Here Comes the Sun!

Welcome back to the second weekend blog of May 2023! Before beginning my story, and as usual, I’d like to remind you to check out the other parts of my website including my videos, my other blogs, my shop, and my donation page. As I said in yesterday’s blog, please comment below and tell me if there’s something you’d like me to add to my shop!

Another thing that I mentioned yesterday was that last Friday was the Commencement Ceremony for the people graduating from the University I went to. It brought back memories that I’ve had from school, such as completing a Research Paper for my Music History 3 class. For this blog, I’ll be sharing a memory of when I was trying to accomplish another one of my big projects in Music History 3. Star Lord dancing to different 20th century music!

There were so many big projects I needed to complete for this class, so I decided that in order to survive I needed to do projects relating to what I enjoy. One project required that I show how 20th century music affected other aspects in life such as the other arts or even the medical world. Well, as I said yesterday, I knew that I love film scores in movies. So I decided to brainstorm on how I could turn that into a fun project. 

One day, I decided to look on YouTube for movie scenes without their music. That was when I found a video of Peter Quill/Star Lord dancing to no music. I knew at that moment that it was exactly what I needed for my project. I found recordings of songs we were listening to for the class so that I could line them up with the dancing. I used Google Slides so that I could have individual pages for each song he would dance to and a page after each song explaining how it affected the story AND his dancing. Yup, I found a way to show how 20th century music has affected TWO aspects in life, both Theater and Dancing!

Most of the songs lined up pretty well, so on my last slide I concluded that,

‘20th century music has caused our way of thinking to change. Instead of continuing on with more classical and romantic music as done before, composers tried out new ideas which lead other arts and activities outside of the arts to progress and grow. This project demonstrates that the 20th century music affected both the world of theater and dance. Star Lord/Quill had a backstory to his music. If the producers of the film had used different music, not much would change within the plotline for the story. But the atmosphere would be different because of that change of music. Along with that,  these videos portray how dance in our day has been affected by the evolution of 20th century music. People in Mozart's day would never dream of dancing to music the way Star Lord and the rest of us like to dance. The fact that these songs connect so well with his dancing shows how 20th century music has affected our awesome dance moves. So let’s all keep dancing and enjoy all these great new songs!’

It was fun to watch Star Lord dance to songs such as ‘Maple Leaf Rag’, ‘The Rite of Spring’, ‘Cotton Tail’, ‘The Desert Music’, and some Rachmaninoff. But my favorite song to see him dance to was ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by the Beatles. He looked so adorable jumping into puddles, spinning his jacket around, sliding through the mud, and even as he kicked the weird space rats around. The atmosphere of the story and his dancing changed each time there was a different song playing. But the atmosphere I felt when ‘Here Comes the Sun’ was playing was so peaceful and happy. It was as if the sun really had come and there was no darkness in that cave at all! 

I think that this song just happens to have that kind of atmosphere to it. Since I was doing this class in the spring, it started getting warmer later on in the semester. I would go outside, lay on the grass, and listen to this song whenever I had finished a test and needed to relax and celebrate my success. 

Fast forward to today, it’s summertime again and school is out for my friends. I keep listening to this song and it makes me want to go outside and enjoy the sunshine! Here comes the sun, so let’s go out and enjoy it! (Sorry southern hemisphere friends who just started their winter. I hope that you just HAD a great summer! 🙂)

Thanks for reading till the end! Come back again for next months’ blogs!

Screen recording of part of my project: Here Comes the Sun.

P. S. Sorry that I accidentally called him Jason Quill rather than Peter Quill. I don’t know how that happened, but for some reason I thought his name was Jason at the time! 😆😅