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.
Songs that Transcend Music and Become Pure Energy that Feeds the Soul
If we look back through out history we see that music has played a key role in the life of people. Some might even go with the theory that the world was "Sang Into Existence", (Michael McClain). Music can heal the body and soul, it can create movement in art, and can help a soul crying out in pain to feel whole again. The world is full of different song genre, and a person need only turn on the radio to find the song that speaks to their heart.
By Trycia Lino6 years ago in Beat
How East of Eli Changed My Life..
Have you ever heard a song or an album that made you break down and think about life, stare at the ceiling and feel the lyrics wrap around you like a blanket? That’s how I feel when I listen to East of Eli’s music. Over the past three years I have gone through some emotional and dark times in my life and I was looking for a ladder to pull myself out and this is around the time that Supergirl Season 2 was on TV which started Alex’s character’s coming out story line.
By Maelisha Kahlbaum6 years ago in Beat
Initiation
Ten was gangly white legs, in brown flared cords. It was 1977 in the Pacific Island nation known as Aotearoa, New Zealand. On weekday mornings I felt the wrath of Marilyn’s small, determined hands; brush strokes, tearing my scalp, in an effort to contain fuzzy blonde hair. Marilyn cared. Like a farmyard rooster, she broke our sleep, forced food down unwilling throats and groomed unruly bodies. Marilyn resided over the high gloss, canary yellow kitchen, with faux natural flooring and matching wooden handles. Marilyn also held court in the beige lounge room, between the olive, Sanderson drapes, cheap, European Old Masters and velvet upholstery.
By greenchristine6 years ago in Beat
Behind the beat: til it happens to you
So when you go through something hard or messy it's hard to figure out how to explain what you went through to other people. Imagine when people not only don't get what you went through but they say all the wrong things or they say all those cliches that well meaning people say but they don't really help.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Beat
Passkey to Splendor: How Stevie Wonder’s ‘As’ Revolutionized my Life
The needle on the vinyl crackles and fizzes. There’s a steady sound of clicks and beeps that precede the music. I’m just a fifteen-year-old from Newark, Delaware in 2003, listening to Dad’s rather extensive and thoroughly eclectic musical selections. Rose Royce. The Beatles. Elton John. Pink Floyd. The Stones. Sly and the Family Stone. They’re all here. But I pull one record out from a Mr. Stevie Wonder. I’ve grown up watching Stevie on numerous awards shows and heard some of his extensive catalogue over the years, but I have never received the pleasure of indulging in an entire album of his. I’ve heard the oft-said notion that this is the one album that you should take with you on a desert island if only given the choice to pick one. It is his magnum opus Songs in the Key of Life (1976). My ears become satellites, receiving the deep rhythms, funky breaks, slicing strings, clean keys, profound emotion, and soul-stirring lyricism. The entirety of the record is outstanding. “Sir Duke” and “Saturn” remain mainstays on my music playlists. But there is one song that stands out on the entire double album. Disc two, side four, track three or “As,” washes over me like warm and soapy bathwater. Before I drown in the audio, I then realize that I’m underwater from the sonic ecstasy and Stevie arouses me from being aquatically submerged to hear his voice turn from smooth and silky to coarse and forceful. He speaks of “life’s hates and troubles.” He acknowledges that there can be moments where the human form is tested. He brings to bear that accidents and calamities may happen at any time. But leaves the bar on a hopeful note and allows the floodgates of self-reflection to burst open.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Beat
In The End
“In the end, as we fade into the night Who will tell the story of your life?” October 2019 My mother was suddenly ripped away from this world. Taken by a blood clot to her heart, covered in the shadow of pneumonia. None of us saw it coming. She was sick from the pneumonia, but no close to death. Turned out Death had been lurking over her shoulder. We were all to blind to see it. None of us would believe you if you told us she was going to be in the hospital, fighting for her life, one normal Friday morning. With nurses and doctors struggling to save her life. Pushing deep into her chest to keep her blood flowing and get her heart to start beating again. We would have laughed at you.
By Shelby Schwartz6 years ago in Beat
I am Australian
My Favourite Song Choosing the song about which I am most passionate is not a problem. Without any doubt, it is “I am Australian”. The song was written in 1987 by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and by Dobe Newton of The Bushwackers. The lyrics were set to music by Bruce Woodley.
By Ian McKenzie6 years ago in Beat
Love, Life and Mirages
Mirage Def. 1. an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air. 2. an unrealistic hope or wish that cannot be achieved.
By Rebekah Crawley6 years ago in Beat
