Fortnite” Dance

6 THE CONCORDIAN theconcordian.org • March 14, 2019 OPINION Calpurnia reminds of warmer times album, Scout, hit streaming platforms June Spotify recommended playlist. “Greyhound” my ego, I have no remorse towards the song. 15, 2018. kicks off with a smooth guitar intro, followed The song is actually pretty rocking, with airy This summer I would ride my bike to work by easy drums and bass in the back. This backup vocals done by Tesler-Mabe, whose every day. The ten minute bike ride to work song is full of angst, but in a way that I think voice and guitar skills liven it up. was pretty lonely without a little bit of music most can relate to. Anderson’s bass hums Finally, this summer my job relocated in my ear. This album reminds me of breezy confidently, making you want to tap your foot me to a cabin in the middle of the woods– in rides on the way to work, the time I flipped along with the beat. This song brings me back quiet Bemidji, Minnesota. On the drive there, my bike in the intersection (I will touch on to biking back and forth from work everyday in true dramatic Carly fashion, I listened to that later), and the day I moved to a cabin in through campus, enjoying the weather, and the album in its entirety. As if the weather the woods in rural Bemidji for a month. Let’s sometimes, but not always, stopping on cam- goddesses knew how anxious and worried dig in. pus to steal a piece of rhubarb from one of I was, rain had started to fall heavily as the Finn Wolfhard’s voice, which I can only the bushes that resides by the Knutson park- only more serious and sad song off the album describe as a cross between raspy and whin- ing lot. echoed throughout my car. “Waves”, the fi- ey (no shade here), is that of a man that has Later in the summer, while biking in a nal and longest song on the album, is sang been weathered and broken by heartache. semi-distracted manner, I flipped myself by Tesler-Mabe, whose voice brings it to a There is a certain sound of seasoned life ex- head-over-handlebars right in the middle of serious and genuinely deeper place. Craig’s BY CARLY ERICKSON perience behind the voice, a great sound at an intersection. I had been listening to “Lou- drums beat knowingly in the background, [email protected] that. Upon doing some research, I found out ie” off of the album, but my sweaty handlebar keeping the song steady and leaving you a bit that Wolfhard was 16 and happened to play hand had accidentally turned the volume up melancholy. Now that the weather is getting especially Mike Wheeler in the popular Netflix series, on my phone all the way. The sudden noise While I only detailed three out of the six unbearable and cold, I find myself reverting Stranger Things. To say I was shocked was increase shocked me. I lost control of my bi- songs on this album, please be sure to lis- back to the music I listened to this summer. an understatement. After putting a face to cycle, and before I knew it, I hit a curb and ten to the album in its entirety. I promise it Calpurnia hit the music scene late last the voice, I could not help but chuckle at the ended up kissing the pavement. I literally is worth it. If you remember my article from spring. In this four piece band that originat- apparent relationship related hardship that ended up right in the middle of the street, last week, I wrote about Weezer’s new album, ed in Vancouver, Canada, Calpurnia’s music poor Wolfhard and the rest of the band had laying there, without any injuries, but still The Teal Album. Weezer released their video hit the indie rock community with a bang. faced in their short 15-17 years on this planet. wishing that sweet death would take me. Af- for their cover of “Take on Me” by A-ha. Cal- The group is comprised of the lead singer Much of the music in this album is upbeat ter laying there for probably way too long, purnia actually stars in the music video that and guitarist, Finn Wolfhard, drummer and and full of tang, which made for easy listen- a PT Cruiser rolled up a moment later, and already has nearly 3 million views. Ah, I love keyboard player, Malcom Craig, Ayla Tesler- ing this past summer. The most popular song honked at me to move. How do you recover it when worlds collide. Mabe, total lady boss and lead guitarist, and of the album, and their most played song after something like that? It was a humbling Jack Anderson on the bass. The band’s debut on Spotify, “Greyhound”, showed up in my experience. Despite the toll that crash took on Let kids do their “Fortnite” dance BY LINDEN STAVE of videos on the internet of kids school kid knows. I don’t even have just to let the other kids know who best. They weren’t. They feel like [email protected] ‘flossing’ and moving their limbs in to explain that better because even they’re dealing with. they were because it was the best various other ways with spasmodic the homeschooled kids know what What does a cool ‘S’ and ‘floss- Disney Channel to you. But it energy. These videos are always ac- I’m talking about. The Cool ‘S’. The ing’ have to do with each other? I wasn’t the best to you because you I’ve never played Fortnite. All companied by the same comment. geometric ‘S’ shape that was fol- won’t pretend they’re directly com- enjoyed it alone, it was the best I know about the game is what I They always say something to the lowed by ‘mile’ to create the word parable, but they serve the same because you enjoyed it as a so- see on Twitter or glimpses on my effect of: “Kids today are so stupid Smile. I was taught how to draw general purpose. Kids use both cial experience with your friends. friend’s TVs. I do know what most (or weird),” as if they forgot how the cool ‘S’ after second grade. Be- of these as a touchstone to their You laughed about each episode, of the Fortnite dances look like, unexplainably stupid and weird we fore the summer of second grade, identity, a way to harmlessly as- talked about them, and saw your- though. Why? I have friends on were. I might as well have brought no sure themselves that they belong self in them. You argued within social media who have ten year On the covers of American ju- notebooks to class at all, because in a social group. And no one really your social group, taking sides on old siblings. Ten year olds dance nior high students’ notebooks, it the only ones that mattered in sec- knows where they came from. We whether That’s So Raven or Han- those Fortnite dances like they’re takes six lines—two parallel rows of ond grade were the ones that had don’t have single sources for either nah Montana was better. You lived are on the clearance rack at Tar- three—to create the starting point at least seven of those big ‘S’s and of these phenomenons, as we don’t them. That knowledge shouldn’t get. Recently, I’ve seen an influx for the one Universal Truth every one huge one right in the middle have sources for a lot of the phe- take anything away from it being nomena that were the social cur- the best Disney Channel to you. rency of growing up. It’s just important to realize there When we compare our own are other best Disney Channels. I childhood to the kids who grew up didn’t have to explain what draw- after or before us, we always forget ing a cool ‘S’ meant socially, be- to compare the social reasons for cause most everyone college-aged doing dumb things like ‘flossing’ in lived it. In the same way, we can’t Ready to math class or drawing geometric ‘S’ really know what it means to dance shapes over your arms in marker. Fortnite dances as a fourth grader. In fact, it might actually be impos- Kids aren’t inherently stupid. Or sible to compare the social aspect maybe they all are, but if they all of doing dumb things as a kid, be- are, that makes none of them stu- cause we didn’t live it. We forget pid. The point is, we were all kids that childhood, as a concept, isn’t once, so we were all stupid. The just an individual experience, it’s a only difference is that now a visual social one. representation of that stupidity is Take the Leap? It’s like saying the shows you readily accessible to anyone that watched on Disney Channel when wants to find it and make fun of it. you were nine years old were the As a trusted local partner, Glen’s here to bridge the gap between your dreams and reality. GlenMortgage Deeton Lender glendeeton.com NMLS #404274 21030.

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