To be honest I am one of
those people who cannot, for the love of all the higher-ups, go on with her
day without music. I just can’t and sometimes I feel incomplete whenever I don’t
have my earphones with me, it belongs to my non-negotiable must-have of every
trip.
Can you imagine a life
without music? I don’t think that’s possible. Even in the film industry silent
films still use sounds to portray and execute the story they wanted to tell,
and probably one of the greatest examples of this kind of film is the award-winning
silent film movie entitled A Quiet Place from Paramount Pictures production.
As cliché as it may
sound, music has really been one of the reasons why we live and connect. It has
been with us ages and had traversed and survived different eras while evolving
its style.
Today, we are blessed
with a lot of talented artists who are brave enough to pursue music that is
rebelling the mainstream. We should be thankful that a lot of platforms are
already at the disposal of a striving musician, producers, and songwriters. In
a snap of their fingers they can upload originals and covers that can reach
millions of people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, and
Soundcloud, those are just the common apps that we use but for sure there are
hundred more of the same kind.
One of my greatest music
discovery is Andy Polk.
Andy Polk is an American
singer/songwriter who currently released his EP entitled 27,84.
The EP contains 8 songs in total which can be classified as electro-pop.
What I love about this
EP is the lyrics together with bop rhythm. To be honest this EP kinda feel
personal and raw that sometimes I feel like I’m trespassing his personal space
but I’m also thankful at the same time because the lyrics speak to me in some
levels.
I love how deep and raw
the lyrics are and how he’s able to lift the mood of the song by making it
upbeat, he was also able to keep the emotions intact using the stress in his
voice.
This EP feels like his
life’s reel, he opened up real big. It’s very personal yet universal. The way
he pours his mind makes you feel like it is your own thoughts. His songs are
creatively written the same as the way we think.
I got caught by Andy
Polk’s EP 27,84 because of how it is poetically written minus the common rhythm
and language most artists use right now. I love how it is upbeat but at the
same time not sounding trying hard.
On Andy Polk’s previous
EP Anyway, you will notice that it’s
more about relationships and the likes. At some point we can say that it is
personal as well but in a different field of being personal. This EP Anyway, feels like more about outside relationships
of a person.
On the other hand, Andy
Polk’s 27,84 EP feels like a journal-
his diary poured and coated with rhythm. This EP is more about his relationship
with his self and how outside relationship affects him. In this EP he talked
about getting lost, the anxiety of getting old, meeting other people, and
getting his heartbroken.
To be honest every song
on Andy Polk’s 27,84 EP is relatable, I love everyone of it.
I relate to I/Keep/getting/l0st..Oo (that's
how the title is spelled and stylized) because there are times where you will
feel defeated, lost, and feel like giving up. This is very us, the millennial, and how we cope with adulthood. The song is like a transition of a floating
thought which came from nowhere. Like the thoughts you have whenever you are
traveling in a bus looking out the window, it’s fleeting and comes fast and goes
away the same way it comes.
‘Wait’ is
a good one as well. The society keeps on telling us that we should wait for our
time, but sometimes we just can’t help but question when it’ll come to us. When
are we going to have our own time? Or is there really a perfect timing for
everything? This song question a lot of things around us, love, trust, belief,
and other stuff.
Twenty
Three is my favorite because
I am nearing my 23rd birthday when I first heard it and I realized
that the lyrics of it are the thoughts that I never knew existed but are
actually inside of my mind. The indecisiveness, anxiety, fear, disappointment,
and hope are all there. And that’s how I feel when I realized I am nearing my
23rd.
I feel like I still have things to see, do,
and say. I am dreading the time of my birthday because I feel like people eyes
me and have questions that I don’t want to answer and I feel like my birthday
should be just a regular day. I don’t want to be alone but I don’t want to be
with people who will only ask questions I’m not ready to hear or answer. That’s
the reason why it is my favorite song from Andy Polk’s 27,84 EP