Tournament: ATRL's Holy Trinity ▼▲▼ Season I - Page 41

collin

ATRL's
H O L Y T R I N I T Y
Round Three: The Entries

e437

borntodie

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Originally posted by borntodie

borntodie's "SAD" trinity

When I thought about sadness and what other emotions relate to
or originate from it, I found that it is often connected with loneliness and the feeling of
isolation. My trinity focuses on that one aspect, but the three songs each deal with it
in a different way - it's three different stages of isolation, a climax, starting out pretty
tame but ending in the extreme.

The Vines | Autumn Shade

~ melancholy ~

What I love about this song is the melancholy vibe it radiates.
It has a happy sadness to it, that feeling where you feel some-
where in between those two without actually knowing why -
where you daydream and want to sleep for days, hiding from
the world, but it's not really a bad thing. It's the state of isolation
where you're somewhat sad but still content being on your own.

+++

The Smiths | How Soon Is Now?

~ hopelessness ~

Moving forward to the next stage, this classic Smiths song has a
much sadder, already hopeless undertone. It deals with lone-
liness as a result of being unable to interact and connect with others.
It's an unwanted isolation as opposed to in the first song, you long
for human contact but it's impossible so you spend your life alone,
which is one of the saddest things that can happen to someone.

+++

Michael Andrews & Gary Jules | Mad World

~ depression ~

Completing the trinity is this calm but haunting tune where the
isolation has reached its peak: Having lost the connection to the
people around you completely, you only see the world from a
distance like an outside spectator. You think it's a mad place.
You're so depressed and apathetic to your surroundings that
you don't even feel anything anymore except in your dreams.

Not only do these songs tie together nicely because they touch on the same theme,
what they also have in common is that they are extremely powerful because of the
way the music embodies and reflects the lyrics and mood in each of these songs.
I think that's really important, especially in songs that are sad, that they can touch the
listener and make them relate to and just feel the same sadness the artist felt.

RatedG²

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Originally posted by RatedG²

The Sadness Trinity

Sadness is a word that evokes more than one emotion. Sadness encompasses depression, deplorable, stress, trouble, not in a state of well-being. The 3 following songs I feel best parachutes the facets of sadness and give it a tangible quality.

4 In The Morning - Gwen Stefani

Lyrics

Gwen Stefani on this tracks sings in a melancholy voice about going into a relationship knowing that there is a strong possiblity that something can, and will go wrong. So she sings about you having to give "everything" in, and she wants to make it worth it. She gives it her all but he does not, hence why she is sad in this song because she really wants her true love.

Strange Fruit - Nina Simone

lyrics

"Here is a strange fruit" Nina Simone sings as the pictures of history flashes beyond the monitor. The lyrics in this song are self explanatory as to why this evokes sadness, depression, death. This also evolves from the previous song. 4 In The Morning applies to a singular person while Strange Fruit now advances on to a whole country, and even the world. Everyone can feel this deep within.

Flower - Kylie Minogue

lyrics

Flower is a song written by Kylie in 2007 when she was undergoing breast cancer. It's a sweet lullaby to a baby she may or may not ever have, she just never knew. Like the other two songs, this song gives us a sad vibe. Like "Strange Fruit", a large section of people can feel the emotion in themselves as well as the song. But, unlike the other two, this song transcends history. If this song was made in the 1500s, mothers could still relate to it, a song dedicated to a child that they may never have.

All 3 songs have interesting characteristics that make them stand out, however all 3 are connected in certain ways to make them the perfect trinity. As with last round, this round these three songs could not get any better

Hugamari

Addicted

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Originally posted by Addicted

Hurt - Johnny Cash
► The sadness of addiction ◄

Hurt Lyrics

I remember crying the first time I saw the video to this song on TV, it's one of those songs which hits you hard. Originally written about a drug addiction, I feel like this song can have so many meanings. The song represents self-torture, knowing you are letting people down, being at the very lowest part of your life and feeling numb from the pain. From the opening lyrics 'I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel' the pain just resonates deep within, it truly is one of the most haunting performances.

