Entry #2: Fresh Tunes

Concerts, Spotify, YouTube, and the radio are all different types of ways to listen to music nowadays. On this post, I want to explore some types of artists and genres and discover music I can share with all of you! 

One recent hit I looked at was Lil Nas X's "INDUSTRY BABY" featuring Jack Harlow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg-AwKRUFec). Only about a week ago a friend showed me this song and for a genre of music I don't regularly listen to, this definitely grabbed my attention.

The lyrics are about his recent explosion in success and references some of his past controversies like his "Satan Shoes". The instrumentals on this song are incredibly catchy to listen to and Jack Harlow's section in the music which leads right back into the chorus to the ending made for a memorable piece to replay in your head. Though most people have probably listened to this, I can't recommend enough that you check this out if you haven't!

Another song which took me by surprise was "The Writing on the Wall" by Iron Maiden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBnW7bZHEE). After five years since their last album The Book of Souls, they would release this song and eventually the new album Senjutsu following it. The song follows four masked riders on their way to defeat an adversary before the inevitable happens. At a slower tempo, along with the animated music video, this song tells this great tale with the use of it's lyrics setting up every scene. An example of this is every time the chorus sings, "Have you seen the writing on the wall?" and shortly after, "Can you see the riders on the storm?" this indicates that the riders are doing something pivotal and illustrates it well in the video. This song paired with the music video I can say is an amazing journey I'd love to have anyone experience at least once.

From a band I've heard of, but not listen to frequently is a new single called "Pantheum" by First Fragment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mU_qLoa3Ds). The more extreme genres of metal being my preference of music, this one immediately hooked me in with the explosive guitar solo at the start chromatically rising into winding bends and extremely fast runs. The high tempo keeps supplies a constant amount of energy as you listen to it and the instrument work of every single person in the band just makes it better. The lyrics (in French) depict a godless city with no laws. With that in mind, back to how the songs tempo is and how intense the musicians are. It clearly defines the chaos which is happening within this fictional city. I don't know many that like this particular genre of music, but I ask you to at least witness the skill of the band members and recognize the amount of work put into this impressive form of art. 

    

Entry #1: Blogs on the Internet

Blogs. A form of media more personally written and directed to certain people. To be honest, I haven't ready many blogs, but the time I've spent checking them out has been quite interesting to say the least.

With one of my primary hobbies being guitar, I immediately thought of finding a blog about it. The first website I found is https://www.guitarworld.com/blogs. What I noticed is that it is more of a collection of authors rather than a single poster and this is something that I really like about this blog site. With the larger amount of authors, this leads to a nice amount of variety in news/information to read about. As an example, they cover news about bands, new music, instruments, and gear. So if there isn't something I'm interested in, I'll surely be able to find something I do want to read.

Another blog in my search hits close to home! Run by a family of four, their site hosts over 1000 recipes categorized within labeled buttons on the site making it user-friendly for anyone browsing. In the "Beef" category they have the recipe for one of my favorite dishes, beef vegetable stir-fry (https://thewoksoflife.com/beef-vegetable-stir-fry/). Within this post made by Bill, the father of the family, he describes step by step every single part of the process of making this dish. This is definitely a site I'll be visiting next time when I feel like spicing up a dinner in the future!

Now the final blogging website I looked at was Lifehacker (https://lifehacker.com/tech). While the point of the site is to give random tips about things. It comes off to me as muddled without a certain point to it. Even in the tech section and specifically computing I found the posts there to be uninteresting and quite trivial to the average user. One example is a post regarding trying out the new icons for Windows 10 applications (https://lifehacker.com/how-to-try-out-windows-10s-new-system-icons-1841816126). With many of their posts similar to this, I cannot find this weblog keeping my interest for any amount of time.