#not to mention all the r&b around that time that overlapped with the hip hop scene. god it was a good time for music

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the most insane thing about so many people not caring about rap and hip hop on this site is how many of them are in my approximate age group. like i KNOW you grew up being spoonfed some of the best and catchiest and most danceable rap EVER. you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing something you could move and jump and bump and grind to. the only other age group that had that many hits handed to them on a silver platter were those latchkey kids in the 70s who biked around town with their radio in the handlebar basket from 3pm through sunset. i KNOW you heard nonstop 50 cent even though you were too young to be in da club. you bastards. how could you turn your back on our cusp-zoomer heritage like this

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My Friendship With Grace

Grace and I met in my eighth grade math class, though it was seventh grade for her. She was honestly way too smart to be in the class, but she was required to have a math class on her seventh grade schedule, so she got pulled into the advanced algebra class for eighth graders. She barely showed up most days because she went to a special group where she learned concepts and formulas that I won’t get around to until my senior year of college. On the days Grace did show up however, she pestered me a lot. Being pestered wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, I didn’t mind her too much. She had braces, I had braces; she was kind of a nerd, and I was kind of a nerd too--it worked out. I would desperately try to figure out the answers of my homework (I still don’t quite understand trigonometry), and Grace would take my phone and play games on it for the entire class. I was definitely fond of her, but I didn’t think much of it at the time. If someone had told me that the eleven year old girl clicking away at Tap Tap Fish on my iPhone SE would grow up to be my best friend, I would’ve told them they were crazy.

Grace and I have an incredible amount of overlap between our interests, which is coincidentally how we reconnected as I went into high school and she stayed in middle school. I was playing a god awful video game with my friends one summer afternoon, League of Legends, and somehow ended up on a team with Grace in it. She entered the call and I recognized her squeaky voice immediately, so we both got talking again pretty quickly. At the time, we bonded over our unfortunate addiction to video games, and our love for Panic! At the Disco, though I like to believe our interests have become a little more refined in recent years. These days we like to go shopping, or just talk about clothes nonstop. We watch anime together, and we’ve moved on from sucking at League of Legends to building dreamy treehouses in Minecraft. In my opinion, our music taste has definitely developed too. She’s fallen down the K-Pop rabbit hole, whereas I’m a bit more into R&B and hip-hop. Despite our differences, I can always trust Grace with the aux cord. Deep down, I don’t think either of us is entirely out of our pop punk phase either. We’ve definitely had some interesting moments in the kitchen as well, whether that’s making an actual meal, or messing around with those DIY cooking kits meant for children. We did once make an entire Thanksgiving dinner for our friend group, and it was pretty damn good if I do say so myself. Additionally, we’re lovers of all things cute (which is definitely reflected in our Thanksgiving pie), and whenever I’m visiting her, we go on frequent Daiso (a chain of dollar stores with objects imported from Japan) trips to stock up on stationary, matching keychains, and other silly trinkets we don’t really need.

That’s the one disadvantage to the friendship--I have to visit Grace, and I don’t mean a walk across the street, a twenty minute bike ride, or even an hour long drive. I mean a three hour plane ride. Right before my freshman year, Grace’s dad got a new job opportunity working in Seattle, Washington. Essentially, she was torn out of the Midwestern cornfields and dropped off at a new trendy school in a new trendy neighborhood on the west coast as soon as we had started getting close. However, this didn’t stop us from deepening our bond. We did a surprisingly good job at staying in touch, and for the past five years we’ve been able to text for hours a day and call several times a week. As much as we both wish we could meet up at a small cafe for weekly study sessions, it’s just not possible, but we improvise. I’ve spent many nights on the phone with Grace while we watch cheesy animes, eat cut up fruit, and work on our homework. We miss each other like crazy, and COVID hasn’t made that any easier, but the saying “Distance makes the heart grow fonder” couldn’t be any more true.

