Pompeii

Hello everyone! I am the daughter of the blogger who writes this and you know what? I am taking over for a day. Now don't freak out, everything will return back to normal...eventually. So today my dad woke up with the song Pompeii, by my favorite band, Bastille in his head. Hearing this I insisted that I write this post. For those of you who don't know Bastille consists of four members; Dan Smith, Chris Wood, William Farquarson and Kyle Simmons.

• Dan Smith, 14 July 1986 (age 27) – lead vocals, keyboards, percussion (floor toms), producer, songwriter
• Kyle Simmons, 5 February 1988 (age 26) – keyboards, percussion, bass, backing vocals, synthesizers
• William Farquarson, 22 September 1983 (age 30) – bass, keyboards, guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Chris "Woody" Wood, 6 July 1985 (age 28) – drums, backing vocal

Many of you have probably heard this song on the radio over, and over, and over again. Many of you have probably not realized who the artist that created this masterpiece is, well eternal shame on all of you, in fact; DIS-HONER ON YOU, DIS-HONOR ON YOUR COW, DIS-HONOR ON YOUR SENSE IN MUSIC! Anyways the music video is a very serious, dramatic, clip. I personally think that the song is really for you to determine the meaning personally, I do know that it is meant to tie into our modern world and its technology, I could go on and on but I'm just going to post the video now. 

I'm just going to let that sit in for a while........................................................thought about it enough yet? No? Well too bad, I am moving on. This song personally is not my favorite from the Bad Blood album that Bastille released in 2013. Some of my favorites are Icarus, the Weight of Living (parts one and two), Flaws, and *gasp* Bad Blood. A friend of mine had the opportunity to meet the band at their one of their concerts. Her poster for the concert has hence named us Bastille fans, who know of the poster, Bastallions. (The band looks quite majestic with their heads on horses if I do say so myself) 

I do really like this song though. The lyrics easily refer to the story of Pompeii. Black clouds over the hills, walls tumblin down. It is just one intense form of poetry with an amazing musical background in sync to it as well. A wall actually did fall down during the eruption and the ashen clouds. 

So I honestly don't know what my dad keeps going on about in these posts but they last forever so I am just going to keep talking and call it good. Bastille's style reminds me slightly of Imagine Dragons, which is probably why I absolutely LOVE both of the bands. One of their songs has been very popular on the radio as well. On Top of the World is a very good song but like all good songs get replayed until you can't bear to hear the song anymore. I am a little sad to admit that I am starting to feel that way about Pompeii. Don't get me wrong I ADORE the song I just need to stop hearing it on the radio, give it a few days, then listen to it and fall in love with it once again. Well I am done talking. I hope I didn't annoy the heck out of you readers. Signing off, I'm Zoe Newman, and you have been watching Disney Channel!