The Relatable Loneliness of Noah Slee’s “Stayed”
Last week I wrote about an artist who used minimal lyrics to convey monumental feelings. “Stayed” is another song that expresses depth of feeling with concise lyrics, ultimately allowing the listener to inject their own meaning into the experience. In this case, the experience is isolation; something that can be comforting, but can also have […]
The Subtle Beauty of Feiler’s “Ruse”
When it comes to art, it’s harder to be quiet than loud. No matter what medium you’re working with: it’s harder to write a soft, character-driven scene than a huge action set piece, harder to dance a solo versus dancing with a huge group behind you. It’s especially hard with music: coordinating with a bunch […]
Death Comes For Us All: Why “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” Sticks With You
Lots of songs have spawned great movie moments. The “Tiny Dancer” singalong in Almost Famous, The Breakfast Club’s epic ending set to “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”, Trainspotting’s iconic “Lust For Life” getaway. These scenes would be nothing without the songs that soundtrack them, but the songs are forever tied to those movies as a […]
The Underrated Flow of “Whatever It Takes”
This is not a review of an Ed Sheeran song. But allow me to gush about him for a second to make a point. Ed Sheeran’s amazing. He’s got all the talent in the world, he’s a genius song writer, and he worked his way up through hard work and determination. I could go on […]
Hopping a Train Down to “Mexico” with Jordan Ziskin
Time, a perpetual state of movement and the measurement of life. Measurements made up of the people we love, the experiences we create and the paths we choose to follow. Jordan Ziskin’s “Mexico” encompasses this perplexity. It’s simplistic in its essence, yet complex in its dimensions. The story begins with a man traveling across the […]
Hippo Campus’s Beautiful Lyricism on “Passenger”
Scaled back. Spacious. Soft and flirty. Hippo Campus captures a sound and story that takes the modern romance song into the future. It’s futuristic, and not just for the band’s branch of the alternative rock genre. “Passenger” is a departure from the successful, fanciful, hipster sound Hippo Campus and their contemporaries are known for. Even […]
Martha Hill – The Story Of “Spiders”
Everyone has nightmares. Everyone has those nights where they lie awake staring at the ceiling, trying as hard as they can not to fall asleep. Everyone has those moments where the house is so quiet and the room is so dark, they can’t be completely sure they’re awake at all. Everyone has the corners of […]
Two Story Melody is One of Feedspot’s Top 75 Songwriting Blogs
So this is pretty cool – the team at Feedspot reached out this week to let me know that Two Story Melody was named one of their top 75 songwriting blogs. Full disclosure: we’re not the number one songwriting blog on the list. We are also not in the top ten. Or the top thirty. […]
The Dark Love Story of teddybear’s “Not in a Car!”
Sometimes you hear a song that’s meant for the songwriter. Personal and experimental, it doesn’t care about fitting into mainstream constructs. It exists on its own plane. “Not in a car!” is one of those songs. Not very often do you have that total stopped-in-your-tracks moment when you think, “What am I listening to?” And […]
Victors – The Story Of “Slow Down”
You remember high-school right? The first real party, the first real relationship, the first real break-up. The summer that seemed to stretch on forever, the fights that seemed world-ending with people whose names you no longer remember, the parties that were so fun at the time but now you try hard to forget. No matter […]
