Make You Feel My Love

Adele is one of my all time favorite singers. She is a British singer and songwriter who expanded her career by bringing to the States and it became a great success. She became the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. She is a very talented artist who has literally made history and become so successful at such a young age. I love every single one of her songs and I literally cant go a day without listening to her music. In class this week before class started we had a short conversation about how amazing Adele is so I decided to talk write about one of my favorite songs of hers for this week. “Make You Feel My Love” is one of my favorite songs. It is a very slow and tranquil song with only light piano music playing in the background. The song is a romantic love song that could soften anyones heart. It seems like she must have gone through a rough breakup or is falling in love with someone at the time because the main concept of the song is about how she wants this person to “feel her love.” The lyrics are about the things she would do for this person and how far she would go just for him feel how strong she feels about him. The lyrics are very exaggerated to show exactly how strong the love is. She uses examples like going hungry, going black and blue and to the ends of the earth for this person. The song is so touching because lyrics like those connect to the listeners emotional side and get them to fall just as in love with the song as she is with this person. 

This is the song if you guys would like to hear it. I recommend you listen to it. LOL it really is a great song and Id love to hear your feedback.

I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Earlier this week, Whitney Houston, one of the most influential women in the music industry passed away at the early age of 48 years old. She was the worlds best selling music artists, selling a record number of 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She was also in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most awarded female act of all time. Her music has influenced many groups of people of many ages, from 90 year olds to college students like you and me today. 

One of the songs that I want to focus on for this week, that I am sure you all should be familiar with is “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” It is a a fun 80’s pop record that could make anyone probably want to get up and dance. This song won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and it was also was considered an 80’s gem. It is Whitney Houston’s second biggest hit after “I Will Always Love You.” 

I personally like this song because whenever I listen to it, it always seems to put me in a  fun and excited mood. Not only did Whitney Houston have an amazing voice but it was also very carefree which was great for the song. The song is about a girl who is looking for a fun and exciting parter to taker her breath away and show her a good time. Its just a simple song about a young women looking for a little excitement in her life.

If you have not heard the song I recommend that you do, and I hope you like it. If you don’t, thats also understandable and I would love to hear opinions as to why you don’t or a song of hers that you prefer. 

Ohh N Love

Valentines Day is coming up! As a matter fact its only four days away! In the spirit of Valentines Day and for all of those people in love or even those people who still have not found that special someone I am making this weeks song a love song. 

I recently heard this song called “Ohh N Love” by an artist named Mateo and I absolutely fell in love with it. I constantly play it on repeat and I never seem to get tired of it. The song is about a man who is wondering if he will ever fall in love again. He meets a girl and he feels as if he is falling in love with her. In the chorus he says “I want to be the song she loves and I never thought I'd say this baby.” One of the thing people fall most deeply in love with is music and throughout the song he relates her to his new favorite song. In the second verse he says “So long I've been lookin' for chances of this harmony. Now I know that she's the lyric and the tune that explains the meaning of life.

There is no music without her to give it to, yes I'm fallin' but can't seem to find the words for her yeah.” He explains how she is the lyrics and the tune that describes his whole life and how she is his favorite song that he loves to hear. 

I personally love this song because I know how much music means to me and how it influences me. I am definitely a hopeless romantic and the idea of someone loving another person the way that they love a song is pretty amazing to me. Music is a way to touch parts of people and feelings that people never knew they really had and for another person to do that is really special. 

 This is a beautiful song and it may not touch you the way it touched me, but I know there are other love songs that have and I would love to know what they are. 

More Than I Can Bear

This week has been a very stressful and difficult week for me. I have been stressing out over school work and so many exams that have been coming up. On top of all of that I am very active in school and I have so many meetings to go to, so finding time to study and relax can be very difficult. Sometimes dealing with school, extra curricular activities and my social life can be very hard to balance. Most of the time when I am stressed my way of calming down it to listen to music, preferably gospel music. One of the songs that makes me feel better is a song by Kirk Franklin called “More Than I Can Bear.” It is a song about how nomatter what you could be going through and nomatter how hard things may be, God will never put more stress or difficulties than you can bear. The lyrics are very simple and repetitive and basically state “I've gone through the fire and I've been through the flood. I've been broken into pieces, seen lightnin' flashin' from above. But through it all I remember that He loves me and He cares and He'll never put more on me than I can bear.” The lyrics are not fancy or complex, but they are very positive. Sometimes the most simple words are the words that make the biggest impact and thats what most gospel music is. It is not about making the best beat for the song and having the best singers to sing it, its is about sending out a message. I feel like this song sends out a perfect message. Many times people feel as if they can not overcome the difficult times in life and they are not as strong as they really are. They do not have to have faith and believe in God either. Songs like this are just reminders of ones abilities and they would not be facing these problems if they were not able to overcome them.