Blog 30

For my CD review I chose to listen to Kid Cudi’s album Man on the Moon: The End Of Day. Now for me personally this form of music is very foreign. And on top of that I am definitely not in any way musically inclined or talented at all. I personally have listened to country my whole life and have no idea what a harmony or melody is. I listen to music for how it makes me feel as opposed to trying to understand the technical aspects. The reason I chose this particular album is that it is one that my brother uploaded on to my computer and really wanted me to listen to and I never got a chance, this gave me the opportunity.

                The first thing I noticed is that it wasn’t all cussing and about having sex with women and the songs are slower and you can actually understand the lyrics. Some songs that connected with me personally were “Soundtrack 2 My Life”, “Up, Up, and Away”, and “Man on the Moon”. But my favorite out of the three was “Up, Up, and Away” in particular for the chorus.

I'll be up up and away
up up and away
cuz they gon' judge me anyway so whatever
I'll be up up and away
up up and away
cuz in the end they'll judge me anyway so whatever

I took this as he doesn’t care what people think. That he is going to be himself and it doesn’t matter what they think. I think that this is a fantastic message to be sending out into the public especially teens. High school is hard teenagers can be mean and petty and we all know it. I think that knowing who you are and being above the drama is definitely a good thing to promote. Most of his other lyrics follow in this pattern of promoting being an individual and thinking for yourself.

             Over all I really enjoyed the CD and would recommend it if anyone ever asked me to. It definitely expanded what my view of rap was and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I really liked it.