Kili's Blog

 St. Louis Blues  The song "St. Louis Blues" is sung by Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong.  I knew about Louis Armstrong before I knew about Louis Armstrong.  His song "What a Wonderful World" was in Toy Story and I didn't know it was him singing.   This song is very slow and has a blues feel to it.  It isn't upbeat or danceable, or if anything it would be a slow dance.  I feel like the target audience would be older people.  I feel like older people listen to slower songs, and younger people like faster pace, more upbeat song type.   I thought that Louis Armstrong's voice would appear in this song, but it doesn't.  Instead, the music in the background gives the song a sad feeling.  It makes me think of a grumpy old man.  The way the sad music and the tone of voice being used in the song interact with each other well because the two matches.  The sad tone of voice and the sad tone of music go together well to giv...

 After the Ball  After the ball is a song that makes me think of the ball scene in cinderella with the guy with the monocle.  After listening to this song a couple of times, I realized that there were parts in the song where the woman would stop singing and talk about the story.  While this part of the song is going on, the waltz instrumental music is still going on in the background for you to follow.  So, she changes up the tone, but the background sounds of the music stay the same.   I feel too, as though the music and the lyrics interact with each other pretty well because of how the style matches.  The main lyric "After the Ball" and the instrumental aspect match.  This is because I can imagine people dancing to this song at an actual ball.   This song is about an uncle telling his niece why he never got married because he saw his woman kissing another man at the ball.  Then years later, the woman died, and he found out th...

Hi, My Name is Kilinahe Neuman, I am a freshman at SUU, and I just moved here from Hawaii.   My favorite artist is Julie and the Phantoms.  I love all genres of music but recently I have been into the songs from this show.