Foolish Games - Jewel
► The sadness of love/heartbreak ◄

Foolish Games Lyrics

This song is about the pain and sorrow caused by love, whether it be unrequited or just genuine heartbreak. I find this song to be extremely beautiful, the song describes pouring your heart out to the one you love, begging them to notice you and listen, only to be left heartbroken. I know first-hand how horrible it is when people play these 'games' with your heart, when you give your all to a person only to have them mess you around. It's one of the worst pains in the world. And even after all the torture and mind-games, you still can't help but love that person, knowing it will destroy your heart in the end.

Mad World - Gary Jules
► The sadness of depression ◄

Mad World Lyrics

This song represents depression and the lack of self worth. When life becomes so dull and monotonous that you feel invisible, nobody notices you, nobody cares, it's a horrible kind of sadness. I find it very philosophical and tragically captivating the idea this song brings up, that for people with depression, your dreams are more beautiful and worthwhile than your own reality. This song is incredibly sad and I think it encompasses the theme of this round perfectly.

Killer Queen

Sebas

collin

JadGhamloush96

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Originally posted by JadGhamloush96

Sadness is a feeling which we've all felt and what can we describe it as? Pain. Hard-hitting, ruthless, cut-throat pain. When the tears fall down, feeling crushed and hopeless, that's sadness, also sometimes you don't show but it starts to build up inside you that it's bound it explode and tear your heart to pieces. We've all expressed sadness in several ways and forms like loneliness, heartbreak, disappointments, etc... The trinity I shows has been focused on a certain theme or a story that sort of unfolds the further you go in, that I have created called "The Aftermath of Heartbreak". Hopefully everyone enjoys it (not really enjoy it since it's supposed to make you sad so I don't know )

SAD SONG No. 1
4 AM by MELANIE FIONA

Who Knew That My Heart Could Ever Bruise?
For the first song, I chose this song about betrayal. The sudden moment when you realise that your partner, the one that you felt like they were your one and only had been sneaking behind your back with someone else. It's that crashing moment when you realise everything you knew with that person was a lie. The chilling music and heartleft lyrics like "Who knew that my heart could ever bruise, you see the scar here on my chest" just really get you. Who knew that someone you loved and wrapped your whole world around would drop you like that for a quick one. The agony and pain in Melanie's voice would make anyone who has, or maybe hasn't, gone through the "being-cheated-on" experience tear up! I know I did a little bit.

SAD SONG No. 2
November by GABRIELLE APLIN

How Can I Forgive?
After the truth has been uncovered and time passed, the heartbreak pain slowly turn into a rock solid drag on your heart. You dread the memory. You dread the time. You dread the day it happened. Gabrielle presents us with a song full of sorrow, and about how remembering that painful moment sort of brings the sadness pack. "I always used to love November, but now it always floods with rain" it's like that moment tainted the day. It tainted that time and every year when it comes, the pain repeats itself. The sound of her voice full of tears really adds to the song's mood. How can you forgive that moment nonetheless forget? Sometimes it's just too much.

SAD SONG No. 3
Breathe Me by SIA

Help, I Have Done It Again
And this is where this song comes along. When you have had enough of feeling pain, it has gotten to much. You need to free yourself. You are drown in tears, searching for a friend to hold you and tell you it will be alright. You might resort to many things like cutting or just hating yourself and your existence. When you have lost that person that holds you and provides you with the love that you need. "Hurt myself again today, and the worst part is there's no one else to blame" The person is gone, you keep reminding yourself of them when your all alone and you hurt every single time, and they aren't here to blame them. Sia wrote this song in a way that can be understood in many ways, I feel like you can take it as the way I did or you can explain as sadness resulting from isolation and depression. But after the heartbreak, you're bound to feel isolated and depressed if the person meant so much to you. Maybe someday a new person will come by, someone who gives you want you need, but until that happens the sadness might be too much.

Luigi

Nait Phoenix

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Originally posted by Nait Phoenix

I'll be honest; I really hate this challenge. I had to listen to so many songs that made me cry, scream, and crawl into a ball to sleep. It's just so depressing listening to songs that make you sad. But, here's my trinity.

