Living in a world where the most watched music video on youtube is Rebecca Black's "Friday," I've become jaded by the bullshit music that is coming out of the radio these days; in my opinion Auto-tune is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to the music industry. Of course the surge of the "underground" indie music community helps to keep my sane when I have my headphones blasting, trying to block out the Ke$has of the world. Every once in a while, I have a resurgence of happiness for the music of the world I live in that lifts my spirits and calms my stressed beyond belief mind.
A Bon Iver youtube video did just that for me today. I have been constantly frazzled and stressed out recently and I thought a dip into the pool of excellent music videos would help calm me down before I tackled a mountain of homework. After watching a couple of videos from my favorite bands, I came upon Bon Iver singing "For Emma" a cappella in the hall of an apartment building. The rawness of the setting and the beauty of the vocals despite not having a studio (or auto-tune) touched me, and I instantly felt myself release my tension as I took in the video. These are moments to live for: this is real music.
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