a million years ago, I was at the Scottish Festival down in Arlington, TX. Jiggernaut was playing on the main stage, and there was this wee little lassie up there, walking around, watching the crowd with great intensity. She was standing RIGHT NEXT to the big speakers -- hello, amplified bagpipes -- and I was concerned for her hearing. I mean, I was wearing *my* earplugs to be able to stand there and take pictures, you know? So I wandered over to ask her grandmother, who was nearby, if maybe we might not should scootch her away from the speakers a bit, and the grandmother told me that the little girl was deaf from birth -- the loud noise wasn't bothering her, but she could feel the vibrations from the sound through her bare feet. This is she, watching the dancing, clapping crowd. It may not show in this photo, but she was having a really good time up there. What a doll.

[bluemeridian]

I was so focused on the story that it didn't even occur to me until she did touch the speaker that she was dancing to music she couldn't hear. Feel, at least, but ballet is kind of about reducing ground contact, so I would think that would complicate it. That is a really awesome video. ♥