Marvin Gaye - "Save the Children"

While doing the R&B albums' countdown, I had to listen to a few albums I haven't heard but were revered universally as being really good. And well, I stumbled on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On album, and I was saddened; not by the album itself, it was fantastic, but by what he was talking about... Let's just say, every song on that album made you think about society back then and how it is today: long story short, if we don't change how we look at the world, that album will withstand the test of time, and not in a good way.

But, to make a longer story short, one of the songs on this album was one of the most depressing songs I've ever read. Talked about how there aren't enough people who care about this world, yet the only one's who could are children. Which makes me remember that we all used to be children at one time, so at one time, we all cared for each other. It's sad to know there are people who don't realize this and still continue to loot, fight, and kill each other. And this song just reminds me of the truth, and the truth hurts...

Phil Collins - "Another Day in Paradise"

Almost in the same vein as "Save the Children", but with more story line and less speculation. Another song that makes you think and makes you feel; I almost teared up when I heard "Brandy & Ray J's" version, but I nearly broke down when I heard the original. It's really sad to know that this happens everyday; some people are just blind to it. I know how it feels to lose your home; it's terrifying to realize that you'll soon have no place to go and nowhere to sleep. The saddest part is that people like the woman in this song don't have a place to turn like I did.

P!nk - "Who Knew?"

When I lost one of my closest family members, this was the song I turned to. It helped me get all my tears out. I needed something that was upbeat, but spoke my heart. P!nk captured that perfectly. It's so sad to know that you were so close to someone you love, then to see them go. I think what made it harder to bear with it is that I saw her as my second mother: someone I could turn to when I needed to talk, someone who loved me unconditionally, and someone who would protect me... with her life... So, yeah, this song gave me that filling I had in my heart when she left.

CBXC

Katy.Kat.23

U4EA

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Originally posted by U4EA

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

This song was written for 1988's She's Having A Baby, a film that includes a scene in which complications during childbirth see a man fear for the lives of his wife and not-yet-born child. In the waiting room, he thinks about what he might have done -- or do -- differently as a partner, if only it were possible. It should strike a chord with anyone who has ever loved someone, depended on them, and appreciated them for their strength, but also kind of taken them for granted, and then had to come to terms with the fact that that person who meant so much to them might not be around forever. Listening to it makes me contemplate my shortcomings in my relationships with certain people in my life, and ultimately want to do better.

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven

For some inexplicable reason, my music teacher in Elementary would have us rehearse this song and sing it at assemblies. Maybe it was to expose us to a wide range of emotions at a young age? I never really questioned it. All I know is that it made me sad, and was perhaps the first song to ever really do so. (So it seems only fitting that I include it here!) Years later, I discovered that Eric Clapton wrote it following the death of his four-year-old son who fell from the 53rd-floor window of a New York apartment. I'm not a god-fearing person, but the emotion behind his words is so palpable that it transcends religious beliefs. Anyone with even a modicum of warmth in their heart should be moved by this song.

Cyndi Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

Sally's Pigeons is about a woman, namely Cyndi, looking back at her life thus far and reminiscing over the times she spent with a childhood friend who died from an unsafe back-street abortion when they were just kids. The lines about Sally's pirate smile especially hurt my heart. Every time. The best way for me to do this song justice is to urge you all to just listen to it and come to your own conclusions. Make sure you've got some Kleenex handy; such is the strength of the emotions it evokes.

Ozzy8923

YSL

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Originally posted by YSL

Y V E S i S A I N T i L A U R E N T
THE SAD TRINITY

SIA
B R E A T H E i M E

I still remember hearing this song for the first time a few years ago while watching the series finale of Six Feet Under and just associating the song with something so final. I cried and cried, even a while after the show was over and it was one of those rare moments where a song was able to break me down. The song is rather raw and you can even hear Sia's voice crack at times, making the song even more genuine. Breathe Me is about anxiety, overcoming it and sometimes even regressing, which is something I have dealt with in the past growing up. It signifies personal struggle and how it is an uphill battle.

