Imogen Heap

Solitary Confinement Walking through the gentle fog down the empty street that led from her home to school, Adair subconsciously reached into her backpack and unwound her headphones, as she did every morning on her walks to school. Her thumb clicked the button on the side of her phone to turn the volume of her music up to extra high. It didn't matter so much what the music playing was, as long as there was something coming out of her headphones, she was happy. Frankly, she didn't even like music that much. A few weeks back, Adair experimented with listening to podcasts, with the idea that she could at least learn something rather than just blasting mediocre music all the time. But in the natural pauses between the speakers' phrases and sentences, the deafening sound of her neighborhood's 7:00 am silence always penetrated into her ears. Subsequently, she decided it was best to just stick with music. Approaching the school's cafeteria, the sound of conversation and laughter energized her. She walked over to “the chess table,” as it was called by the kids that didn't play chess. It was widely known that no one sat there unless they “had nothing better to do.” These new friends of hers, who she had started hanging out with in an attempt to learn this strategy game, looked up and smiled warmly in greeting. She found all of them really nice and enjoyed spending time with them, but the only thing they ever talked about was chess, when they did talk at all that is.…

The music put with this piece was called Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap. All the girls wore white oversized T-shirts for this piece and they also used a prop with this performance. The props they used were blind folds to go with the lyrics “hide and seek” and how it says, “where are we?” meaning they were lost and perhaps trying to hide from the past. The theme to this piece was more mysterious and it told a story making it easier to understand lyrics and interpret them. I liked how they mimicked…

country darling to pop queen has been drastic and if one were to find original interviews with Swift they may be startled by the unbelievable change in persona; almost to the point where it should be disregarded as a byproduct of maturity, but instead makes one question who really is Taylor Swift? Regardless, this portion of Swift’s career is commonly overlooked and instead it is often contested whether or not Swift actually writes her own music; even fellow singer/songwriter Imogen Heap…

from $11.8 to $7.1 in 2012.(Covert 1). It’s well-known that digital sales now dominate the industry. A matter of fact, by 2007, 819 million digital singles were sold, with physical CDs only selling 500 million. This is a significant drop from 2000’s peaked CD sales of 943 million (Covert 1). Digital sales, while inexpensive and convenient, eventually take a toll on profits to labels and artists. Usually, the profit-loss from music sales is made up when an artist tours, but recently that’s not…