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  02:34 | 0 Cloud(s) Tamil song I liked !Kakidha Kappal by Santosh Narayanan as featured in Madras(2014) Lyrics Translation Did your paper boat topple and drown in the sea? Sad & depressed, having failed in love, hands on your cheek, for everyone to see So young, your age, there should be no fear to hold a running snake in your bare hands,You are climbing a drumstick tree, that breaks as you climb, down to the sands.What reached your hands, did not reach your mouth**
(Retrieved from this blog) Gist of the lyric: 02:07 | 0 Cloud(s)PIERCE THE VEIL pt. 3
Before we start, let me just warn you that this might be the last time I post about Pierce the Veil because there's so much on them that I would like to publish everything but I shouldn't . Alright, proceed to the last selected songs of them (as in my favorite list).
4. King For A Day (Genre: Post-hardcore)
King for a Day is a song by American rock band Pierce the Veil released on June 5, 2012. It features guest vocals by Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens. It is the first official single from their third studio album Collide with the Sky (2012) (Whitt, 2012).
I would say, if any of you guys haven't heard about this song, then you are missing something in your life.This song is so legendary that any of the boys in my high school would sing the lyrics right to the content of their hearts. Everything is just perfect in this song that . Kellin Quinn’s voice goes perfectly with this genre of song, the post-hardcore. The screamo is well-done and the guitars' riffs are intriguing. Such a great collaboration that this band and Kellin had made. Check out this article to know more on the collaboration and album production process!
I think this song is about someone being pushed around a lot, generally by the society and wanting to commit suicide from all the despair on hardships they have been getting. It says The line "imagine living like a king someday" in the lyrics are meant to be as an encouragement for person to hang on a little bit longer, or just implying, "if you killed yourself, you would never get to be the king".However, in the last part of the song when the vocalist sings "We'd rather die than live to rust on the ground," I think it is a way of saying that there's no point in carrying on, giving a meaning that he had given up on life entirely.The word "shit" in the background music indicated that person who has jumped off "the Jersey bridge" in the song,was regretting it, but it's too late since he already did it anyway.
01:12 | 0 Cloud(s)PIERCE THE VEIL's songs pt. 23. I Don't Care If You're Contagious
“I Don’t Care If You’re Contagious” is a tragically beautiful love song about a boy who passed away but doesn’t want to be separated from his girlfriend. "I wrote a great deal of these lyrics after a young fan had explained to me that her boyfriend had just recently died in a car accident. She told me that he held her hand for the first time at one of our shows. She told me that she just wanted to thank us for being a part of their lives. This was one of the most shocking and heartbreaking things I’d ever heard. I wrote the song as a gift to her. It’s meant to be her boyfriend speaking to her, telling her that he is still watching over her and that he will love her forever. -Vic Fuentes, Vocalist of Pierce the Veil (Genius Media Group, 2011)
Personally, before I did some research on this song, I had an assumption this song is written for a girl whom the singer loves but she doesn't love herself so he's trying to convince her, saying that all her imperfections are beautiful and he will never stop loving her till death do them apart. This is based on the lines "I don't care if you're sick, I don't care if you're contagious, I would kiss you even if you were dead," as despite all her imperfections, he will always love her, it wouldn't matter if she was sick or dying, he would still be by her side. What a sweet yet sickening love story for that guy was willing to blind if he could so that that girl won't feel ashamed by her inferiority.
(to be continued)
21:19 | 2 Cloud(s)Pierce the Veil's songs pt. 1
Before we 'get onto' the list of songs, first, let us know some facts about this favorite band of mine.Pierce the Veil was founded by Mike Fuentes and Vic Fuentes in 2006 (Corey, 2013). Formed in 2006, the band was founded by brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes after the disbandment of the group Before Today (formerly Early Times, which was formed out of the San Diego punk rock scene (San Diego Reader, 2015). Now, let's talk about their songs which I treasured deep inside of my heart. Uwu.
These are their songs that I like.
1. Besitos
Featured in the album 'Selfish Machine' which consists of my all-time-favorite tracks, there's no other perfect phrase to describe how this album is my favorite album that had ever produced because all the songs are masterpiece in every creations!
Besitos, is a Spanish word for kisses, tells a story. The characters a boy and a
girl, a pair of opposites. He is organized and unadventurous, while she is
quite the opposite. She lives in the fast lane, addicted to drugs and
constantly showing up at his place unexpected. He is living a horrible
reality that is induced by her fake reality that is her guilty pleasure -
her drugs - and while she is happy he has to deal with it. Basically, this song is a narration of how a boy fell in love with the drug addicted messed up girls who ended up getting killed because of addiction and how he copes with her death by trying to do same things she did in her life.