When Grace and I do get the chance to be together, we go all out. I don’t know any friends who hang out quite the way we do. I don’t know anyone besides Grace who I’d be comfortable sharing a bath with while we wait for our lasagna to finish cooking in the oven. None of my other friends will have a candlelit dinner with me while listening to the Minecraft soundtrack, nor will they wake up at six in the morning to eat strawberries with me while we watch the sunrise. We once found out we were gonna be in the same airport at the same time, and decided to eat breakfast together before we had to part ways. We spend hours walking around the Mall of America since none of the malls in Washington even come close to comparing. One time we went to the art museum and pointed out any sculptures and paintings with two people in them that reminded us of ourselves.

That brings me to another point - Grace and I are insane at gift giving. With her sheer artistic talent, and my uncontrollable spending habits, we really do each other justice. Those sculptures that I mentioned Grace and I compared ourselves to? She made me a mini version of them for Christmas. No one else has ever taken the time to do something like that for me. This goes both ways. I know no one has ever gifted Grace an enormous package filled with nothing but merchandise from her favorite Sanrio character, Keroppi, or gifted her an entire outfit (complete with accessories) on her birthday. Even the letters she writes to me feel like tiny presents, they’re always handwritten and covered in adorable little stickers. She seals the envelopes with a wax stamp and everything. No one has ever done something so romantic for me before, not even my last boyfriend who I dated for two years.

I can tell Grace literally anything, and she can tell me anything too. I’ve found that in most relationships, there’s always certain things you can’t say to the other person. I’m bound to clash with almost everyone in my life at one point or another, and I can’t vent about someone’s BS to their own face. Even though things do get talked out with them eventually, it’s often after I have a lot of reflection and planning on how I want to discuss things. Grace is the exception to that--I can tell her anything. We almost never fight or get upset with each other. In fact, the only time we’ve ever had friend problems was when a girl at Grace’s school wasn’t too fond of me dating her ex-boyfriend, and she tried to mess with our friendship as a result. As you can probably guess, we got it figured out pretty quickly.

The bond Grace and I share is definitely not a common one to find. I’ve had friends tell me how badly they wish they had a friendship like Grace and I have, and honestly, I don’t blame them. I love every single one of my friends so much, but there’s such a great connection Grace and I have through our enjoyment of general dumbassery, but also our appreciation for things that are romantic and adorable. She’s the homemade whipped cream to my strawberry pie, the Dancing Figure #1 to my Dancing Figure #2. I want Grace to be in my life for a very long time, and I don’t doubt that’ll happen. I can’t wait for us to fall victim to the 50% divorce rate when we’re in our forties, and realize that “she was the one” all along. And I’m only half kidding.

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How Indianapolis R&B singer Andrew Young built global fan base online

Indianapolis R&B singer Andrew Youthful entices followers in countries where he's never carried out

David Lindquist Indianapolis Celebrity

Published 9:35 AM EST Nov 22, 2019

Indianapolis songs followers understand Andrew Young as a long-running R&B singer that carries out around the city and also maintains a regular DJ post degree residency at Broad Surge's Landsharks nightclub.

Outdoors Indiana, on the internet listeners are gravitating to Young's popular music. He's scored 25,000 followers at Spotify as well as 10,000 followers at Instagram.

There's little bit of overlap, however, in between people who join Youthful's series and also individuals that pay attention to his center audios. It could even be illustrated as a production gap. Regional fans who pertain to programs are 35 as well as much older, he said. Young's Spotify statistics alter younger, with ages 24 to 37 bring in up his best listener demographic.

Young mentioned he falls to the task of handling pair of occupations in one.

" I live to perform popular music 24/7, constantly," he mentioned. "It is actually a way of living. It is actually a service. It is actually everything."

Andrew Young launched his rendition of Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart" this month.

Picture provided through Andrew Youthful

Exactly how he constructed a worldwide complying with

The Lawrence Central Secondary School as well as Steward Educational institution alumnus introduced his vocal singing profession by seeming on TELEVISION's "Star Search" talent competition in 1989. Young gained his very first matchup in the male vocalist group prior to being actually bordered out the complying with week.

Today, flows as well as downloads are a solution of musical success. At Spotify, Young's tracks have been streamed greater than 1.5 thousand times. This summer season, song promotion firm DistributeKings.com delivered Young an oral plaque buildup to commemorate 1 thousand downloads of his tune "Til completion of your time" featuring Indianapolis rapper Skypp.

