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[Laughter]
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[Laughter]
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I need I need and I need and I need so
much I drown and all the things that I
crave that I can’t put a name to like
their remains piled here with no records
no idea of the faint glimmers of want in
my ribcage and I need my own two arms
can’t hold all the things that I shoved
to the side when no one’s looking hoping
praying that I’ll feel real in the
morning because it’s been so long since
I touched another human being this could
all just be a dream between alarms I
begged myself to become a doctor do no
harm
I can’t tell if I’d feel more at peace
or quietly at war in the dark but there
will still be a person sighs to scar
when I wake up aching still still I need
[Music]
[Music]
you think my name is Jimmy LaBelle I
wrote that poem I think my freshman year
of college really the inspiration for it
was I feel like college is a time when
people they have so much that they’re
thinking about that they’re trying to
figure out about themselves that they
can’t really pinpoint all the things
that they’re feeling in the moment
sometimes and that’s exactly where I was
at around 3:00 a.m. on a random freshman
night I don’t know if you all can relate
to that I wanted to talk to you about
about music today it isn’t an uncommon
experience for us to hear a song that
sounds exactly like another song no
matter how different they are in style
or how far apart they are in years
sometimes we hear songs that simply
sound the same and with the
accessibility of YouTube
the popularity of mashups when you swish
two songs together I feel like we’ve
reached a point where all of those
things are so much more visible now in a
real-time I mean it’s not a new
phenomenon variations and paraphrasing
that creates similar sounding songs
musicians in Europe in the church they
had melodies from the liturgy that
sounded exactly like the local songs of
the common people I know that church
musicians especially black church
musicians you can hear all the harmonies
and chord progressions that they used on
a regular basis in popular music still
to this day for instance Little Richard
artists like Ray Charles they took the
sounds that they heard in the pews and
turn them into radio hits
there’s corporations
[Music]
this is a very popular chord progression
and depending on how old you are or what
songs you enjoy listening to it could
just about the anything the most popular
song I’m sure we’ve Muslims have heard
that this chord progression is used in
is just the two of us by Bill Withers
it’s a pretty popular melody
[Music]
you hear didn’t think how could it
possibly be another song but the the
style is very so much different artists
depending on how fast or slow they play
it what genre they prefer to make music
and can turn this same chord progression
into just about anything I like it
by DeBarge I don’t know if anyone in
here prefers eighties music but I know
for sure that Janet Jackson she used it
if you’re a fan of Janet Jackson I get
so lonely
Black Jupiter by Sheree know is a more
recent addition my boo by ghost town
DJ’s also very popular in the 90s so
many songs and what makes it so
beautiful what makes this one chord
progression so interesting is that
[Music]
different artists using it to suit their
own purposes it could reach several
different audiences it can be played at
several different tempos give a
different feeling every time you listen
to it and a different song that
universality how many other ways can we
look at something that looks just like
something else and bridge a gap
especially in today’s climate it’s
important that we realize all the things
that we enjoy the things that we step
into personally in our day-to-day lives
they’re far more Universal than we think
it could just be the exact same thing
with different window dressing when you
really get down to it and that’s the
beauty of music I think
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Music]
I need I need and I need and I need so
much I drown and all the things that I
crave that I can’t put a name to like
their remains piled here with no records
no idea of the faint glimmers of want in
my ribcage and I need my own two arms
can’t hold all the things that I shoved
to the side when no one’s looking hoping
praying that I’ll feel real in the
morning because it’s been so long since
I touched another human being this could
all just be a dream between alarms I
begged myself to become a doctor do no
harm
I can’t tell if I’d feel more at peace
or quietly at war in the dark but there
will still be a person sighs to scar
when I wake up aching still still I need
[Music]
[Music]
you think my name is Jimmy LaBelle I
wrote that poem I think my freshman year
of college really the inspiration for it
was I feel like college is a time when
people they have so much that they’re
thinking about that they’re trying to
figure out about themselves that they
can’t really pinpoint all the things
that they’re feeling in the moment
sometimes and that’s exactly where I was
at around 3:00 a.m. on a random freshman
night I don’t know if you all can relate
to that I wanted to talk to you about
about music today it isn’t an uncommon
experience for us to hear a song that
sounds exactly like another song no
matter how different they are in style
or how far apart they are in years
sometimes we hear songs that simply
sound the same and with the
accessibility of YouTube
the popularity of mashups when you swish
two songs together I feel like we’ve
reached a point where all of those
things are so much more visible now in a
real-time I mean it’s not a new
phenomenon variations and paraphrasing
that creates similar sounding songs
musicians in Europe in the church they
had melodies from the liturgy that
sounded exactly like the local songs of
the common people I know that church
musicians especially black church
musicians you can hear all the harmonies
and chord progressions that they used on
a regular basis in popular music still
to this day for instance Little Richard
artists like Ray Charles they took the
sounds that they heard in the pews and
turn them into radio hits
there’s corporations
[Music]
this is a very popular chord progression
and depending on how old you are or what
songs you enjoy listening to it could
just about the anything the most popular
song I’m sure we’ve Muslims have heard
that this chord progression is used in
is just the two of us by Bill Withers
it’s a pretty popular melody
[Music]
you hear didn’t think how could it
possibly be another song but the the
style is very so much different artists
depending on how fast or slow they play
it what genre they prefer to make music
and can turn this same chord progression
into just about anything I like it
by DeBarge I don’t know if anyone in
here prefers eighties music but I know
for sure that Janet Jackson she used it
if you’re a fan of Janet Jackson I get
so lonely
Black Jupiter by Sheree know is a more
recent addition my boo by ghost town
DJ’s also very popular in the 90s so
many songs and what makes it so
beautiful what makes this one chord
progression so interesting is that
[Music]
different artists using it to suit their
own purposes it could reach several
different audiences it can be played at
several different tempos give a
different feeling every time you listen
to it and a different song that
universality how many other ways can we
look at something that looks just like
something else and bridge a gap
especially in today’s climate it’s
important that we realize all the things
that we enjoy the things that we step
into personally in our day-to-day lives
they’re far more Universal than we think
it could just be the exact same thing
with different window dressing when you
really get down to it and that’s the
beauty of music I think
[Music]
[Applause]
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