Creative Piece #4: Mood Music

Mood Music

This playlist coincides with my first creative writing piece entitled "Fashion Show."

1) I picked The Radiance to start off this playlist because it's only a minute long and it's Oppenehimer "the father of the atom bomb" talking about the first time they saw the atom bomb go off during testing.

2) Survivor's Guilt is the second track because it opens with dialogue from the movie Catch-22 and a man says "America can't be destroyed" and I like this because in my book America is thoroughly destroyed and it makes someone think about how we are not immortal and we will not last forever. 

These two songs act as a Prequel or calm before the storm before the bomb goes off.

3) Burn is originally an Ellie Goulding song but Chris Kamrada (There For Tomorrow) does a drum cover of it that adds some "umph" to the song. I use this as the third track because it coincides with the quality Brightness in my first Creative Writing piece. It is a loud and fast song that's flashy and encompasses how I want Brightness to be displayed.

4) The Grand Finale is really where the fun begins in the track. This song is about the world ending so it fit perfectly. At this point Heat would be performing and he needs loud dramatic music. It basically encompasses all of the fear that happens when a bomb goes off.

5) Sail is the aftermath of the bomb. Everything is still in chaos so the song is loud and heavy, but it doesn't hold the same terror The Grand Finale does. It sets the post apocalyptic mood that will be around for a long time.

6) Kennedy Curse is when Pain makes her entrance. It's a raw song with a guitar lick that practically cries. It shows how all of the survivors of the bomb would be feeling. The physical and emotional pain they are enduring and the sadness and hopelessness that comes along with it.

7) Flux and Flow is when things get heavy again music wise. But it holds a little hope. There is still some sadness and pain, but it doesn't leave a person completely depressed. It explains that things will get better some day even if things are bad now. It would start playing during Pain's performance but the end would bleed into Recovery's performance.

8) The playlist ends with Burn The Night Away, which is a quiet acoustic song. Recovery has made her entrance and everyone has seen her. It's quiet and not so sad and just a simple song. The calm and peacefulness of it shows the beginning of better times.

Things aren't completely mended by the end of the playlist. There is still a long way to go. But the hysteria held in The Grand Finale and Sail have died down and the hope appearing in Flux and Flow and continuing through Burn The Night Away promises for happier songs and brighter days.