Category: fall 2021

Phantom Thread is a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson about tenderness among difficult personalities and the ways love can be sadistic. The score, by Anderson’s long-term collaborator Jonny Greenwood matches and enhances the tone and themes of this film beautifully. This is the first track in the Phantom Thread score and it mirrors some… Continue reading Phantom Thread I by Johnny Greenwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPjZmQAvk_8 Note: This is Hurricane from Kanye West’s new album Donda, the link won’t embed but it should take you directly to the audio on youtube; it’s available on all streaming platforms. Kanye West has a reputation of taking his sound design very seriously, so this song is recorded and mixed very well. It starts… Continue reading Hurricane – Donda

Solar Prestige A Gammon is a song written by famous singer-songwriter Elton John. After different controversies popped up around some of Elton’s songs and their meanings, he became fed up with the idea that every song just had to have a meaning to it. He went to his lyric writer, Bernie Taupin, and requested a… Continue reading Solar Prestige A Gammon

Heathens by twenty øne piløts was written by band member Tyler Joseph for the DC Comics supervillain movie, Suicide Squad in 2016. The song was a hit for the alternative rock band, earning the number two spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and receiving three Grammy nominations. The band aimed to capture the dark and… Continue reading Heathens – twenty øne piløts

This story is pretty short, being a little under 3 minutes. The storyteller speaks at a gradual pace, and it seems that the editor took the important pieces of sweet memories and assembled them together to paint this picture of her relationship with her grandfather. Halfway through, the story shifts to the impact of those… Continue reading Story Corps Analysis– Emilie Osborne

YNW Melly is a Florida rapper known for his raw, emotive expression of tragic life experiences. Melly’s song “Far Apart” featuring Kevin Gates from his 2021 album “Just a Matter of Slime” qualifies itself as an interesting subject of production because it includes sound that can be easily recognized as a collect phone call from… Continue reading Far Apart

For this story, Connie Rocha remembers the time she entered WWII at the young age of 16 where she began working at Kelly field as a sheet metal mechanic and then later after transferring to another repair depot in Hawai’i she continued to work as a aircraft mechanic till the end of the war and… Continue reading We Can Do It: How One Woman Found Independence During WWII- StoryCorps

In this story, Melanie Dunne and sister Marissa Miranda remember Josh Dunne, Melanie’s husband and retired marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Josh then struggled for years with a traumatic brain injury and severe PTSD. This story was paced as a memorandum, with a solemn song in the background of the opening and closing… Continue reading StoryCorps – Grayden Knoll

“Bandaid on a Bullet Hole”, is on the album “Dangerous”, by country superstar Morgan Wallen, which was released earlier this year in January. Like a bunch of country songs it is about a broken relationship. Wallen does a good job with the intro, as it is slow with a piano rhythm flowing well with the… Continue reading Bandaid on a Bullet Hole -Morgan Wallen

The hit song off the soundtrack of the 2008 blockbuster book adaptation Twilight, Bella’s Lullaby is a piece of music most young people could recognize by ear. This being an orchestral piece of score there are a variety of instrument types that come together in this piece. Strings and percussion are the two that play… Continue reading Bella’s Lullaby