I recently was submitted into a hospital when my appendix started to rupture and after the surgery i was placed in a room with 3 other men. There was this one golden aged man who had his legs wrapped and his skin was the only thing holding his bones together. Early in the morning his wife came at about 4am to come and see to him, check on him and all that. He had been in the hospital for more than 8 months and what struck me was the way that they looked at each other. Was love so genuine, the kind where we don't find in many couples who have to take care of a sick loved one. Only probably in movies.
It started to remind me of this song as requested by Jensen Wong on love after well.. life.
Hence the whole black out fit, rose and dark video. This video is raw and is taken of 3 takes which i tried out a Bon Iver chorus thing where it would sound like more of a lot of people were singing the chorus at once deliberately leaving it a little bit out of sync. I captured the sound through camera and in 3 takes hence the 3 different scenes throughout the video which my hair and head was out of place.
As of its Earth hour later this evening, I will follow you into the dark kinda fit in some weird way. Er.. don't forget to turn off your lights! :P
When some of my viewers tell me to do mainstream songs to build a bigger fan base, to get more views.
When my reply to it is just as simple as 'It's not that i don't want to, i only do the songs that inspire me. If a mainstream song inspires me, i'll do it. I wanna inspire people and the views i get don't really matter.' but then again i need people to actually watch my videos or listen to my songs to get inspired in the first place which people keep telling me.
I remember posting a video on new years of one of the songs that are closest to my heart 'Souvenirs by Switchfoot'. It didn't get many comments and the dislike bar grew faster than the like in the first few hours but there was one comment that got my attention.
After noticing recently, being honest was what mattered all along. But yes, i am going to take this users request and mix it with mine.
The song which i covered has no fancy recording EQ and its plain and raw but most importantly, its honest and delicate.
It falls under the same category of the few songs that I've always kept close and cherished with my heart. Just like Dare you to move, Souvenirs, Always by Switchfoot and Lego House and Give me love by Ed Sheeran, this song also holds a very deep meaning to me.
I've asked around what people think when they hear this song and why do they cry to sleep with their earphones plugged into this song at 4 in the morning. The most common one among all was of course, a break up song. To me at first it did sound like it as well, a post break up song and the words do actually kind of fit.
But as the Isaac sang the chorus i began to feel like i was the one he was talking to. What was most curious and i thought would be draggy when i saw the score that said it had three verses was how the verses showed stages of a break up, kindasorta like the strangers again or alone forever but based on the exact moment of a break up yet, it just didn't feel right.
It was as if Isaac wanted to save me yet he did not know how to. It felt like as if i was a troubled teenager and he just wanted to help me get trough. I did want to search the meaning of the song but that was the beauty of songs, They can mean anything you want it to. To me, the song was about broken lives trying to be mend by the singer but slowly developed into me yes losing a girl but not so much as a break up. Nothing could hurt more i imagine than loosing someone so close to you, if whether or not a family member or friend. For me, it was my best friend.
Until today this song speaks to me in how i couldn't save that relationship i had. I decided on doing this video after realizing that it is not mainstream, yet it is. And that it inspires me. So it fits the entire category of what the user in the comment section above wanted. It's not something to prove, but just an honest song which i hope you all will love just as much.
I do make really weird faces and move around a lot in this video, just like my cover of skinny love by Bon Iver. I decided that as far and honest as the song is, i must be as honest and not hold back the funny facial expressions that i hide in everyone of my videos and when i perform live. Keeping in mind that i'm nowhere near John Mayer and that making the expressions he does turns the hearts of girls upside down, I'm just singing every ounce of what this song means to me.
and don't ask if i was crying.
So i hope you guys enjoy my latest cover and that you will Share it all over facebook, Tweet, blog about it, Like, Favorite, and do subscribe as well.
So i decided that i would like to share my insights about the videos i cover and the things that inspire me. Trying to share the deeper meanings through words on this blog.
Lets hope it all goes well and this will be a good thing for me to do. Wish me luck people and hope you enjoy the little little things i post up.
So here is one of my latest collaborations with Ms. Gwen Laraine who i've been dying to do a cover with since the first time i heard her sing. We decided on Bob Dylan's masterpiece "Make you feel my love" recently brought back into the mainstream world by Adele and Ed Sheeran.
