humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.
My Toxic Brain Dance
Have you ever had a moment in your life where you look around and wonder how the hell you ended up here, in the grand daddy of all slumps and going nowhere? You're standing on a path that seems go on and on and has no end. It’s been coming on for a while, but that is where I find myself. I am adrift in a sea of suckadoodle and mediocrity just treading water.
By Katie L. Oswald (BookDragon)about a year ago in Beat
The Soundtrack of My Year
Every year tells a story, woven with unforgettable moments and underscored by a soundtrack that captures our deepest emotions. For me, 2024 was a year of transformation, learning, and discovery. Through its highs and lows, a series of songs became the companions to my most pivotal moments. Here is the soundtrack of my year—a deeply personal narrative intertwining memories, music, and emotions.
By GoldenSpeechabout a year ago in Beat
The Soundtrack of My Year
The Soundtrack of My Year: A Musical Journey Through Growth, Heartbreak, and Joy The songs that define a year are more than just melodies; they become timestamps, encapsulating emotions, moments, and lessons. For me, 2024 was a year of transformation—a journey filled with reflection, determination, heartbreak, empowerment, and a rediscovery of what truly matters. Each phase of my year had a unique soundtrack, a song that captured its essence and helped me navigate its challenges. Let me take you through this journey, one song at a time.
By GoldenSpeechabout a year ago in Beat
The Soundtrack of My Year
Music has always been more than entertainment; it has been my companion, a mirror reflecting my emotions, and a guide through life’s twists and turns. This year, five songs became my personal soundtrack, encapsulating moments of reflection, growth, heartbreak, joy, and love. Each track marked a chapter of my journey, weaving together a narrative that I carry with me as I step into the next year.
By GoldenSpeechabout a year ago in Beat
2024: The Year My Life Found Its Rhythm
Introduction: The Opening Notes Every year tells a story, a collection of moments that ebb and flow like a symphony. Some are quiet and contemplative, like the gentle hum of strings, while others are loud and chaotic, crashing like cymbals. For me, 2024 was an album filled with a kaleidoscope of emotions, each chapter accompanied by a song that encapsulated its essence.
By GoldenSpeechabout a year ago in Beat
L(ov/if)e Story
[A combination of “Letters of Gratitude” and “The Sountrack of Your Year” challenges] . . My love, We are reaching the end of this first year, 2024, with no interruption of you in my mind and I want to thank you for your constant presence in my nomad life. I want to give you something that would remain in our minds no matter the passing-by of years to come. Since I know you love music as much as I do, this letter will be a humble musical depiction of what my world looked like/felt like throughout the year. I want you to see how, even when you were not physically there at times, you were always there with me.
By Laura Rodbenabout a year ago in Beat
Sounds of the Cottage. Runner-Up in The Soundtrack of Your Year Challenge. Top Story - January 2025.
The evening that my best friend Julia texted, I was having a glass of wine with my husband. The dogs were sprawled all over us like live rugs, the windows and sliding door were open to let in the spring breeze and we were having one of those ‘intellectual masturbation’ sessions where you randomly discuss nothing and everything about life, including its meaning.
By Marlena Guzowskiabout a year ago in Beat
2024: The Saga Continues Pt. 2. Content Warning.
2024 has been a year of roller coaster emotions, and that's putting it lightly. Music has been there through every moment... the beauty and the horror. There are always two sides to every story, including mine for 2024. The first side covered the darkest moments, the failures, the despair, the pain and the heartbreak. It becomes easy to allow the moments of hopelessness to reign and overshadow the moments of light... but what good does that bring? The moments of joy, relief, calm and love may be few and far between... but they exist and that is what makes the music of them so much sweeter as 2024 concludes.
By Luna Verityabout a year ago in Beat
{Operants} Pt. I
As we wake where have we gone? There in a flash, most times, without leaving your place of rest. The future moves forth inexorably on its way to us at lightning speed. Unable to discern its orient we oftentimes find that our destination falls short of each path we take; as the famous saying goes. We tell ourselves that it’s absurd to value where you are or will be over the steps that've brought you there. Yet, we can forget that our mannerisms change with time. Minds change, people don't. This is an idea I had for a song title to a track I produced in high school, maybe 11th grade if memory serves.
By Kuro Seijaku about a year ago in Beat
Dust In The Wind
The music of my year, was also the music of my life. Music to me was more than a form of art, it was a living breathing person. I lost a few people this year, and one of them was my uncle Mark. And as far as music goes, my uncle Mark was music to me. He inspired my love for music since as far back as I can recall. As a small child I didn’t listen to kid songs or anything like that, I listened to what he told me to listen to. He inspired music into the whole family really. He sang like a country music angel and I always wished he had tried to make a career out of it. Now I know that it was a wonderful blessing from God to gift our family with his voice. It wasn’t for nothing, it was for us and that somehow makes it all the more special. He passed and the first thing I thought of was the song “American Pie” because that was truly the day music died for me. It will never be the same, no song will ever feel the same or sound the same to me because he’s gone. And I don’t mean that it’s ruined for me, it’s just slightly different somehow. Maybe I will get over this part of it eventually, but all music makes me think of him. And I am grateful for that.
By Raine Fielderabout a year ago in Beat
