October 6, 2025 - All About Music

 People keep asking me what kind of music I usually listen to, and I find that question one of the hardest ones to answer. I had strict parents, so I wasn't allowed to listen to music that my parent's didn't provide. So for pretty much 18 years, I didn't listen to songs much outside of what my family, and sometimes my friends, let me. 

My childhood songs mostly consist of Fairuz and Arabic songs from a popular song channel for children called Toyor Al-Janah (old cast was better, nowadays their songs are a flop). 

Toyor Al Jannah Logo. They now have so many variations of this for their different channels

And even after I became an adult, listening to music hasn't become much of a habit, until I came to Japan and started listening to songs from Japanese music projects or anime. For English, most of the songs I know come from animated shows that I like, or from animatics (basically a storyboard with a soundtrack) made by creators on YouTube.

One of the songs that I got obsessed with is called Curses by The Crane Wives. The artist didn't really explain the meaning of the songs, but a lot of the lyrics suggest it's written from the pov of someone who's enigmatic, or hiding something dark from their loved ones.

I really love this part of the song, specially when the singer sings the second "When this house don't feel like home" verse, which then leads up to the second chorus.

This house is my name like an elegy
Oh my, oh my
Echoing where my ghosts all used to be
Oh my, oh my
There's still cobwebs in the corners
And the backyard's full of bones
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When this house don't feel like home?
When this house don't feel like home?

One thing I love about listening to songs is that I sometimes imagine them as theme songs for my original characters. The charactera in my head that I assigned this song for are a woman and her husband, who both had high ambitions for power and strength, but went too far and ended up with a curse. So now in the song she's speaking to her husband, who has now an indestructive metal body There was a whole backstory for that but you know it'll get long so why not go and listen to the song instead?

If you turn on the captions, you can see that the artist provided captions for those who have trouble listening, which I found really sweet.

Oh and by the way, this is the animatic that I found the song from. Don't ask me what Last Life means, I only know of this video because of the YouTube algorithm haha. 

I also tried making my own animatic once. One animatic I made exists somewhere on YouTube floating around, though I don't plan on telling anyone about it haha.