Lyrically, it's about the dysfunctional relationship between the persona in the lyrics. It is from the boy's perspective to try and understand what she was going
through in her lifetime but sadly, he too got addicted into the same mess and suffered because of this.
2. Disasterology
I think this song is about self harm or suicide in a very well hidden way. It is obvious as it talks about self harm when it says "Oh, what a waste of a perfectly good clean wrist" meaning that he is becoming obsessed to scar his wrist .My deduction is that when
he says "Can we create something beautiful and destroy it?" He is
talking about his life, which is something originally beautiful, and how he
destroyed it with self harm. When he says "I have a million different
girls that hide,under my bed and when i let them out they treat me
right" he is referring to his razor blades and how he finds relief after using them to harm himself. In general, this song takes the perspective of a person who battled with self-harm and how he regrets about it yet couldn't leave the thought of doing it.
06:34 | 0 Cloud(s)HERE'S TO THE RIDIN' SOLO !
Hi guys! Who else here haven't found their rightful boyfriend or girlfriend yet?
 Whoever you are, don't worry because the time will come soon and we just have to wait. Be patient everyone. While you are single, young, wild and free, do enjoy your bachelor's life to the fullest because that moments would be something that you miss when you got caught up in your relationship life. 
Ahem! Well-said from someone who had literally been single from the day she was born. Hohohoho.
Well, sometimes there are times when I wish I could hangout with a partner of mine, I mean, in romantic relationship but yeah, I always come to realize that I am as solo as Han Solo. Okay, that was so lame. Stop it.
So here are the songs to jam when you kind of embracing that 'single-forever-vibes' you wish to sometimes end but sometimes love.
 Okay, let's just proceed because the introduction is getting lame.
1. Dear No One by Tori Kelly
"I’d love to have a soulmate, and God will give him to me someday."
This pop song really represents my situation well.
It tells us about an introvert yet independent persona who is not in any kind of love relationship but waiting for someone worthy instead of searching for it. Should I say, 'let the right time give you the right person' is kind of message this song trying to preach. By the way, the 10 seconds guitar intro of this song is pleasant to listen to accompanied by the faint piano sounds throughout the music that you could barely heard if you listen to this song alone in the secluded place!
2. Death of A Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco
"Death of a Bachelor" is a song by American rock band Panic! at the Disco from the band's fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor (Sharp, 2015).
"The track is a poignant mix of Frank Sinatra and Beyonce, while still painting Panic!’s ever-evolving motif". -Brendon Urie of P!ATD .
This song is in reference to the bachelorhood of the singer itself, where he used to feel like he was alone, probably a reference to his single life before he met his partner and like the appealing aspects of his bachelor life are being shown to not be as wonderful as he thought they were
 .This song is apparently addressed to a female he liked who is his wife, and as he gets to know her better he starts to wonder how being a bachelor even makes sense.  Thus begins the death of his singleness as in the chorus, He realizes that his bachelorhood's death is well worth the benefit of this relationship. 
This track basically, in contrast to the first song, it made me realize how the concept of 'alone not lonely' is not applicable to me sometimes. Well, there are times when we long for someone to call dear or the special one.
 03:03 | 0 Cloud(s)BILLIE EILLISH pt.2
WARNING : This post is the continuation of the Billie Eillish pt. 1 since she is currently my favorite singer and I found many of her songs are my total cup of tea due to the expressiveness in the lyrics and interesting fictional plots. Hello, by the way.
According to Billie Eillish herself, this is the first song that she actually wrote as a whole when she was twelve. She said that this song is about zombie apocalypse which she wrote in the songwriting class taught by her mother. She mentioned in an interview how her mother plays a huge part of she and her brother's songwriting habits by giving them assignment to watch a movie or show and jot down certain lines which they thought would be a good catch for hooks, titles or names. Apparently, she was a huge fan of The Walking Dead and had an apocalypse song in her mind which unexpectedly came out as a longing song.
 "A longing despair, which wasn't my intention, but it happened. People really like it and it was weird, because I didn't care for it that much, and I just put it out because I wanted to. I don't know if it was that one or another song that I wrote about dying. Dark. Very dark."
