Rock Reading Tuesdays

Welcome back to Rock Reading Tuesdays everyone and welcome to all new readers!

This week we will be covering a rock band that fuses electronic music, pop, and good old fashioned rock n’ roll. They have coined their own genre labeling their music as Future Punk, this Tuesday I give you the band The Plague and a few of their greatest hits. This band is in my opinion under rated, on YouTube they only have eight thousand subscribers; if you go to their official band page, they have over four million plays on Facebook. Its because of this I believe their name is not as well known as some of the other songs and artists I have written about.

Diving into the music I want to say they are unique while still managing to still feel familiar. It is interesting to hear how they have blended the different techniques and sounds commonly found in electronic music and fused it with heavy rock. Can’t Stop Loving You one of their number one singles shows off their lyricism and their musical ability. It is within this song you will connect with the singer’s soulful exclamation “You Wanna know the truth? I can’t stop loving you”, it is a beautiful love confession that takes the listener back to time of nostalgia. Of first loves and love confessions it is a song that speaks of devotion to that one special person while still having a rock flavor. Check it out below

Our second song by them that I want to put on the spot is their song Best Year Of Your Life and speaks of just that. This song is another great example of their skill of fusing multiple different genres, it speaks of dark pasts and brighter futures. This song is about how this year is where the best year of your life will begin it is just around the corner. It makes sure to push this idea that while life is not going well presently the best year of your life is just around the corner, so keep striving and pushing yourself towards your goals. My favorite line from this song is “Behind you may be darkness, So your future shines as bright as the stars” because all the tough moments that you have faced as a person is apart of your future and it builds you up to your success story. Whether its bullying, housing crisis, food insecurity, education difficulties, it all builds you up into bright star that lights up the galaxies.

Feel free to give it a quick listen down below

There is so much more I want to say on this band but for now I will sign off with this, if you are looking for a band that you can connect with lyrically this is the band for you. If you ever need a pick me up on your darker days this is the band for you, and if you ever feel like no one can ever understand how your feeling give them a listen. They breathed fresh air into my own life when I was looking for a bit of understanding, you will not regret it. That concludes Rock Reading Tuesday next week is readers week, I am not sure what I will cover next week but it will be interesting. See you all next week!

Source https://theplagueofficial.com/epk/

Thomas Benke: Looking Around In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, in the Chapter “Looking Around,” says this: Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another. Otherwise we’d all just be barking away like Pekingese: “Ah! Stuck in the shit! And it’s your fault, you did this …” Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein. But you can’t do that if you’re not respectful. If you look at people and just see sloppy clothes or rich clothes, you’re going to get them wrong. She goes on to speak about empathy for other people and also, as an extension empathy for yourself. So, in a sense as you try to write believable, relatable characters, you will come to forgive people their trespasses—because no one believes they are the villain of their story, so you have to write “bad,” or “evil” characters from a point of view where they rationalize what they are doing in such a way that it is the right or only way they see is possible. By extrapolation, then, if you begin to forgive and withhold judgment from your less-than-desirable, or annoying characters, perhaps you can extend the same courtesy to yourself and forgive your own trespasses and sins. This, for me, starts to enter the realm of “writing as therapy,” and though I am a firm believer in that—I practice it to this very day—I think I would caution anyone who thinks that simply writing through things is going to lead you to a place of light and love. I am not saying it can’t by any means. What I am saying is I have wrote through my thoughts and my problems and my desperation and depression for decades and I still had enough baggage on my shoulders to supply an army platoon with rations for a year. In any case, when thinking about craft, it is very important to step into the shoes of all of your characters, especially those characters that you see as antagonists and villians. I believe there are very few universal maxims in writing but one thing is virtually certain: every character you write is your version of that human being. Confucius said “everywhere I go, there I am,” and that is never more true than when you are writing. So if you are writing a character that is distasteful to you, it might be effective for you to ask yourself why that is the case. I wrote a blog for Obscura last semester titled, “The Puppy Had It Coming.” The gist of the article was to pose a puzzle to writers. How can you write a scene where an adult human kicks a puppy across the room and the reader at least understands why. I am not saying there is any way to justify the action or for the readers to be on the human’s side unless they are sociopaths. I am saying you need let the reader know how dark the place is in the character’s mind that he is capable of doing that.

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