Christopher McArdle Music News, Reviews, and Poetry

Do You Have A Passion For Clickbait? Passion by. AWOLNATION Review Ladies and gentleman the boys in AWOLNATION are back! And this past week they put out a single titled "Passion", off of their upcoming third studio album that is not yet named. Needles to say, all of us who are fans of the group are excited for it. Even if it has only been a year since their latest release. So I can't wait to dive in, breakdown the lyrics, and review this song! So, let's get to it! Verse One: The narrator seems to be speaking to someone who has either very little passion, or has lost their passion. " I found a potion for fixing passion.  Go tell your home-girls, get their reaction.  Out on the ocean for satisfaction.  Go tell your home-girls, what's their reaction?"  As these lyrics begin, they narrow it down to the narrators subject being a female one. This could be a current, former, or future lover. The person has a lack of passion, and the narrator thinks the...

We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat  EP By. Til Death Do We Part Review and "Buttons For Eyes" Reaction Video Welcome to another installation of my music review blog series. This week I am keeping with the YouTuber/Musician theme. This one comes from the duo of Johnie Guilbert (Solo Acoustic. He is also a part of the Collab Channel "Our World Away) , and Jake Bateman aka. "Your Brand New Obsession" (Solo Alternative). Together they formed a side project known as "Til Death Do We Part" . A sort of Pop-punk/Easy-core and Electro/Alternative two piece group. The two Just released their debut EP titled "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" last Friday, October thirteenth, along with the second music video for the song "Buttons For Eyes" . This following their only single from the EP titled "Curiosity Kills"  a track that I did not review but I will now regret that as it gave a lot of insight in to what the EP was goi...

What Would You Do Of You Found A Dollar In The Woods? Dollar In The Woods By. Keemstar (DramaAlert) Review "Yo! I'm about to burn down this house are you f****** ready? Are you ready? I'm going to spill f****** bars like diarrhea! (oh s***) I'm about to nuke the whole city like North Korea! Are you ready?" Well... Hello Keemstar, you created a song. Cool. But why did you create the song? What was the purpose for the lyrics? What do you want the listeners to take away from your song? If the message you are trying to get across is that you are just like every other YouTuber who decides to make a "song" because you wanted to, or "Because I can", then you have succeeded. If your goal was to create a song full of the same nonsense, self promotion, and empty, meaningless lyrics as half of the rap songs on the market today? Then again, you have succeeded. If you wanted to brag about your Yeezys, and ho...

YouTube's Demon(etizing) Problem And How It Effects It's Creators As you can tell this is not going to be a normal music review blog. In this issue I want to talk about a problem with the YouTube platform and how it goes about the monetizing and demonetizing the videos that are uploaded to the platform. Now, you might be thinking "What does monetizing  have to do with your music review blog and YouTube channel"? And to that I say that it means everything. As I will explain here in this brief article, through an example.  Now before I get into this example I need to give you some context about the ad-pocalypse that the YouTube platform went through. There is a lot of speculation about who or what started the ad-pocalypse in the YouTube community. But the truth is that this was coming along well before any of the recent events. Ad companies have for some time now been looking at  how their ads are placed on creators content, and what type of content the ads g...

The Villain Speaks Out Loud! Out Loud by. Gabbie Hanna and Villain by. Social Repose Hello, and welcome to another edition of my music review blog. This weeks issue will be a double header. I will be covering two songs, one by a YouTuber, the other one is by a YouTuber/Musician. I will make two videos, one per song. Both will be linked below. Also, as a bonus for the week I will be writing a second blog post and recording a third video talking about an issue that hits YouTubers, one of which is mentioned in this blog, with a hard wall to climb and be successful as a YouTuber. So read the two reviews down below, check out the videos linked below as well as all of my social links. Out Loud by. Gabbie Hanna The first one that I want to cover comes from the YouTuber that shocked us all. Gabbie Hanna aka. TheGabbieShow on YouTube. She has sung before on her YouTube channel, here or there, and we knew she could sing. But I never thought that she would release a professional re...

Waiting For Morning To Come by.  Being As An Ocean WOW! It has been two months since my last post, and man has it   has been a hectic couple of months that included the internet being out at my house, moving to a new house, a hurricane hitting home, taking a road-trip to Lubbock and back, and finally getting the internet back at my house. Now that all is settled I can get back into a routine of writing my music review blogs. Only this time I will only be doing one a week, along with a vlog of the review. In the new video format I will also be including a music news segment. Here I will go over the week in music and any news that has happened. Now let's get down to the review. The album I will be reviewing this week is the latest release from the Post-Hardcore band Being As An Ocean , from Alpine, California. The album is titled "Waiting For Morning To Come" and comes on the heels of their buyout of their contract with their previous record label, Equal Vis...

Future Friends EP by. Superfruit Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, and welcome to this weeks one and only music review blog. Sorry that I only have this one but I was involved in some volunteer stuff at my church this week, working with the youth group doing several service projects and having fun. So if you want to see some of that please go check out the video for this blog post. I will have some of my footage from that playing before the music review. But never the less, let's get in to the review for this blog. The review this week will be about the EP named "Future Friends", and the track titled "Imaginary Parties".  This is a seven track EP by the music duo Mitch Grassi, and Scott Hoying. These two are members of the A Capella group known as "Pentatonix" . Together they created their YouTube channel named "Superfruit, (SUP3RFRUIT)"  back in 2013 and have amassed just over 2.4 million subscribers in the four...