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Bong Mines Entertainment (15 KP) rated Becky and the Birds by Becky and the Birds in Music

Jun 7, 2019

Becky and the Birds (Thea Gustafsson) is a talented R&B/Soul singer-producer out of Örebro, Sweden. Not too long ago, she released her wonderful self-titled debut EP.

But creating the 7-track project had obstacles. The 21-year-old vocalist experienced dark emotions and even battled depression.

Ultimately, she overcame her frustrations and obstacles and stitched together her EP. She perfumed it with her unique genre-spanning blend of lush sounds.

Becky’s desire to have everything in an arrangement can be attributed to her time spent at the prestigious Musikmakarna Songwriters Academy of Sweden, the place that kickstarted the careers of LÉON and Skott.

Even though the Becky didn’t fit into the school’s pop agenda, she learned a lot there. Later, she interned at an EDM/House label but didn’t fit in there either.

Not knowing where to turn, she went through a dark period. But there was light at the end of the tunnel, and she walked towards it. Once in the sunlight, she created her self-titled album.

BECKY

The EP begins with a voice recording of a person named Becky, a 26-year-old Capricorn. The individual has a muffled, male-sounding voice, lives alone in an apartment, and has two friends, one a bird.

MALAYSIA

Becky, the singer, sings a beautiful song over a dreamy electronic composition perfumed with soul and passion.

The singer yearns to go to Malaysia. To see the birds in the sky and feed the ones on the ground. Also, she visions herself sitting, watching them fly.

The song highlights the meaning behind Gustafsson’s stage name. Apparently, she has a deep connection with birds.

DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME INTRO

The intro begins with a poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson, entitled, “I Want to Die While You Love Me”, recited by Maya Angelou.

DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME

Becky, inspired by the legendary poem, takes the tempo up a couple of notches. Also, she packages the song with dreamy vocals and crisp production.

CONCEPT STORE

The song incorporates jazzy pianos with bass and elements of hip-hop. Also, Becky’s lush vocals soar through the track alongside samples she plucked straight out of nature.

HOLDING ON

The song is one of Becky’s acclaimed singles. It features lush electronics, a splash of trip-hop, and elements of ‘90s R&B music.

MY MAN

Becky ends the 7-track EP on a smooth note. She wants us to know that her man is holding her strong, mentality and physically.

CONCLUSION

Becky and the Birds’ self-titled EP is short and sweet. Also, it leaves a lasting impression, prompting listeners to want to hear more.

https://www.bongminesentertainment.com/becky-and-the-birds-ep/

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David McK (3767 KP) rated 300 in Books

Jan 28, 2019

300

Frank Miller | 1999

6.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

As with most comics/graphic novels-into-movies I've read, I'll admit that I saw the movie (quite a few years back) before reading this.

Essentially a comic-book-brought-to-screen, the movie iteself was incredibly violent (but enjoyable), with ridiculous amoutns of blood and body parts splattered across the screen, and with more nudity than I was expecting alongside the whole sub-plot of King Leonidas wife getting the Spartans to march.

An entire sub-plot that is not in the source material at all.

I also have to say that the violence in this - while still there - is actually toned down quite a bit from what I was expecting, with several of the panels virtually lifted from the pages and put on to the screen.

The story, for anyone who doesn't already know, is centred around King Leonidas' view of Thermopylae - or 'The Hot Gates' - , a narrow pass defended by the 300 Spartans of the title (plus miscellaneous other Greeks, although you'd be forgive for thinking they weren't there the way this, and the legend, is told!) to the death, and which was immortalised by the poet Simodides as follows on an epigram placed on theri burial mound:

"Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

(see: http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1458/go-tell-the-spartans.html)