I will be the first to admit, I'm not as "hip" and into the music scene as I used to be when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. BUTTTT I still do listen to music. Maybe not with the same fervor that I did when I was younger, but I'm still hip, I'm still groovin'. (At least I like to TRY to comfort myself with that.
These days I find myself listening to my iPod quite a bit. Sometimes to keep my movie scripts alive in my heart I'll listen to the movie soundtrack arrangement I made for them.
The radio goes on from time to time as well and I TRY to listen to the new stuff coming out. The thing with that is, I like most of the new music coming out these days is AWEFUL. Shawn Mendez SUCKS! And there's a lot of other very forgettable groups out there. The only relatively new artist that I LOVE is Bruno Mars. I really like his Michael Jackson-esque, easy going style. It just works.
Okay but it keeping with the crux of this post here's a couple song that play over-and-over again, because I love these songs::
I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas:
Justification: O-kay, so the VIDEO for this is kinda slutty especially at the beginning with Fergie's antics... First time I saw this video was JUST before I put in this post. BUT I LOVE the song. Especially the last chorus. I remember back a few years ago CBS was using the tag of this song to promote their shows in 2011/2012? Something like that. It wasn't until about a year ago that I listened to this song and fell in love with it. It's just a pent-up emotional release song. The song is WAYYY better than this POOR music video. This is E.C. Henry's cut loose song of choice.
Love Runs Out by OneRepublic:
Justification: I really like this song, not the video so much. If I ever write "The Commune III" this song will probably be the capstone, signature song near the end when things come to a head for "The Commune's" lead protagonist and his deeply troubled love interest.
Nothin' At All by Heart:
Justification: This is the song at the end of my soundtrack for the rom/com with a sport's bend, "Hometown Professional Football" that I wrote several years ago. Whenever I listen to this song it brings me to a place of my lead heroine in the story reaching the end of her character arc, and being happy with where she's at now with respect to where she was at the beginning of the story. Heart's video does NOT capture the essence of this song very well at all. This like the video for "I Gotta Feeling" is pretty bad, BUT the song is GREAT! Interestingly enough, when Heart was in their heyday in the mid 1980s I wasn't a fan of theirs. I like harder rock back then. But LATER when I started writing movie scripts I took a second listen to them, and now find that I like MOST of Heart's music. Moral of the story: you tastes change over time, some music is more palatable, retroactively with the passage of time.
Alrighty then, so there they are: three songs that get you INSIDE THE BRAIN OF E.C. HENRY!
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