iMedia: That Year

            This work strikes me so much because of how soothing it is. First of all, the artist Brandi Carlile is extremely talented. The song itself is absolutely beautiful and strikes me as a listener to want to know more about it. I looked up the meaning to it and discovered that she lost a great friend of hers when she was in high school to suicide.
            The music video clearly displays this, but it seems a bit too cliche. She is standing letting life pass her by as the seasons change as she talks about how she felt "that year". It's a cute idea, but it seems like there could have been something else more creative to make into a video for that song.
             Sometimes I think that this needs to be displayed in that type of way in order to transfer the message the artist tried to send. It seems that the music video at least was a bit too predictable which seems to be what a lot is made of in the media today. Even though the video is set up in this way, we can put that aside as the viewer and understand something greater about the actual music. What really struck me was that she found a way to incorporate a past experience of hers into something that caught my attention right when I heard it.
             This piece really matters because it shows how different people display their emotions. It needs to be seen that people can still be creative in today's society. However, some might view it as not being creative because of how much the video matches the song. The way that a person views this can say a lot about that person. There is so much to learn from a simple song or music video, and how you or I view this can say a lot about the type of people we are.