Black Veil Brides Critique

Writing is something that has never been easy for me. For most of my life I have tried to avoid it if I can, but of course I can't avoid stuff like school forever. So for the most part all of my writing has been forced upon me. Even with the help of teachers and some helpful hints from the internet, it never got easier. But obviously I have written before and like anyone else who has written before, there must have been some sort of influence. My main influences were the books I have read, my teachers who have helped me throughout the years, my experience, and strangely enough my music.

I have come a very long way; the four years since I started have only progressed with intensity and involvement with music. I know the next years of my life will only be more intense and more involved with music, and I hope that it can become a career one day. Music has allowed me to express myself during my happy moments, my teenage angst, my depression, my heartbreaks, and it has always gotten stronger, and it carries me with it. I cannot wait to see what music I’m creating in five, ten, or fifteen years. One day, I’ll look back to the songs I have finished in my younger days, and I will be reminded of my high school years, and what I was going through during those times, because, to me, music is

I first started writing around when I was in the third grade. I loved to read fiction and I wanted to write it too. That year I had a story about my hair published in an Akron newspaper. Getting that story published made me feel really excited about something and I wanted to continue to do it forever. Eventually, we had to start to learn to write in cursive and I hated it so, I slowed down on writing during school and at home. I would still get good grades on reports and writing assignments but I never enjoyed it as much. I could never find the desire to write but when I did write I was never happy with the outcome.

I wrote The Outsiders when I was sixteen years old. Actually/ I began it when I was fifteen, as a short story about a boy who was beaten up on his way home from the movies.

In the reading this week, I learned more about how songwriters develop their songs in their own way. I learned about Dolly Parton, Isaac Hayes, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, and David Bowie. Starting with Dolly Parton, she is very dedicated to her work; she works really hard for what she wants in her life. When she was growing up, she said that most of her family was very interested in music and songwriting. I thought this was interesting because she learned from her family, and developed skills from them. When she writes, she explains that creating songs happens in many different ways. For example, she might come up with an idea, write it down and later come back to it. Most of her pieces are made from experiences or other people who she knows. Like Jolene, Daddy Come and Get Me and Down from the Dover. She says that when you write it should be free, which reminds the advice of the book “Free Play.”

The lead singer and song writer of alternative rock band Blue October, Justin Furstenfeld explains on a suicide prevention video that he has “battled with bipolar disorder, psychiatric tendencies as well as anxiety issues throughout much of his life and admits he self-harmed during his teenage years and has reoccurring suicidal thoughts” (Freunde fürs Leben, 2010). Many songs that he wrote are about his mental illness and problems he faced because of it.

“The Pink Dress” is a short story that tells us about a young boy, Sam, and his mother. Sam loves the color pink and is in love with wearing dresses. So much that he doesn’t care what others think about the pink dress that he decides to wear to school one day. They taught their son how to stick up for himself and be kind in the way he goes about doing it. This story is relatable to many people old and young.

It has been about 2-3 years since I decided to write and produce my own music. I have played guitar since I was 8 years old, played in church for about 16 years and been in band from 6th grade through my first year of college. In all those years I have learned many other instruments to the point that I feel like a “jack of all trades and a master of none”. Through all this time I have

I started writing and making up stories in the age of 4 or 5, however,

My earliest memories of writing would be always writing stories and personal journals. I love to explain and explore my personal points of views when it comes to writing. The memory that I keep of writing would be when I was younger I would write in my journal very often. It made a huge impact on me emotionally because it helped me keep my mind and emotions intact. For me, writing in personal journals helped me to have a good connection with my emotions and being able to express myself and my pure and truest thoughts. This was a positive and negative impact on me because I wrote about anything and everything. I wrote about all

I think that the most influenced I have been in my life is by the music I hear on the radio I used to be into punk and metal and the rest of the music was just crap

I am going to make a fool of myself in front of Milli and Mr. Parks. I cannot sing. I cannot do this. What was I thinking getting myself into this mess? I asked him if I could do it somewhere not in front of all the people, and he went back to the makeup/ dressing room area. Feeling left out at the moment, Milli asked if I minded that she come, and I told her that I did not mind. With sweat pooling, heart racing, and legs shaking, I managed to pick out a song, “When I was Your Man” by Bruno Mars. It was a fairly easy choice because it was my favorite song at the time. With the volume on the lowest setting, I placed the phone up to my ears, closed my eyes, and hoped for the best. Afterwards, not much was said, and it made me very nervous. I kept thinking to myself, Was it good? Was it bad? Was it horrible? Did I just embarrass myself horribly? Oh

In my 7th grade year, the barn became such a popular hangout place that a couple kids broke in just to sit around and have a good time, but the owners of the barn found out and after that having a show at the barn became really difficult, it went from shows every two weeks to about 2-3 a year. I was heartbroken, I did not know what to do for fun anymore. But then it hit me, I always said I wanted to do what the kids were doing on stage, so I did, I always played guitar from when i was 10, but then I decided to take it more seriously now so that I could be on stage and kids would be singing my songs, and that’s just what I did. My freshman year I spent a lot of time writing an album called “Are You Tired” with a band called Floodwaters. And early sophomore year we released it, the feedback was incredible. It started off with hundreds of listens and a few downloads, then grew to 1000’s and 10’s of thousands and hundreds of downloads online, and we were all very

This learning period I achieved my goal of beginning my own ukulele song. My ukulele song, called “Buy Me Happiness," this ukulele song is about how expensive art supplies are. Less than one-fourth of the song is completed, so the piece is a work in progress. The concept I studied this learning period is when writing your own song, try not to pressure yourself into being creative because most of the time it will not work. Instead of limiting your time, leave a large window of time to be creative and to play around with chords and notes. Furthermore, write down every thing, every chord and lyric that comes to mind, even though you might not use every idea you had, it is useful to look at the direct you were going in. In addition, you might want

Just because a band wears dark and scary clothes, have somewhat depressing lyrics, does not mean that they are a cult or involved with anything satanic. Emo bands are like angels; they help one another feel safe and comfortable. There may be some wannabe emo bands, but not all of them are fake. Black Veils Brides is a good example for the guardian angel. Black Veil Brides is a popular heavy metal/rock band who claim to be something as The Ultimate Outcasts, due to their eccentric looks and rough childhoods from bullying for being different and unique. They have helped so many in choosing the right path, lending them an ear, or gave them something to live for. When they can, fans use the opportunity to show or tell BVB of how they have been living their lives. The majority of the fan base have “artwork” on their arms, legs, hips, etc. That has suddenly decreased. Fans say that they used to cut themselves but stopped because Black Veils Brides’ music has saved them. BVB will always be there for their fans. Andy Biersack, also known as Andy Sixx, has written a song called Saviors because he wanted to give something for his fans known as the BVB Army as a thank you for always being there for him and the band. Throughout the song, he constantly reminds his fans that, even though he’s only human, he’s going to try and do everything he can to help them through their lives. When Andy sings, “...I will take this burden on,