Month: August 2021

Despite some variance among the different interviews, StoryCorps follow a fairly predictable and clean formula. It opens on light music with a narrator giving 10-30sec of background information, or it cold opens on an interviewee with no music, usually if its a particularly striking “hook.” While I initially thought that many of these were more… Continue reading Story Corps Analysis

This story is about the premature birth of Black babies in the context of rising Black maternal mortality in the United States. The segment is able to accomplish its goal of raising awareness by focusing on a very specific event that happened to specific, identifiable people. The recording includes not just one, but two interviewees… Continue reading Story Corps Analysis

Billie Eilish’s “bury a friend” (in all lowercase letters) released in 2019 is part of her debut studio album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (in all capital letters). The song was written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell who also produced the song. The song combines many styles and… Continue reading bury a friend- Billie Eilish

Rain on me was written and performed by singer-songwriter George Miller, or better known as his stage name Joji. The song was released on July 19th, 2017 on his record label’s youtube channel and soundcloud, 88rising. The song was one of the first of Joji’s serious musical career, with his previous focus being on comedy… Continue reading Rain on me – Joji

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