Like a True Natures Child

You may be asking yourself right now, why would Autumn be reminding us to recycle on a music blog??? That is a good question and the answer is for inspiration. My teacher recently sent all of us outside running around with our phones and told us to take inspirational sensory detail pictures for 15 minutes, normally no big deal except it was raining. So as I'm running around I came up with a theme which was to be green. The backstory and thought process of that was the fact that we had been in a drought so the rain was much welcomed, I got pictures of bikes that people had ridden to school and then the full parking lot of cars that created who knows how many CO2 emissions, the fact there was one prius, and then the above picture. I know you are all waiting to find out how this ties into music. Music has to be about something, therefore inspired by something and of course love is the most well known but what about the love of our planet? Well there was a time when music was inspired by that and we know it as the hippie era. The highlight of this era was 1967 to 1973 and it continued after that a bit but that was mostly when hippies came to be. Personally I like this era it teahces a lot about caring for our planet and caring for each other. So I went through and developed a playlist of 'hippie' songs and artists and I think its pretty groovy. Feel free to check it out.
1 John Lennon- Imagine
2 Santana- evil ways
3 The Byrds- Mr.Tambourine man
4 Jimi Hendrix- Purple Haze
5 Crosby Still and Nash-woodstock
6 The doors- Hello I Love You
7 Bob Marley- One love
8 Grateful Dead - Truckin  and  Sugar Magnolia
9 Pink Floyd - Time  and  Breathe
10 Beatles - Lucy in the sky with diamonds
11 Bob Dylan - like a rolling stone
12 Led Zeppelin - stairway to heaven
13 Janice Joplin - Bobby McGee
Peace out guys. I hope you enjoy my hippie playlist and remember to reduce, reuse, and recycle!

Someone(s) I think Is cool

So this post is all about a group I think is super cool but in particular my favorite video by them. I encourage you all to check out this video and others by them! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExW80sXsHs
The video is called "Evolution of music" and its by one of my favorite A Capella groups, Pentatonix. For those of you who do not know, A Capella is basically just music without instrument accompaniment, so in A Capella songs it is just completely singing, making instrument noises or both (Ever watch the movie pitch perfect?). This video travels all the way back to 11th century and goes up into the 2010's. Throughout the video you experience 4 minutes of some of the best songs in all those era's. It is amazing to see how far music has come and how it got there. What most people do not realize is that pop music does not refer to all the bubblegum music playing right now but it refers to music that is popular in any generation and bubblegum just so happens to be it right now (That means you could technically call Mozart pop music) The songs are all pretty recognizable (unless you live under a rock in which case how did you make it to my blog?) They have lots of other covers of different songs but this is my favorite. I honestly love A Capella and wish that the groups got more cred and fame because to be in a group you HAVE to be a good singer. One thing just in particular about this video is if you watch closely you can see the color and quality of the video change as you progress through history. So check out this video, check out more of their songs and you should definitely subscribe, I did. Here's a list of all the songs:
11th century-
Salve Regina
1600s-
Canon in D - Pachelbel
1800s-
Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven
1910s-
Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly
1920s-
Old Man River - Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
1930s-
Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway
1940s-
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrew Sisters
1950s-
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
1960s-
Stand By Me - Ben E King
Barbara Ann - Beach Boys
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
Respect - Aretha Franklin
1970s-
ABC - Jackson 5
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1980s-
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Thriller - Michael Jackson
1990s-
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Say My Name - Destiny's Child
I Want It That Way - The Backstreet Boys
2000s
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Drop it Like Its Hot - Snoop Dogg
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Hips Don't Lie - Shakira
Single Ladies - Beyoncé
I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feelin - Black Eyed Peas
2010s-
Baby - Justin Bieber
We Found Love - Rihanna
Some Nights - Fun.
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
Gangnam Style - Psy
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
 *I am in no way affiliated or claiming to be with Pentatonix*