Me and comfort food.
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“Stuff We Did”
SO. SAD.
The music from “Up” is on my list of things guaranteed to make me cry like a little girl.
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Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ For Orchestra by Walt Ribeiro
“Fun Fun Fun Fun”
Regardless of what people say about this track, I actually love it, and so its the one I wanted to arrange this week.
It’s on par with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Why? Well, I constantly say that music isn’t about eighth notes and harmonic minor scales. It’s purpose is to create emotion. It doesn’t matter what that emotion is – it could be happy, sad, fear, uncertainty, anger, calmness, or in this case – hilariousness.
To me, it’s a successful piece of music because it got people talking, it got people emotional. Even Simon Cowell would agree. Released on February 11, 2011 by Ark Music Factory, the song sat dormant for a month until The Daily What and then Tosh.O wrote up about it on March 14, 2011, and gave it life upon the internet.
The piece is incredibly happy in it’s emotion, and I wanted to capture that with the violins, so I had them play triumphantly in the beginning and in the ending. The most difficult to arrange was the rap by Pato Patrice Wilson. I had this same problem with my Rage Against The Machine piece because unpitched vocals commonly seen in rap is incredibly difficult to arrange for pitched instruments, but I’m thrilled with how the rap was performed by the xylophone.
I love the honestly of this piece, and really wanted to transcend the feeling of “fun fun fun fun”. For all the people who are hating on Rebecca, I say learn to love them, and besides, lovers whisper
If there is anything, ANYTHING, that can make Rebecca Black’s Friday sound like a masterpiece….it’s this. I kid you not.
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I will awkwardly dance if I have to.
You’ve helped me from the start. You’ve always been there. You always help me from being stupid for too long.
I may be another person you put ahead of yourself, but know I won’t take you for granted and I promise I’ll be there for you too. Take a moment to realize what you did and how it affected me. I’m sorry I wasn’t there before for you.
I feel like/know I haven’t been a good friend in a while - I was always somewhere else. I’m sorry.
I haven’t spent much time with you in a while either. I’m sorry.
(I now claim you as..) Duck Buddy, Tiger Buddy, and Totoro Buddy. Thank you so much. I know I haven’t showed it, but you’re all my best friends. You all make a part of my heart (cheesy). I swear, when I’m okay, I’m going to make you guys happy too. I don’t deserve you guys. I felt like I had to deal with this alone, but you guys never left me. I might have even pushed you guys away, but you still came back to me. I might be a walking accident zone, but you never gave up on me. I probably brought you guys down with me, but you still cared. I made comforting 100x harder to do, but you still comforted me. I haven’t smiled in what felt like a year, and you all were able to make me laugh. You all pulled me out of falling into depression. I just can’t believe I have you guys as friends. I’m just wondering how in the world you can put up with me. After being sad from the same reason over and over, you guys never left. I love you guys so much. Please, we can never separate. Never drift. Never leave. Always have each other. If a day ever comes the three of you are sad, I pinky promise to do my best to put smiles on your faces. Understand how grateful I am to have you guys, and I’ll be there when you need me, any time of the day.
