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Another element I talked about in my essay that Ratliff mentioned was slowness. Ratliff says "Slowness in music invites reciprocity: it makes the listener want to fill the spaces with his own content, whether that be associations or movement or emotional response" and when the slowness of the 2 songs I mentioned by joji play, it lets the listener stop and think about what is going on in the music.

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With this songs by Joji, I said that it really exemplifies the three elements I mentioned, slowness, repetition, and sadness. It's not my favorite song on the album but still incredible in my opinion.

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Will he by Joji is my favorite song on the album, it's a slow moving song with just a heartbreaking sound to it. And the music video for it is really intense and kind of weird, but I recommend starting off the album with Will he.

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One of the elements I chose from "Every song ever" was sadness. This album was full of songs about heartbreak and sadness and I thought it was the perfect element for this album in particular. I referenced the quote "through silence and dissonant long tones, or through agitation and mania; through closed systems of harmony or phrasing, or through unnervingly open and dark ones. We hear it through voices and instruments" and said that Ratliff says the sadness is heard through the sound of the instruments and what the musician is saying.

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The album that I did for my essay was called in tongues by Joji Miller. It's an album about the sadness of heartbreak and what he went through while experiencing heartbreak. It came out on November 3rd of 2017 and is his first serious album. In the past Joji has released other music under the name Pink Guy that was less serious and more about being funny. He decided to switch over to a more serious type of music when he started releasing some singles but was too afraid to release a full album until finally he decided to make in tongues. I have a lot of positive things to say about this album as a whole and is one of my favorite's at the time being, until I probably over play it because it's all I listen to.

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