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How I feel about this idea of transmission that Ben Ratliff discusses in Chapter 4.

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"The only signs that you are doing it well are two simultaneous connections-to the essence of your own sound and to the consciousness of the listener," Ben Ratliff (Chapter 4).

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"The only signs that you are doing it well are two simultaneous connections-to the essence of your own sound and to the consciousness of the listener," Ben Ratliff (Chapter 4).

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Transmission is a radical form of emotions that goes beyond a generic mood, and these radical emotions are expressed through musicians' songs. I definitely agree with Ratliff's arguments on transmission. Ratliff says that one act of transmission is "Admitting that we don't have the answers or the plan," (Ratliff Chapter 4). I find this very true given that many songs have to do with that specific idea of existentialism and it's transmission because of how deep of an emotion that really is, the realization that we as humans don't know our futures or the answers to life's biggest questions. He later goes on to say "We don't need to know what the words to a song mean... to adduce a spirit of emotion," (Ratliff Chapter 4). I think he really gets to the meaning of transmission by saying that given that if the emotions are truly radical, we should be able to feel them just through how the singer performs them rather than what they truly mean. When listening to "The Morning After" by Frankie Beverly Maze, a song from Ratliff's playlist, we can definitely see transmission in an interesting way. The song's about a man who has just cheated on his wife and he's talking with the woman he had the affair with about their possible future. What's interesting is that he's very calm throughout the entire song, but his calmness makes sense due to the lyric "I know what you're feeling I've been there before," his calmness comes from the fact that he's cheated before and is now trying to convince this woman that it's best to just leave it as a one night stand. Not only is our lead character in this song very calm, but incredibly sleazy given that he's cheated in the past and will certainly continue to do so. After listening to the song you just feel dirty and very disgusted by the story the song tells. My example of transmission is "Miss You" by Foster the People. The song tells the story of a guy who goes crazy with missing a girl, ending with him turning the tables, leaving her in order to make her understand how he felt. This song speaks to me due to it's universal theme of missing someone. There's the repeated lyric throughout of "I really miss you" which we can all relate to. It goes to the radical emotion when the guy leaves the girl so that she can understand how he felt. We've all wanted to take some sort of revenge on someone and that's ultimately what the song is about and why it speaks to us.

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"The Morning After" by Frankie Beverly Maze

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"The Morning After" by Frankie Beverly Maze

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FRANKIE BEVERLY & MAZE * After The Morning After

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THE JAZZY SOUL SINGING of Maze * featuring Frankie Beverly

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Foster The People Song: Miss You Album: Torches 2011 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Sony Music Entertainment

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"We need to attach emotional descriptions to music in order to contain it, fix it, tag it, draw its boundaries, know what use it has, and remember how to find it," Ben Ratliff (Chapter 4).

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"We need to attach emotional descriptions to music in order to contain it, fix it, tag it, draw its boundaries, know what use it has, and remember how to find it," Ben Ratliff (Chapter 4).