ARCADE FIRE
C O L D i W I N D

Like Breathe Me, this song was also featured on Six Feet Under. Tying back to my fear of death in the first round, this song deals with having trouble moving on after an untimely death. As morbid as it may be, I always wonder how it will be when someone dear to me passes away. Will I accept it as apart of life or will I struggle moving on? While the lyrics are a bit repetitive and rather somber, it shows a glimmer of hope towards the end with the "hey hey hey", which is what makes this sad song that much more special.

GARY JULES
M A D i W O R L D

Originally recorded by Tears for Fears in the early 80's, their version, while great, fails to deliver the emotion Gary Jules does. Made for an equally depressing film, Donnie Darko, Mad World is about the world seen from a teenager's point of view. It's about the craziness happening all around you while you just float on by, unnoticed. Even though the song possesses many lyrical gems, the line "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" especially stands out as it demonstrates the teen angst most of us experience at some point where we just believe life would be better without us. In a way, it also describes just how routine everything has become, almost like we have become zombies to this world, forgetting about all the good things life has to offer.

Prayer

Attention! Regarding no-entries...

16 out of 17 submitted for this round, meaning Pretty Lady will automatically find a seat in the Flop Trinity.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean he will be eliminated this round...
Since he has been doing pretty decently throughout this game so far, the Golden Trinity could decide
to send a player who makes a second appearance in the Flop Trinity this round.

If Pretty Lady happens to submit in the next few hours while we are still judging, his entry will be
docked points on the rankings but he will still get a shot at avoiding the Flop Trinity.

Stay tuned!

YSL

Excellent entries but now I'm scared because two of my songs show up in other entries.

U4EA

Well done, everyone! I feel like we all did really well.

I found it hard to narrow it down to just three this time; I wanted Top Of The World by the Dixie Chicks and Martina McBride's Concrete Angel to make my entry a little quintinity instead.

Legend E

OMG The entries look amazing and mine looks like a flop as always

U4EA

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Originally posted by e437

OMG The entries look amazing and mine looks like a flop as always

Does not! And I kind of love that yours is the only entry this time that I'd never heard a song from.

Sebas

My entry looks like a mess.

Here's the fixed version:

Sebas.

Legend E

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Originally posted by U4EA

Does not! And I kind of love that yours is the only entry this time that I'd never heard a song from.

Thank you!

I kind of risked it all. I don't know if I respected the theme so much, but I wanted to make something a bit different.

I just want to get out of The Flop Trinity

Legend E

And U4EA, your entry is amazing too

CBXC

I opened Jad's entry and immediately facepalmed because I can't believe I forgot Breathe Me by Sia

It's seriously my favorite song to listen to when I'm sad. It's such a release. Great job, Jad

Legend E

My fav entries: Luigi, CBXC & Katy.Kat.23

DripDrip

You guys must REALLY love Hurt by Christina Aguilera.

U4EA

I could have sworn I centered my second song's title and artist. Look at me always messing up my formatting.

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Originally posted by e437

And U4EA, your entry is amazing too

Thanks!

collin

Y'all are always so worried about formatting

It won't get you any farther in this game! Though I'm not against good presentation.

Sebas

so many amazing entries.

Cupid

3 of us choosing Mad World

It's one of my favourite songs though, good taste guys

I was so close to using Irvine by Kelly but I thought I should stay away from Kelly I didn't wanna use her every round

Luigi

There's a lot of good entries!

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Originally posted by e437

My fav entries: Luigi, CBXC & Katy.Kat.23

Thanks! Yours was great, too.

Legend E

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Originally posted by DripDrip

You guys must REALLY love Hurt by Christina Aguilera.

I know I've had enough. I mean how many times was it in the entries? 4 times? I mean I live the song, but...Haven't you had enough of it judges?

You're welcome U4EA

Thanks Luigi

prayer

Everyone did very well

Ozzy8923

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Originally posted by YSL

Excellent entries but now I'm scared because two of my songs show up in other entries.

My last entry had 2 songs that were used by other members as well and it didn't seem to affect my ranking. I think the judges rate your trinity based on how well the songs go together and don't necessarily care if it's been used by other users.

At least I hope it's like that.