I actually found the song while I was browsing through the YouTube and in the mood of melancholy, since it appeared on the suggestion list. Lucky enough I decided to 'give it a go' and clicked. As Ellie had said, it is a longing song so no wonder I felt a tinge of loneliness when I heard the melody alongside with the lyrics on the screen. Before I went through an article which interviewed the singer describing this song, I never really had an image of zombie apocalypse or anything fictional instead of imagining the persona of the song was trapped in a war and her loved one was killed. My mind was as simple as that. I thought that this song was all about fighting to live after our loved one had gone but in reality it turns out quite far from what I imagined.
 That is what a good song is all about. Same vibe but different interpretation to every listeners.
Next Ellie's song is entitled Bored which was featured in the Netflix Original Series, "13 Reasons Why." This track is actually a standalone single released by her way before the series started and received a music video last year on June 26. The music video is pleasantly nice which portrays the story of someone who got used to being trapped in a relationship that was going nowhere and treated so badly in that kind of relationship. When I first heard this song played on the YouTube, I thought it was about abusive relationship but the actual meaning indeed is more universal because some scars called feelings aren't visible.
So this is a wrap for top 4 songs of Billie Eillish that I like. See you when I see you~  15:25 | 0 Cloud(s)BILLIE EILLISH pt. 1
Young but artistically expressive
 . She started writing her songs since she was eleven. As someone who was older than her, I tried to compare and recall what I had done when I was in eleven years old and I figured out, during that age, I barely knew anything about feelings, disappointment and depression. Indeed, kids these days are amazing and way advanced . Perhaps the talents run in the veins as she was born to a family of actors and musicians.Her parents are actress-musician-screenwriter Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell (Bain, 2017). 
So here's a little not to much facts about her since less is more...
Speaking about her music, since I first discovered her song, which entitled 'idontwannabeyouanymore', I remembered it was the first song of her that I've ever known which had left quite a prominent impact on me despite barely knew any of the lyrics
 . It was such a strong yet a weak song, which had left me in a depression state due to the lyrics that contain so much self-rejection . The title itself, is written in a full lowercase characters without punctuation marks due to the stressing content of the song which is meant to dismissed the singer identity and represent self-denial of the persona. 
This track, which is hard-hitting, downcast, wistful, and an all round slower jam than previous cuts "COPYCAT" and "watch," still slices straight down to the bone somehow since it has a vocal vulnerability and innocence that wouldn't sound out of place in Tarantino's Kill Bill (Bartlet, 2017).
"The juxtaposition of innocent-sounding vocals with darker subject matter, a 3/4 time signature, soaring soprano harmonies and vocal layering – it’s all here," My second top favorite song of her that I like is Bellyache. According to the singer herself, one of the line in the song which is —'I thought that I'd feel better, but now I gotta bellyache'—is about how you kinda know that you're the worst but you don't care. It's about a psychopath who regrets being a psychopath but doesn't really care (Barlow, 2017). 
When I first listened to this song, there was this eerie feeling that traveled down my spine as I imagined the persona of this song is a killer who killed her friends for money and feeling heartless about the crime she committed and after I searched for the song's description I was confirmed- indeed, it was really a song about killing people.  If I were to describe the genre of the song, I would probably say it sounds much like acoustic-led, Latin-influenced macabre tale with repetitive chorus of light r&b beats. (to be continued...)  11:49 | 1 Cloud(s)METALHEADEvery 90s kids must have undergone some rebellious phase or might even once considered themselves as an emo kid  . In this case, I am not any different. I used to be infused into this kind of culture and of course, it did influence my music preferences  since I stop listening to k-pop and got indulged into emo-kind-of-music long before I realised, I got over it when I was in form 5. Examples of the musicians that I was into during that time are Pierce the Veil, My Chemical Romance, Green day and many more. Okay, hold on because I think I should make a list. A neat list . So here are the bands that I used to listen to in the old days;
There are many other bands that I subscribed to but if I were to list everything here, this post would become a journal review I guess.
 Emo started entering the mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the success of Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional and many artists signed to major record labels. Bands such as My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus continued the genre's popularity during the rest of the decade. As I was born in 1998, this kind of music was nearly overplayed on the radio during my childhood era therefore, it was no wonder that I felt really familiar with this culture.  This subculture is stereotyped with emotion, sensitivity, misanthropy, shyness, introversion and angst, as well as depression, self-harm and suicide. Its quick rise in popularity in the early 2000s inspired a backlash, with bands such as My Chemical Romance and Panic! at the Disco rejecting the emo label for the social stigma and controversy surrounding it.
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