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Music Notes

by Amethyst Agape Angel

Rated: 13+ · Book · Music · #2313403

A blog about music from my unique perspective (also a spot for some poetry I’ve written)

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Ms. TerrifyingTuber

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

1 Like

QPdoll

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

1 Like

♥HOOves♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

1 Like

Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

1 Like

QPdoll

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

1 Like

♥HOOves♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

1 Like

♥HOOves♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

1 Like

QPdoll

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

1 Like

tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

1 Like

QPdoll

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

1 Like

February 11, 2025 at 9:14am

#1083695

Room For You, by OneRepublic

My eleventh track for "The Soundtrack of Your Life"

is another one from OneRepublic's 2024 album Artificial Paradise.

Room For You is a deep cut, one which I didn't think especially highly of when it came out. In fact, I don't think I listened to it more than once last summer after the initial analysis loop. It just didn't seem to connect with me.

Being a deep cut, I was quite surprised to run into it playing on a gas station sound system less than a week ago. As I listened I found myself unable to remember what I was hearing beyond the initial recognition, and I felt strange, because it's not a bad song at all, and in fact I'd already chosen it as one of the tracks for this blog series! It's highly unusual for me to not bond with a OneRepublic song.

Sound:
Room For You has fairly typical OneRepublic production, with a hint of the postmodern "cyberspace" sonic patterns which drift through the album. A little bit of piano synth, a guitar strum, backing vocals, and a somewhat rappy verse delivery which swings through different rhythms in an engaging way.

Ryan Tedder often explains how, as he's producing, he likes to vary the rhythmic pattern of a song and add new elements from one verse to the next, to avoid repetition and keep the listeners engaged. This feature of his work comes out especially clearly here, where the song doesn't really follow a standard "verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus" pattern.

Theme:
My analysis of the theme versus the sound blurs together, because the whole thing, from the lyrics to Ryan's voice, reminds me of early aughts country-pop, like Rascal Flatts or maybe Keith Urban. There's something down-home and folksy about the message here, as Ryan delves into a "she narrative," which he doesn't often do. (On a side note, neither Ryan Tedder nor Dan Reynolds have ever used the word "girl" in their songwriting.)

For that matter, Room For You has more lyrics packed into it than almost any other track on Artificial Paradise. When AP dropped, some people complained about how brief each song is, most of them barely cracking three minutes or less. As I discussed in "Serotonin"

last year, Ryan Tedder seems to have "burned his (lyrical) bridges" to achieve this level of brevity.

Significance:
Though last summer I wrote enough analysis about Room For You, it appears to have mostly gone in one ear and out the other. I'm glad to be able to revisit such a simple feel-good song. And I guess that's all I have to say about it. Enjoy

Words: 442.

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