Track: Dust Clears
Artist: Clean Bandit feat. Noonie Bao
Album: New Eyes
Album: New Eyes
Year: 2013
Genre: House / Electronic
A drive along CA-1, with the Pacific on one side and mountains on the other.
An evening enjoying TexMex in Austin overlooking the Colorado River.
A walk on a trail in North Carolina surrounded by tall trees that provide glimpses of Lake Raleigh.
1pm on a weekend, up but not awake, under the blanket.
And this song.
Because music is just not complete in itself. It's that extra context of a situation, a surrounding, lights that invoke the feeling that an artist desired to.
I discovered this song thanks to Akar (go, follow him!), when he posted this track as his current earworm. And I kid you not, it gets really catchy very soon. I love the bass riff on this song, as it supports a fairly generic but pleasing violin-cello combo.
This song challenges what we think the reality is. It throws up a lot of What Ifs, making us do a double take, correct our perceptions and finally make ourselves a lot saner and clear-headed. And I have been at my most introspective during the settings I started off this post with.
From the lyrics, this song seems to vocalize the thought process of a guy picking himself up, getting back on his feet after exiting a serious relationship. Through a woman's voice, and his own, we are told that we sometimes paint a rosy picture of something that is not, just so we are able to live with ourselves and our decisions. And even as that rosy picture starts wilting and decaying, you remember it as the bright and colorful portrait that you were once awe-struck by. The woman reminds the guy that it will be hard to restart his life with a clean slate, but he needs to get real and not hold on to the past. To stop questioning his past.
I am reminded of this exchange between Uncle Iroh & Prince Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) after the latter does something completely out of character, and is now engulfed in an inner war between the good and bad inside him:
A drive along CA-1, with the Pacific on one side and mountains on the other.
An evening enjoying TexMex in Austin overlooking the Colorado River.
A walk on a trail in North Carolina surrounded by tall trees that provide glimpses of Lake Raleigh.
1pm on a weekend, up but not awake, under the blanket.
And this song.
Because music is just not complete in itself. It's that extra context of a situation, a surrounding, lights that invoke the feeling that an artist desired to.
I discovered this song thanks to Akar (go, follow him!), when he posted this track as his current earworm. And I kid you not, it gets really catchy very soon. I love the bass riff on this song, as it supports a fairly generic but pleasing violin-cello combo.
This song challenges what we think the reality is. It throws up a lot of What Ifs, making us do a double take, correct our perceptions and finally make ourselves a lot saner and clear-headed. And I have been at my most introspective during the settings I started off this post with.
From the lyrics, this song seems to vocalize the thought process of a guy picking himself up, getting back on his feet after exiting a serious relationship. Through a woman's voice, and his own, we are told that we sometimes paint a rosy picture of something that is not, just so we are able to live with ourselves and our decisions. And even as that rosy picture starts wilting and decaying, you remember it as the bright and colorful portrait that you were once awe-struck by. The woman reminds the guy that it will be hard to restart his life with a clean slate, but he needs to get real and not hold on to the past. To stop questioning his past.
I am reminded of this exchange between Uncle Iroh & Prince Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) after the latter does something completely out of character, and is now engulfed in an inner war between the good and bad inside him:
Iroh: You should know this is not a natural sickness.
Zuko: Wha... what's happening?
Iroh: Your critical decision, what you did beneath that lake, it was in such conflict with your image of yourself that you are now at war within your own mind and body.
Zuko: What does that mean? [coughing]
Iroh: You are going through a metamorphosis, my nephew. It will not be a pleasant experience. But when you come out of it, you will be the beautiful prince you were always meant to be.
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