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by Mica Kendall<\/p>\n

Amongst the music spectrum of top hits, themes of falling in love and experiencing heartbreak from a past relationship are concepts most common in the music we hear from major artists and on the radio today. The superfluous fluff of being all too consumed in love at first sight or how the world stops spinning when you are with a significant other is primarily dependent upon the notion that one has to be with someone. Though, this criticism sounds like something a curmudgeon would say it cannot be helped that some music listeners would want to divert from the norm of pop\u2019s top hits and look for music encompassing a sense of realism. Realism can be found in the human emotions that we all experience or go through including loneliness, self-doubt, anxiety, existentialism, and more. Even though all forms of music can be considered to contain realism, with lyrics conveying personal real-life experiences or telling a narrative about someone else there\u2019s something emotionally deeper beneath the surface when negative feelings are conveyed in music. I personally find realism in music to be found in the type of music that digs into the subconscious of the listener. <\/p>\n

The subconscious part of our brains is arguably the most personalized feature in human beings that fosters our emotions and how we act. For specific songs and music, in general, to be able to have the power and capability to tap into our subconscious and make one feel a sense of relatability with our emotions is why music is so powerful, and impressive in nature with how a nonhuman force can infiltrate a human\u2019s headspace. Yes, fluffy earworm music like Taylor Swift\u2019s signature \u201cYou Belong With Me\u201d or Katy Perry\u2019s infectious classic \u201cTeenage Dream\u201d that can get stuck in our heads with their vocal talent but lyrically doesn\u2019t contain a sense of raw catharsis. When you think on an introspective level about popular music as a whole you may realize how uncommon the emotion of loneliness is in popular music. In fact, I had to stop listening to the radio in order to delve into artists that were rising amidst the industry but not on a commercialized basis. <\/p>\n

However, as uncommon as the portrayal of loneliness is in mainstream music it was prevalent in some of the most iconic musicians from the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s. These musicians integrated elements of personal solitude, desolation, and sorrow in their music including The Smiths, John Lennon, Elliot Smith, Daniel Johnston, and several more. Essentially, these artists laid out a foundation for artists of the present to follow in how to lyrically convey an emotion as hard as loneliness that is able to resonate and coincide within the hearts of listeners. Seen in songs like \u201cAsleep\u201d by The Smiths and \u201cSome Things Last A Long Time\u201d by Daniel Johnston, these songs create a sense of pause and re-evaluation when one listens to them and opens up an auditory experience of self-reflection on our everyday lives. With Johnston\u2019s soft harmonies repeating \u201cYour picture is still on my wall\u201d accompanied by a slow steady piano ballad, similar to the ballad in \u201cAsleep\u201d with Morrissey tenderly crooning \u201csing me to sleep\u201d, these songs offer something emotionally beyond just a catchy guitar riff and rhyme scheme chorus. These songs offer a sense of self-reflectivity and can cause one to emotionally open to past memories we may be trying to forget or push to the side. <\/p>\n

If you think about the routine you follow in your daily life just to get by, whether it be running through the motions of going to school, or work, and returning back home to sleep and repeat the process all over again, you may realize we may not have much time for a pause in our everyday lives to truly reflect on ourselves as individuals. This act of pausing while listening to a song and opening up one\u2019s brain to our introverted emotions is a powerful form of therapeutic relief and a sense of understanding that we as humans are not alone when it comes to negative connotated feelings of being alone, questioning the purpose of life, and self-loathing. These feelings are frequently overshadowed by music that makes life seem like an untainted, picture perfect, fantasy. It is the reason why we need more artists like The Smiths, Daniel Johnston, Elliott Smith, and John Lennon to create music containing a more diversified emotional spectrum of meaning. Thus, the philosophy of all art deriving from other art is more than applicable when it comes to the musicians of modern day who we may or may not realize sample and draw inspiration from the iconic staple artists of the past. <\/p>\n

