I woke up with the sudden urge to listen to The Great Gatsby trailer this morning. The trailer begins with this smooth heavy riff that makes you feel powerful, that makes you feel movement. It makes you feel like your standing on top of the tallest towers staring out over the smallest people.
The song is "No Church in the Wild" by Kanye West and Jay Z.
The problem is, I don't really like rap music much. When I put that song in Pandora, the first song that came up was a Kanye West song that has the hook, "Let's make a toast to the douchebags." That song does not make me feel powerful. It pretty much just makes me feel like a douchebag.
Music tends to influence your mindset and push you in different emotional states. Good music, it's rare. It's hard to find. Once something becomes mainstream it doesn't sound good, dynamic, anymore. It sounds cheap and overplayed. I can't get behind listening to Kanye West. Although I haven't heard a lot of his beats, I just heard his voice way too much to want to follow him.
I listen to a lot of post rock. Bands like Arms and Sleepers, Explosions in the Sky, The Dandelion War, and Sigur Ros. The thing about this music is that at times it tends to sound really depressing. That changes my mood to a more melancholy and weak, almost vulnerable state.
This morning I listened to Commissure and Rattatat. The loud sounds and sporadic crescendos gets a good lively state out of me.
Does anyone have music that sounds unique yet aspires to this type of tone. Anyone know any type of music that instantly changes your state to be more in charge of your life and more ready to move forward? More motivated to begin the day?
The song is "No Church in the Wild" by Kanye West and Jay Z.
The problem is, I don't really like rap music much. When I put that song in Pandora, the first song that came up was a Kanye West song that has the hook, "Let's make a toast to the douchebags." That song does not make me feel powerful. It pretty much just makes me feel like a douchebag.
Music tends to influence your mindset and push you in different emotional states. Good music, it's rare. It's hard to find. Once something becomes mainstream it doesn't sound good, dynamic, anymore. It sounds cheap and overplayed. I can't get behind listening to Kanye West. Although I haven't heard a lot of his beats, I just heard his voice way too much to want to follow him.
I listen to a lot of post rock. Bands like Arms and Sleepers, Explosions in the Sky, The Dandelion War, and Sigur Ros. The thing about this music is that at times it tends to sound really depressing. That changes my mood to a more melancholy and weak, almost vulnerable state.
This morning I listened to Commissure and Rattatat. The loud sounds and sporadic crescendos gets a good lively state out of me.
Does anyone have music that sounds unique yet aspires to this type of tone. Anyone know any type of music that instantly changes your state to be more in charge of your life and more ready to move forward? More motivated to begin the day?
