Song Review - "Up All Night" by Blink-182

It has been about eight years since blink-182 released a studio album and we got our first glimpse into the new project with "Up All Night". A song about the personal trials and inner demons with the intention of keeping "them" up all night, it can quite possibility be a reflection of what has happened between now and the last album in 2003. According to an e-mail from Mark Hoppus to MTV News, the song was actually one of the first songs that they created when they got back together in 2009. The core of the song was still there, but it has developed over time as new ideas kept coming to the surface. If they wanted to release a single, they could have done it when the tour. However, you can tell that they took their time and wanted to make things right.

You can't really compare the song to "All The Small Things" or "The Rock Show", however this song reminds me of "Feeling This". It has that mature sound that made them grow as a band. The side projects of "Angels & Airwaves", "Boxcar Racer", and "+44" proved to be helpful to blink-182 and its core members. For the blink-182 fan, it was amazing and awesome to hear some new music from them. As a fan myself, I was really excited for midnight on July 15th to hear the new song. As a follower of Mark Hoppus on Twitter when he tweeted that the new record was coming out in September and the single was being released at midnight, it brought me back to my high school days in the summer of 2001. I remember sitting the back of my friend Chris's corvette blasting "The Rock Show" cause I was one of the first people to get the song on a CD (Remember those?). It brought me back to my blink-182 concert, where they co-headlined with Green Day and got overshadowed. Even with that, I was gonna defend blink-182 over Green Day any day of the week. Anyways blink-182 is on a similar path that Green Day was in the late 1990s, and "Up All Night" is step towards their eventual destination.

Now as a HUGE blink-182 fan when I first heard "Up All Night", I thought it was alright. It didn't really impress me, and some fans really do feel the same way. It felt like a huge disappointment waiting all this time and you give us this? However, the more I listened to it, the more I started to really dissect it and enjoy the song. It's not a great song, but it's not a bad song. It's alright, so i'm really down the middle with this cause it reminds me of "Feeling This". I'm hoping that the album really produce some awesome songs and proves that blink-182 is back and back with a vengeance.

Song Meaning - "Just A Dream" by Nelly

So, I have been meaning to type up this blog post for a long time and I finally have the time and my thoughts together to figure out what to say to better express what I want to say.  Hopefully when someone reads this, they understand what's going on and respect true emotion. 

This song does hit home to me cause when I first heard the song, I just got of a "relationship", if you can call it that, that had the possibilities of turning into something more.  Ever since my college sweetheart dumps within a month of me proposing to her, I have not been looking cause I was and still enjoying my life. However, living life alone is not cutting it anymore.  I want to have somebody awesome in my life, however the bitterness of rejection has taken over my game, which I have none to begin with.

Anyways back to the song meaning, I was just coming of the summer fling and I didn't want to truly accept that things were truly over.  I kept myself busy to not think about her with filming conventions & talking with guests.  I even took a trip to Walt Disney World with some friends to keep my mind off of her.  Then, I did a blog post about the top 20 sad love songs to which that song was part of the countdown and it got me thinking.  The song hits the chord on what I was feeling at the time, which still lingers today.

The story is about a successful relationship, which turns out to be only a dream when the guy is brought down from cloud nine to reality.  You dream about the family life, marriage, and finding true love, then suddenly the dream is over and you are all alone.  The reality of that situation is that it sucks.  No matter how much you joke about it or admit that you don't think it, the truth is there will be a point that you will think about it.

The song is a great song and it conveys a powerful emotion that captures people, which I think it was probably one of Nelly's greatest hits ever and the one that people like the most.  This definitely hits home to me and its tough to listen to without thinking about her and thinking about could have been.  Just to let everyone know, I'm sure the majority of the "Song Meaning" blog posts will be about someone that I was with in the past.

There have been times that I have tried to open up some people or tried to vlog about it.  In the end, I've been discouraged and lazy about opening up cause some of my friends can't really relate to it nor do they really care.  So, I know that there are people out who say I don't deserve someone awesome in my life, or that I deserve to be alone, or even correct my grammar cause they wanna show me up and feel good about themselves.  They have a right to, I put out my opinion and my story and I'm subject to abuse like that cause I put myself out there.   However in the end, music is what's important to me and the connection that i have with it.  It's more important to me than an opinion of someone who doesn't know me.

This has been "Song Meaning", and I'm gonna have a music rage post soon.