Week 3: Covering "Left Side" by Eloise
"Left Side" by Eloise is a typical broken-heart song. As I was working on this piece, I was reflecting on when my boyfriend and I hit our own rough patch this past spring. It can be hard to admit when you had something really good. Luckily, Mitchell and I didn't have to completely leave each other before we admitted that. It goes against our mental health to simply discard a relationship; we instinctively know that these relationships greatly increase our chance of survival. I think singing is such an emotionally heightened way of articulating these feelings of distress that we actually process them, and we feel heard, physically and metaphorically, when we share these songs with others. This was my first attempt to use Soundtrap's beat-maker, and I would say it was pretty successful in that regard. Replicating a beat takes a different level of attention when listening to music; every genre influenced by African rhythms has subtle variations on how to organize rhythm,...