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.
All Smiles
The year is 2016. While working alone in my apartment, I’m becoming increasingly aggravated that my MacBook Pro won’t just let me be great. As an aspiring rapper, songwriter and producer with only small windows of time between my soul-sucking 9-5 job, these moments of ‘freedom’ to create are truly precious. Usually, when one thinks of a color wheel, it would seemingly bring feelings of joy or comfort....but for Apple users...well...F**k Color Wheels!! The vultures had slowly but surely been swarming around my laptop’s lifeline for some time now and I think that...this might be….CRAAAAAAAAASSHHHHHH….black screen.
Archie L. GreenPublished 4 years ago in BeatButterflies & Hurricanes by Muse
It was probably one of the worst times in my life. I had a lot of crazy things that happened up until 2012. My grandfather had just passed away from cancer. My mother had given up on fighting cancer herself and decided to go through palliative care to end her life. Obviously, I was distraught about the whole thing.
Brian AnonymousPublished 4 years ago in BeatHigh Hopes
Music can strike a chord on your soul at any age. It can transcend the days of darkness and forever etch in our memories the lightness of love, the days of carefree youth, and the dawn of our golden years. It can change your mood, it can set your mood, and it can record your mood. Music transports you in and out of moments in your life. It can be an anchor and it can be like a hot balloon soaring up to the clouds. It makes new memories and reinforces past ones. Music is your one true friend and also the party. It is the chameleon of life that changes tempo and beat to match its listener. Music knows no limits and transcends all ages, races, gender, and religion. It is the original equal rights opportunity. It can act as your therapist, priest, lover, and best friend. It can be the soft shoulder to cry on and the pep talk calling you out of a slump. Music is the conductor of life that transmutes the passages of time. It plays many roles in the trajectories of life. Whatever situation presents itself in life, music is there to provide the soundtrack of the time.
Rachelle GarciaPublished 4 years ago in BeatThe Making of an A.R.M.Y
This paper could trigger anyone with depression and/or suicidal thoughts. PLEASE be advised, and do not read this if you don’t think you can handle these themes.
Catt McCartneyPublished 4 years ago in BeatThe fate of my soul
You never know how music will hit you and what it will do to you until the moment it stops everything you're doing in your tracks and really makes you listen, possibly putting you in your feels. It's always at unexpected times but when it happens its magical. The moment i listened to Indie rocker Taylor John Williams, his remastered version of The Mates of Soul touched me in a way i never thought it would. Before i met Ray i was in a previous relationship for six years, oh did i think i was inlove with this boy but i was just infatuated with him you see. I gave this boy everything i had, i was ready to be his wife and he was ready to slip into the next chick who was ready to spread his legs for him, until he got another girl pregnant. I never would have known that he was cheating just always felt it in my gut if it was for the blessing in disguise, Stephanie.
Behind Warren Zevon’s ‘The Hula-Hula Boys’
I knew something was wrong from the moment he spoke. In fact, there had been a lingering wrongness for some time. “C’mon son, let’s go on a trip,” Dad said.
Walter RheinPublished 4 years ago in BeatLinkin Park Songs That I Can Relate To
Linkin Park Songs That I Can Relate To The songs that got me through my darkest times Greetings, Vocal readers. I decided to take a break from talking about cosplay and instead, talk about one of my other favorite hobbies. This is my first article about music and I’m going to talk about a band that I grew up listening to. That band is none other than Linkin Park. I’m a huge fan of theirs and I first started listening to them, dating back to middle school. It was around 2001, almost a year after their debut album, Hybrid Theory, was released. I was 13 years old about to start the 7th grade. In fact, in October, it’ll be 20 years since that album first came out. Yes, time sure flies. When the news broke back in 2017 that Chester Bennington died, I was in shock and in tears. It was like my heart came out of my chest and cracked in two. His loss hit me so hard and millions of LP fans everywhere. Even though he’s no longer with us, he’s spiritually here in our hearts. Whenever I listen to a specific Linkin Park song, I get emotional, because it’s something that I can relate to. Below are some songs from them that got me through life, in no specific order.
Mark Wesley PritchardPublished 4 years ago in BeatMy Gospel Soliloquy: His Eye Is on the Sparrow
As a singer, I have to be able to connect to a song. I can not imagine singing a song without singing from my heart. Also, I believe that a dull performance with no emotion is a poor performance.
Zari's DiaryPublished 4 years ago in BeatGlitter in the Air
The first time I listened this song, I was alone in the dark. The silence surrounded me, streetlights shone their way into my bedroom. Using the shadows from naked trees and the haphazard spaces between my blinds as a guide. I could feel the tears as they dropped from the corner of my eyes, into cold surface of my pillow, warming them with what little of my happiness they had trapped inside.
Stand By Me
Play “in the night, mummy” said my youngest daughter earnestly, “Play in the night” I looked at her heart shaped face, her beautiful grey green eyes pleading with me. I smiled at her as I reached for my guitar, it was a favourite and a song that I loved from way back. Its actual title is Stand By Me and it invoked in me a confidence that life would be ok. The song basically says if everything goes to shit, that someone or something will be there to count on.
The songs that connect me to you..
Using Music as a connection to my life and feelings each day, It's hard not to relate to songs that flood me with pride, belief and unbreakable love for you. Words are not always easy for any of us to share how we feel, it can be that sometimes another tool is needed to show our emotions towards someone or a situation. Sometimes it's gifts, written words in a card or hearing a song that speaks to their heart and shares our aching expressions through the artist beating with the feelings within, that help us say everything we have wanted too but maybe couldn't find the words yourself.
Samuel-JamesPublished 4 years ago in BeatMusic and Podcasting
I am a creative person. I have always been involved in projects and hobbies that have something to do with some kind of music or writing. I have been a musician and a singer/songwriter since I was seventeen years old. I played in rock and metal bands around the Detroit area for many years.
Vince SmithPublished 4 years ago in Beat