When in Doubt, Just Listen to 'You Say' and Cry Your Heart Out!
A CONTINUATION OF YESTERDAY’S BLOG…
When life gets depressing, I of course turn to music. Most often I’ve ended up listening to You Say by Lauren Daigle. I first heard it just after returning home from my mission, and it made me think of a song that I wrote during my mission that has a similar theme. I haven’t gotten it officially composed and recorded, so whenever I needed a reminder of my worth I would listen to Daigle’s song. No matter what circumstance I’ve been in while listening to it, the words of the song were exactly what I needed to hear. Especially in the first lines of the chorus, You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing, You say I am strong when I think I am weak. I would start crying whenever listening to those words, yet I would listen to the song on repeat until I felt better. I would often listen to it during my time at college, mid semester while I was still on campus waiting for another class to start. I even found a cover of the song that was done in sign language, which helped me when I was frustrated with my beginning ASL class.
This year, the weekend just before Valentines Day, I was attending Church meetings. One of the speakers would say certain phrases that got my attention and stood out to me. “Labels don’t define you.” “Do I ever base my identity on what others say about me, or what my maker thinks of me?” “Heaven sees you. Don’t let any identifier take away that you are a son or daughter of God.” The more I heard phrases like these, the more I started thinking of the song You Say. The first line of the song, I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough, would come to my head when I heard the words “identity”, “define”, and “labels”. The song started playing in my head and I was once again thinking about the Hymn, Jesus, Lover Of My Soul. These two songs in my head were starting to sound so similar to each other that I started wondering if they could be sung together, like the two Marry Poppins lullabies. This was after I had written my simple Ukulele solo and thought that it was going to be my February video. But this song idea came to me while listening to the talk of a church leader! I felt like it was going to be the official video for February. I had found piano accompaniment and even had a video idea in my head!
So here was my plan:
Feb- You Say/Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
March- Sing along to Dr.Roger Hale’s warm up videos
April- Do an analysis of my Star Wars T-Shirt
May- An Orange Sunset at the Beach- A Ukulele Solo
Since the Ukulele solo was about the beach, it made more sense to have it uploaded when it would get warmer. But unfortunately, I once again had technical difficulties… Even though I got A BUNCH of video footage for my Hymn/Daigle song, the videos would freeze up in my editing software! Because of this, I had no idea if my lip syncing was lining up with my audio recording. This was yet another moment when I had to just listen to You Say and cry for a bit…
Eventually I decided to go back to my idea of doing my Ukulele Solo since my video editing software still accepted photos and I found plenty of sunset pictures to use. I felt like I might waste my time and energy if I tried recording a vocal warm up session for the March video and still be unable to line things up while editing. Thankfully, the software still accepted videos that came from my phone(it just doesn’t have as much room on it now), so I was still able to support my choir teacher with a silly video I took in 2020. The software was accepting screen recordings from my computer, so I didn’t have to worry about my April video. The footage of Jesus, Lover Of My Soul/You Say cover still wasn’t working, so I ended up just using my favorite picture of Christ. The song is all about Him anyway.
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