Melodrama
my thoughts and opinions on crushes and Lorde's 'Melodrama'
This morning, I realized that I've been slacking on clearing my head through pen and paper.
I woke up, brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, and cleared out my work area and began to journal.
Journaling is such a great way to take away and clean up the burdens (and messiness) that weighs down your mind. I genuinely feel physically and mentally lighter doing this every time I have the chance to make sure I stay a healthy and happy human. Life can be difficult, but why not document it and make bearing it a little bit easier?
You can learn more about yourself through writing physically. It's that physical aspect that can aid your own self growth.
Enough rambling aside, let me get to the topic of A CRUSH.
If you want to view my handwriting and the actual entry into my journal this morning, scroll down further through this blog post. If not, here are my views on crushes and how it linked into me thinking about the album 'Melodrama' and what I've learned from listening to it.
Text form:
It's funny how crushes work - for a couple months to a year you can be so absorbed into their energy and charisma for life that you forget the unique energies that shape your own self-identity and soul. Becoming infatuated with someone may be healthy for a couple of weeks or a month, or too, but tracking their every move on Twitter and on social media - not healthy, for sure.
Among other thoughts, living vicariously like this has also inspired and has (cultivated) my fashion sense, (even) the food I eat, how I shape my identity, my dreams?, from people such as Soko, Devendra Banhart, Lorde, Jack Antonoff, Miley Cyrus (to name a few) in how they are in touch with their own emotions and how they actively portray these emotions in their own music and the songs they write.
Watching, but almost obsessing about the work of those people in a healthy (and fan-girly way) has allowed me to see and take pieces from artists that I adore and how they figure out the sh*tty, troublesome, and terrible parts of their life.
A Commentary on Lorde's Melodrama and how it has defined My 2017 Summer
Lorde, (and) her album called 'Melodrama' are considered by many of her fans to be a piece of art beyond the definition of perfection. 'Melodrama' takes such great power to create angst, happiness, depression - all the emotions that a teenager or person of any age in a relationship can feel - through the lyrics and instrumentals of 11 tracks/songs.
In several interviews, Lorde describes her connection between hearing and making music with her synesthesia. Colors that she associates (and is able to view) with every single word and lyric of her 11 tracks are translated into the cool purple and blue-violet tones of her album artwork.
Personally, when I listen to her whole album in order, the way that "Green Light," the first track of the song symbolizes the start of a relationship between a lover, others such as "Liability" highlight the dark and heart wrenching facets of a romance where the girl can no longer freely, truly, and genuinely match the needs and expectations of her lover (through my own perspective); (she) describes herself as feeling like "a toy that people enjoy till all of the tricks don't work anymore, and then they get bored of me."
This piece that Lorde has cultivated speaks the truth and beautifully connects to those that have experienced this own heartache. Seeing the beauty and the colors of the earth for the true emotions that they portray, all while appreciating the wonders of what a relationship can leave, create, or rebuild between two people is what I've enjoyed and have found to be so special about the theme of Melodrama.
"What the hell are Perfect Places...anyway?"
My actual journal entry:
(I'm almost at the end of my journal so that's why the middle parts became bulky and made the scans blurry)
by nomwonton
This morning, I realized that I've been slacking on clearing my head through pen and paper.
I woke up, brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, and cleared out my work area and began to journal.
Journaling is such a great way to take away and clean up the burdens (and messiness) that weighs down your mind. I genuinely feel physically and mentally lighter doing this every time I have the chance to make sure I stay a healthy and happy human. Life can be difficult, but why not document it and make bearing it a little bit easier?
You can learn more about yourself through writing physically. It's that physical aspect that can aid your own self growth.
Enough rambling aside, let me get to the topic of A CRUSH.
If you want to view my handwriting and the actual entry into my journal this morning, scroll down further through this blog post. If not, here are my views on crushes and how it linked into me thinking about the album 'Melodrama' and what I've learned from listening to it.
Text form:
It's funny how crushes work - for a couple months to a year you can be so absorbed into their energy and charisma for life that you forget the unique energies that shape your own self-identity and soul. Becoming infatuated with someone may be healthy for a couple of weeks or a month, or too, but tracking their every move on Twitter and on social media - not healthy, for sure.
Among other thoughts, living vicariously like this has also inspired and has (cultivated) my fashion sense, (even) the food I eat, how I shape my identity, my dreams?, from people such as Soko, Devendra Banhart, Lorde, Jack Antonoff, Miley Cyrus (to name a few) in how they are in touch with their own emotions and how they actively portray these emotions in their own music and the songs they write.
Watching, but almost obsessing about the work of those people in a healthy (and fan-girly way) has allowed me to see and take pieces from artists that I adore and how they figure out the sh*tty, troublesome, and terrible parts of their life.
A Commentary on Lorde's Melodrama and how it has defined My 2017 Summer
Lorde, (and) her album called 'Melodrama' are considered by many of her fans to be a piece of art beyond the definition of perfection. 'Melodrama' takes such great power to create angst, happiness, depression - all the emotions that a teenager or person of any age in a relationship can feel - through the lyrics and instrumentals of 11 tracks/songs.
In several interviews, Lorde describes her connection between hearing and making music with her synesthesia. Colors that she associates (and is able to view) with every single word and lyric of her 11 tracks are translated into the cool purple and blue-violet tones of her album artwork.
Personally, when I listen to her whole album in order, the way that "Green Light," the first track of the song symbolizes the start of a relationship between a lover, others such as "Liability" highlight the dark and heart wrenching facets of a romance where the girl can no longer freely, truly, and genuinely match the needs and expectations of her lover (through my own perspective); (she) describes herself as feeling like "a toy that people enjoy till all of the tricks don't work anymore, and then they get bored of me."
This piece that Lorde has cultivated speaks the truth and beautifully connects to those that have experienced this own heartache. Seeing the beauty and the colors of the earth for the true emotions that they portray, all while appreciating the wonders of what a relationship can leave, create, or rebuild between two people is what I've enjoyed and have found to be so special about the theme of Melodrama.
"What the hell are Perfect Places...anyway?"
My actual journal entry:
(I'm almost at the end of my journal so that's why the middle parts became bulky and made the scans blurry)
by nomwonton
Comments
Post a Comment