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Passion, A La Mid-90's Power Anthem
This video is the Behind the Scenes footage for the newest Marianas Trench video "Beside You". But let's go ahead and look past that for a moment and focus on two seriously intense seconds, ready? Go ahead and cue up at 0:33. Got it? Great... now keep watching, and really listen carefully at the 0:50 - 0:52 mark.
Did you catch that? Did you go back and listen to those two glorious seconds of bullshit AWESOME again? And again... and again... and again? Yeah. Me too.
What we have here, ladies, gents, and unidentified, is Josh Ramsay, the singer/guitar/pianist of Marianas Trench unleashing his incredibly awesome upper register to the tune of Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" with such musical fury that one can only wonder if the Canadian native is indeed channeling the awesome power of Cochrane himself... Perhaps all Canadians can channel Tom Cochrane, or perhaps Ramsay is in fact, bullshit awesome.
Now here's the thing, it took me approximately a week to actually see the rest of the video, because every time I tried to watch it, I got stuck at 0:52, and had to go back to those two seconds.
And here's where I start to sound like a massive creeper, but I swear I'll explain! The first time I heard that happen, my heart literally thrilled, and I couldn't breathe for a few seconds. Okay, truth be told, it happens every single time I watch it (which is seriously... a lot). Now, let's get one thing straight, Josh Ramsay singing two seconds of "Life is a Highway" is not the only musical moment that gets my blood seriously pumping, it is, however, definitely among fine company.
Here's the thing, I have a very strong attachment to music. Any music! All music, it doesn't matter what genre, I can be moved to tears by Polka or Celine, I can go into a fit of rage via Hardcore or Tchaikovsky, and don't even get me started on the legitimate roller-coaster of feelings involved with listening to Guster's record "Keep It Together".
The thing is, with singing, that you can hear every bit of passion for music in someone's voice. If you listen carefully, you can hear inspiration and passion and pure emotion in a vocalist's voice, and if it's not there... I can't listen to it. I need to listen to music by people who are just as passionate about sound and melody and rhythm and harmony as I am, and that's what attracts me so desperately to those fleeting two seconds of this video.
I know some of you are rolling your eyes and calling me a sap, or a drama queen, and that's all right. I am both of those things, but what happens from 0:50 - 0:52 is chilling in all the good ways. "But Caity, that's not passion, that's a dude trying to push himself into his upper register. That's kind of a high note for a dude..." Wrong. While yes, that is a pretty intense note to hit for a dude (and some chicks) that's not what's happening. I've heard Ramsay hit higher than that with ease. No, laced underneath there is musical passion, a drive to do the best possible, even goofing around on set singing Tom Cochrane...and you can't fake that.
So why have I spent the better part of a half hour playing those two seconds and writing this seemingly pointless blog? I don't know. Maybe it's because it's 10:30 in the morning, and I'm bedridden with overnight sickness. Maybe it's to convince myself that it's okay to get super emotional over music. Maybe to justify how much time I've actually spent on YouTube listening to it, I don't know. I do know, however, that what Josh Ramsay displays in a seemingly goofy few seconds of an early 90's power-anthem is pure and utter passion. (And talent, because it really isn't easy to hit that note for most dudes. Props to you, Ramsay.)
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Did you catch that? Did you go back and listen to those two glorious seconds of bullshit AWESOME again? And again... and again... and again? Yeah. Me too.
What we have here, ladies, gents, and unidentified, is Josh Ramsay, the singer/guitar/pianist of Marianas Trench unleashing his incredibly awesome upper register to the tune of Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" with such musical fury that one can only wonder if the Canadian native is indeed channeling the awesome power of Cochrane himself... Perhaps all Canadians can channel Tom Cochrane, or perhaps Ramsay is in fact, bullshit awesome.
Now here's the thing, it took me approximately a week to actually see the rest of the video, because every time I tried to watch it, I got stuck at 0:52, and had to go back to those two seconds.
And here's where I start to sound like a massive creeper, but I swear I'll explain! The first time I heard that happen, my heart literally thrilled, and I couldn't breathe for a few seconds. Okay, truth be told, it happens every single time I watch it (which is seriously... a lot). Now, let's get one thing straight, Josh Ramsay singing two seconds of "Life is a Highway" is not the only musical moment that gets my blood seriously pumping, it is, however, definitely among fine company.
Here's the thing, I have a very strong attachment to music. Any music! All music, it doesn't matter what genre, I can be moved to tears by Polka or Celine, I can go into a fit of rage via Hardcore or Tchaikovsky, and don't even get me started on the legitimate roller-coaster of feelings involved with listening to Guster's record "Keep It Together".
The thing is, with singing, that you can hear every bit of passion for music in someone's voice. If you listen carefully, you can hear inspiration and passion and pure emotion in a vocalist's voice, and if it's not there... I can't listen to it. I need to listen to music by people who are just as passionate about sound and melody and rhythm and harmony as I am, and that's what attracts me so desperately to those fleeting two seconds of this video.
I know some of you are rolling your eyes and calling me a sap, or a drama queen, and that's all right. I am both of those things, but what happens from 0:50 - 0:52 is chilling in all the good ways. "But Caity, that's not passion, that's a dude trying to push himself into his upper register. That's kind of a high note for a dude..." Wrong. While yes, that is a pretty intense note to hit for a dude (and some chicks) that's not what's happening. I've heard Ramsay hit higher than that with ease. No, laced underneath there is musical passion, a drive to do the best possible, even goofing around on set singing Tom Cochrane...and you can't fake that.
So why have I spent the better part of a half hour playing those two seconds and writing this seemingly pointless blog? I don't know. Maybe it's because it's 10:30 in the morning, and I'm bedridden with overnight sickness. Maybe it's to convince myself that it's okay to get super emotional over music. Maybe to justify how much time I've actually spent on YouTube listening to it, I don't know. I do know, however, that what Josh Ramsay displays in a seemingly goofy few seconds of an early 90's power-anthem is pure and utter passion. (And talent, because it really isn't easy to hit that note for most dudes. Props to you, Ramsay.)
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