Typically, when it comes to classifying who the modern day king of indie music is 28-year old, Mac Demarco comes to mind with his trademark gap tooth smile and fashion taste that has inspired millennials to cuff their pants and invest in a windbreaker from Goodwill. But how has Mac Demarco had such an impact in making a name for himself and his music? What catalyzed Mac Demarco\u2019s name to encompass an entire sound of music and form of fashion? Demarco\u2019s biggest hit, additionally the hit that really distinguished his uniquity as an artist was his 2014, 57 million Spotify streams, song \u201cChamber of Reflection.\u201d As cliche as it sounds, the emotional potency that this track contains is one that will linger iconically for the rest of Demarco\u2019s music career.  What one may not realize though is \u201cChamber of Reflection\u201d is actually a sample from Japanese artist, Shiego Sekito\u2019s famous song from the 70\u2019s \u201cThe Word II.\u201d Sekito\u2019s song instrumentally holds a more optimistic and light-hearted tone to it with the keyboard instrumentation giving off a jazzy feel to it. Whereas, Demarco was able to repurpose Sekito\u2019s instrumental track and slow down the instrumentation and add a heavier focus on the synth to make the song less cheery in tone and give it a darker undertone. Even if you lyrically do not find \u201cChamber of Reflection\u201d to be showstopping considering how the song is made up of only 2 verses and a chorus, with the instrumentation dominating the song, the minimalist usage of lyrics with just Demarco repeating \u201calone again\u201d followed by the simple synth melody gives the song such a strong sense of sadness and loneliness. It\u2019s hard to comprehend how instrumentation can hold the effect of exemplifying human emotion, but \u201cChamber of Reflection\u201d is definitely a track that succeeds with tapping into the hearts of those who have ever felt that they are alone in the world. The personal impact this song has for many listeners of Demarco was proven to me last year when I attended Demarco\u2019s debut show at Radio City Music Hall, and during \u201cChamber of Reflection\u201d the entire venue was encompassed with light emitting from the crowd\u2019s iPhone\u2019s and lighters. <\/p>\n

Additionally, artists like Archy Marshall of King Krule are famously known for their discographies containing a thematic consistency of loneliness in both an upbeat and slow beat context. When you think about being sad or lonely you may not think of upbeat music being the best exemplifier for the emotion, but at a King Krule show the crowd basically moshes to every song which lyrically contains some of the saddest lyrics of all time. Best portrayed in tracks like \u201cBaby Blue\u201d, \u201cCzech One\u201d, \u201cBorder Lines\u201d, and \u201cLonely Blue\u201d, Krule\u2019s discographies are foundational upon his raw gritty vocals and the strong lyrical craftsmanship he puts into his metaphoric lyrics. <\/p>\n

Lastly with a more recent album, Mitski\u2019s latest and critically reviewed, chart-topping album, \u201cBe The Cowboy,\u201d completely disregards romantic cliches, and instead revolves around the psychological perspective of feeling lonely, while acknowledging yearning for a sense of romantic belonging. \u201cBe The Cowboy\u201d is correlative to a form of poetry, with Mitski\u2019s lyrics containing a  heavy usage of allusion and metaphor in telling a narrative throughout the entire album. Her most popular track on the album \u201cNobody\u201d garnering her millions of streams and a spotlight of attention towards her as an artist is essentially one of the most upbeat, catchiest, dance-worthy bops to come out of 2018. In all honesty, \u201cNobody\u201d could compete with \u201cChamber of Reflection\u201d for millennial dominance in being the national anthem of loneliness. Overall, \u201cBe the Cowboy\u201d conveys an impressive and clever form of storytelling throughout the entire album, with Mitski acknowledging feelings of self-deprecation, while simultaneously conveying how much she wants a kiss throughout the entire album. Honestly, the contrast duality Mitski provides when it comes to daydreaming and the harshness of reality gives the album an honest and heartbreaking sense of relatability. <\/p>\n

The artists and bands that dare to take risks beyond what could be considered the recycled usage of bubblegum pop or catchy Zumba music just to make it to the top pop charts to be played on the radio station are the types of artists that deserve more recognition and press coverage. Music that is able to empathically resonate with the listener that makes one feel like it’s okay to feel the way that they feel, even if what they\u2019re feeling is negative transforms music into the form of a comfort mechanism. Sometimes we need to acknowledge and listen to realism in the form of music to be able to move on from the past or to find solace in not feeling like one is alone when clearly the artist lyrically understands how you may feel. Though the iconic figures of the past have set a foundation of real sad boy hour music like The Smiths and Elliot Smith, there is still hope in the representation of artists in the alternative, indie, and DIY music scene of the present. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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