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.
"He he, this is music, yeah!"
OMG, I have found something incredible this week. As a poet, I love to play with words, the form of the poetry, plus the origin of the poetry. I love to put together the amount of syllables, the amount of words, all together with a theme, rhyme scheme etc...
Agnes LaurensPublished 2 years ago in BeatTragedies Like AstroworldFest Is the Reason I Vowed to Never Club Again
It was an “us against the world” kind of Saturday night. My best friend and I made a quick weekend trip to Atlanta from Charlotte, only about 3.5 hours of driving. Anytime me or my girls headed towards 85 South, a good time was sure to be had. Unfortunately, this would be the night that I vowed never to club again.
Tamika Morrison OkelekePublished 2 years ago in BeatSong To The Siren (The Song)
"Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was released by Buckley on his 1970 album Starsailor. I recently wrote a poem based on the concept of this song and then read the lyrics to the song and mine absolutely paled into complete insignificance against the original lyrics.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 3 years ago in BeatPiano Keys
It's kept in a room of high ceiling, gold, and rose walls, but not alone as through the day it is accompanied by a woman who finds the peace and at the same time the power in simply sitting down next to a piano, not just any piano, a piano which was around all her life. Since she never had the opportunity to explore a lot as a girl, music became her outlet when feeling the most alone, all the happiness and sadness became one of the most beautiful melodies every time she sat down on that little chair. Every morning and sometimes through the evening, while entering the room, with her dark blue dress, setting her hair free, let alone she begins to play the piano keys, as her eyes close shut, everything becomes a beautiful black and white, with the vision of herself dancing barefoot in the open air, every single touch of the piano gives her something nothing ever has before, the burst to feel alive and effortlessly powerful. This talent of hers has become a remedy, whenever the woman performs in front of an audience, anyone who comes across the sound of this music never fails to be impacted because whenever she plays, the crowd spontaneously starts swaying around, slow dancing, some just sit there with a glance of such enjoyment, it's as if regardless of anyone's situation, they suddenly come alive, take the initiative that the thought of her high keynotes can be taken as beautiful, wild, and boisterous. The surroundings and setting become present, this woman performed like no other, so remarkable that when the time comes to perform in towns, cities, or in a different country, the tickets sell out almost immediately.
Jimena FavelaPublished 3 years ago in BeatThe Broken Mind of a Harp
I have been waiting for this night for months now, my entire life really. I have been practicing and rehearsing relentlessly. My fingers are callused and tired. Nothing will stop me from giving my best. Giving my all. Not even the traces of blood that peak through the band-aid on my right middle finger. I will be known as one of the best harpists to have ever played, no matter the sacrifices.
NoShameIn / Tee MeePublished 3 years ago in Beat- Top Story - October 2021
Music for Leaving
It was a Thursday and I had two days to get this thing done before the weekend while packing to leave home forever, so I was a little rushed.
Kevin RollyPublished 3 years ago in Beat - First Place in Graveyard Smash Challenge
Glass of Red, Wrong Address
Darling creature, sweet human, I think you have found yourself at the wrong soirée. Do not panic, my love. You cannot disguise the beating of your heart from me. It has been the percussive soundtrack to every meal I have enjoyed since the Industrial Revolution. But you have nothing to worry about, I swear upon the earth of the grave. We are people of more... refined sensibilities.
Nines HearstPublished 3 years ago in Beat The Magic of Studio Albums
To me, compilation albums have little worth. There are some as collective pieces, including New Order's "Substance" (Disc 1 in my experience), that I appreciate even in the context of their conglomeration.
An Ode to Mothers
Like many other little girls in the early 2000s my sister and I had fallen victim to the Jonas Brothers. Whether it was spending way too long in the magazine aisle at Duane Read reading teen magazines and deciding if the ones with the pull-out Jonas Brothers magazine were worth the $4.99 or sitting in our room listening to songs we illegally downloaded on Limewire, we were obsessed. Of course my sister went for the bad boy middle brother, Joe, while I was more into the younger sensitive type, Nick. Kevin was also part of the band but I’m convinced he was just there for optical symmetry. I’m not quite sure how my sister stumbled upon the information but she found out that on a random October day the Jonas Brothers would be performing at Six Flags of all places. Six Flags was in the state over and about a two hour drive from our house. This was before the smartphone, google map days. It was during those days that any road trip meant the risk of taking one wrong turn, casting the printed out Mapquest directions useless and subsequently trying to make sense of the contradictory directions collected from random pedestrians. With none of this responsibility to bear, my sister ardently begged my mother to take us to six flags on the day of the performance.
Maesia FarahPublished 3 years ago in BeatSocial Perspective Of Music
Social perspective in any music empowers the music to have meaning and be more agreeable to the crowd and the entertainers.
- Top Story - September 2021
How a rap artist who died of Covid impacted my life.
After googling a particular track by rap artist 'Ty', I was shocked to discover he died of Covid last year, aged 47. I've never followed him that closely and the last time I listened to him was 18 months ago. But yesterday, I found myself wanting to submerge into the steady thumps and flicks of a track I couldn't even remember the name of. I found it - Let's Start - and with it the sad news.
LET'S HEAR A TRUMPET SOLO
As a Roadie for a local traveling band operating on a broken shoe-string budget, you get used to getting by with what's on hand to get the job done. Rule number 1... duct tape fixes everything. Rule number 2, don't run out of duct tape.
Lailokken le`GrasPublished 3 years ago in Beat