Disperse Kings is a report pool that services club DJs worldwide.

" You want those DJs to play your stuff," Youthful said. "Individuals hear it, and afterwards they go to my Spotify brochure."

His Leading 5 areas for Spotify audiences: Indianapolis; Cape City, South Africa; Istanbul, Turkey; Chicago; as well as Atlanta.

As an online artist, Youthful changed his process in the last few years from "single vocalist followed by tape-recorded important keep tracks of" to "band innovator."

He stated the earlier presentation became an obligation.

" They started contacting me the 'Karaoke King,' although I never did karaoke," Young claimed.

The singer constructed a sustaining actors, incrementally adding a drummer, supporting vocalist and also guitarist up until a full band supplemented Young onstage.

He likewise added keyboards to his private repertoire.

" It must evolve," Youthful claimed. "I wished people to take me very seriously."

He creates much more than 200 appeals every year, consisting of private activities, weddings and also reveals at clubs connected with well-liked gathering bands the Doo, Toy Manufacturing Plant as well as Living Evidence.

On Nov. 30, Young will title a Thanksgiving holiday weekend series at Royal Pin Western Dish, 6441 W. Washington St.

He enjoys mentioning the popular music field is actually "95 percent company, 5 per-cent skill."

" I work doggedly," Young claimed. "It is actually all about that networking hookup factor. I am actually continuously doing it. And also searching for the second best way to market my popular music."

The art of analysis

Although advertising and marketing procedures have actually modified, Youthful's music viewpoint hasn't alternated. He mixes R&B as well as hip-hop along with equal importance on old-school and also new-school strategies.

Young can easily surprise when choosing songs to deal with. Consider his rendition of Gem Jam's "African-american," the emotional focal point of the rock band's 1991 launching album.

" I would like to put my spin on it," Young claimed. " I desired individuals to experience one thing different when it's just a piano as well as a voice singing along with passion."

Youthful's current singular is his rendition of "Un-Break My Soul," the 1996 chart-topper for Toni Braxton.

Creating his own popular music

A new period of successful initial music arrived when Indiana manufacturer Brent Lindsay invited Young to vocalize on a demo keep track of being actually readied to accept R&B star Maxwell.

When Maxwell declined to document " Mind, Physical Body, Soul," Young stated the song as his personal. Lindsay then assisted Young apply an EDM appearance to a song entitled "Songs Don't Stop."

After several SiriusXM terminals offered spins to "Mind, Body System, Spirit" and "Music Don't Quit," Youthful signed a circulation take care of the Grove, a subsidiary of Sony Songs Amusement.

He attributes the Plantation for placing his songs in brand-new spots like Asia and also Africa.

" Probably 30 per-cent of my adhering to on Facebook remains in Brazil," Young mentioned. "I get information in Portuguese regularly. I attacked the convert switch."

When it began

On "Superstar Look," Youthful performed Freddie Jackson's "Bind Tonight" to win a sphere of the syndicated TV show. A depiction of James Ingram's "There's No Easy Technique" adhered to, yet the Indianapolis teenager failed to innovation to a third incident.

Host Ed McMahon presented Youthful through pointing out the singer required authorization to skip football practice to do on "Star Explore."

That bit of trivia is actually correct. Young went to House boy on a scholarship split between placekicking responsibilities for the regulation football staff as well as vocal dedications to the university's classic choir.

He stated the classical training remains to spend returns.

" I have the capacity to perform a three-hour series and still possess a voice," Youthful mentioned.

After "Celebrity Look," broadcast station WTLC dedicated airplay to Youthful's cover of Al Eco-friendly's "Let's Keep Together" in 1990.

" Although I have actually been in this service a really lengthy opportunity, I still presume I possess a much bigger future yet," he claimed. "I'm still aiming."

Andrew Youthful

>> > > WHEN: 9 p.m. Nov. 30.

>> > > WHERE: Royal Pin Western Bowl, 6441 W. Washington St.

>> > > ADMISSION: Free.

>> > > INFORMATION: Check out andrewyoungsing.com.

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