It's not often that I feel inspired to write lyrics, but something about this beat in combination with where I'm at on my journey called me to this time.

During my stay at my friend's place over the last month we decided to watch the new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie, and at the end credits a song called 'Am I Dreaming' by@metroboomin @ASAPROCKYUPTOWN&@Roisee__started playing and instantly grabbed our attention. The next day both my friend and I found ourselves inspired by it and going down our own separate rabbit holes of musical exploration. I was flowing on the melody you hear in my recording with my usual non-lyrical vocalizations, but something about it seemed to be calling for lyrics, so I started tuning into what I've been feeling lately and these came out. I was unfortunately a bit congested and not in great vocal shape for recording, but the inspiration was strong and time was of the essence in my temporary shed studio, so I just went for it.

Interestingly, I noticed toward the end of writing the lyrics that they coincided with some of the hero's themes in the story arc of the movie, so I thought I'd stitch together some of the scenes into a reel to highlight that, as well as to showcase some of its artistic brilliance. The art style of this movie might be the most innovative I've seen in modern times next to Avatar. It represents an incredible amount of work and research, a true marvel (😁) to behold. It was a real pleasure to go through the movie's individual frames to catch these moments and sync them to the audio. The amount of detail and expression is mind-blowing to gaze into at that scale.

This project also gave me an outlet to express some of my fascination toward representing musical elements visually. I had a lot of fun using adjustment layers to highlight the flow of the beat in a visually synchronous way.

And credit to@filmriotfor their great tutorial on achieving this comic book effect on my camera footage 🙏

Original Song: Metro Boomin - Am I Dreaming

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