Review: Just a Dream (cover)

Just a Dream (Nelly), performed by Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie with Kurt Schneider on piano/keyboard/drums/I'm not even sure what else.

This video.... I don't even know where to start.  It's lovely in so many ways.  Let's start off with the instrumentals, because it's ridiculous how often they're ignored.

Kurt Schneider is an amazing instrumentalist.  I can't even name just one instrument, because he plays them all. While I haven't heard the original version of this song yet (heh heh...), the introduction to this one sucked me in right away.  I love piano openings.  Case closed.  But the video itself is awesome--the shots of each individual forming one giant picture reminds the viewer that a song is made of many parts.  There is a vocalist (in this case, two vocalists), and so many different sets of instrumentation going on at once that I ended up watching most of this video with my mouth open.  Loved it, loved it, and LOVED IT.

The vocals were surprisingly good.  For YouTubers, these people are insanely talented.  Honestly, for the human population in general, these people are insanely talented.

However, I felt that Sam's vocals could have had a little more "pop" to them.  While he's undeniably an amazing singer, I found myself starting to take his sound for granted and focusing more on Christina's voice.  By the way, I love Christina's voice.  I did feel that this song fell a little outside of her optimal range, but she did an excellent job.

I loved this song.  Have I said that already?

So, my URL is "living a soundtrack."

I'm going to explain that.  Because honestly, this doesn't seem like a blog that would go with that URL.  :P So, originally, I intended this to be a music blog.  However, circumstances changed (read: I can't make up my mind ever), and this basically turned into the place where I ramble about things that people would normally not listen to but might bother to read. Hence my blog description.  To be quite accurate, I wanted to use either my old blog name (Life is Beautiful) or my current blog name as a URL.  They weren't available.  I decided to check those URLs out today.  They yielded a blog that hasn't been updated in eight years (eight years!  I could be using that URL!), and then, for sealedwithawish..... "The blog you are looking for does not exist."  WHAT.  NO.  *evil soundtrack of doom*  It didn't exist earlier.  Whyyy. :O

Um.  Anyways.....

I'll try living up to my URL every once in a while.  I'm not quite sure how anymore.  Maybe I'll start posting some YouTube videos again.  Or maybe I'll try something a little more exciting... :)

People change.

Obviously.

But people change more than you might realize, and more quickly than you might believe. Take a look at who you are now. Think about who you might be in a few years. There's the hopes of what you could become--prettier, smarter, cooler. And then there's the vague whispers of what you hope you never become--uglier. Less confident. Less of a person than who you are now. Change happens. Change is unavoidable, inescapable. Change is for the better, they all say. But is it?

Imagine meeting your best friend four years from today. One of you has changed--perhaps both of you have changed. But you greet them with a smile and they quietly observe the floor. Like you weren't even there, like you had never been there. Never been their best friend. Never shared laughs or memories or Popsicles on a hot day.

You sigh and leave, because what else can you do? You think to yourself, Wow, they really changed.. But that little nagging voice in the back of your mind makes you wonder if they weren't the one who changed at all--if it is you who is the different one.

falling.

that feeling of not being good enough. falling short of expectations that you've got everything.

when the world's spinning and your heart'a breaking just because perfection is a place just a little farther than you can see.

and you wish you were skinnier or prettier or smarter or just somebody that you could like. because honestly, if someone said they were in love with you, you would not believe them.

just because perfection's a place where people cannot go.

I wish.

I wish that we never made mistakes.  That we, as a human race, were infallible.  If I had my way, there'd be no heartache, no fighting, no wishing you could go back in time to fix your mistakes.  There would be no mistakes, no misjudgements, no regrets.  No regrets.  Isn't that what we all want?  To be able to look back on life and say that we lived without regrets?  That we held back nothing in the pursuit of happiness.

But if there were no mistakes then there would never be reconciliation.  That beautiful, beautiful feeling when you reunite with someone you love.  That moment after you say "I'm sorry," and they say, "I forgive you."  Life would be so much easier without worrying about whether you did the right thing, but life is so much more beautiful in its imperfection.  For out of that imperfection come such sweet moments of resolution, when you right the wrongs you've done.  

I suppose my way would be much easier.

But I suppose the way life is now is the best way.  Although it hurts so much more than perfection, it can be so much more beautiful.  After the rain, the sun always comes out.