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      For this week I chose the song "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars released in 2014 with Mark Ronson (linked below) The song is pretty nostalgic and I think it best described as a feel-good song. It won the Grammy for Record of the Year. It's categorized as being in the funk, boogie and pop genres and I remember watching the music video with my brother. I think it's cool how the song carries over from being fun to listen to as a kid and to still being a feel-good song now.     The big instruments used on the song include the trumpet, guitar and drums. I think the trumpet stands out to me the most and it's used really well to highlight the singing from Bruno Mars and help fill the space between verses. The drums and guitar stay pretty steady throughout the nearly 5 minute long song and provide a nice background. I also think it's fair to mention the music video which features bruno in a pink jacket with a group dancing around downtown Beloit in Wisconson. The mus...

     For this week I chose the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana (linked below). The song was released in 1991 by the rock band as a track on their album called Nevermind. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was written by Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. Kurt Cobain was the bands lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. Dave Grohl was the bands drummer  at the time and Krist Novoselic was the bands bassist.      The instruments on the song were (as expected) a bass, drums and a guitar. The song lasts for 5 minutes and goes back and forth from being calmer to being more intense. The song starts with a 35 second long instrumental intro, then begins the first section of calmer singing. The singing flips to being more intense at around 1 minute and at about 1 minute 30 seconds has a section of guitar. This pattern is repeated again two more times. They use repetition of the lyrics "hello, hello, hello, how low" as a transition from the calmer mu...