Beautiful Awakenings: Video Inspirations

Literature and Music are my stimulus. For me, there's nothing better than great lyrics to a song, or the way a particular song can make you feel once the melodies and the lyrics come together to create beautiful harmonies and symphonies that seem to effervesce raw talent, energy and creativity. In the same way, one of my favourite ways to relax and unwind is simply to curl up on a deep sofa buried within a mound of blankets and cushions with some tea, and get lost in a book. Your mind starts opening up and you really start to get lost in a different world altogether. As long as my books and my music continue to provoke raw emotion and make me feel or connect with something....... then I am in love....[until my true love comes along, finds me and keeps me, that is! -LOL] I believe that what moves you can also have an impact on what makes you, your essence, and the kind of person you are, and the way you make your mark on others. I normally have playlists and piles of books everywhere, just waiting to be read or listened to..... The best thing I can do as an aspiring author is to read as much as possible, so I'm always making new reading lists, trying out book suggestions, discovering new authors and writing styles.... anything to make me see literature in yet another new light.
This post in particular focuses on the music videos that I have connected with in terms of their creativity and the story that they choose to tell, and the three videos in particular that I have chosen, are part of what inspired me to tell Stacie and Daniel's story in the way that I have so far.
I hope you enjoy them, and if you have any questions, comments, or anything you want to say, feel free to comment on here, on twitter, on facebook, or you can now find me at http://www.suganet.info too!

1. Song: ["Halo"] Artist: Beyonce Album: I am...Sasha Fierce [2009]
This video, shot alongside actor Michael Ealy, would sum up Stacie and Daniel's relationship in a nutshell. They really do love each other, and I thought this was an excellent video to show this, as instead of big, grand gestures of love, Beyonce describes to showcase the song sentimentally by focusing on all the small things that couples in a relationship usually take for granted and should spend more time appreciating.


Beyonce Halo

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2. Song: ["I Want You"] Artist: Common Album: Finding Forever [2007]
This video, shot by Common, shows a dinner party attended by guests which include the likes of Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Serena Williams, & Derek & Sophia Luke. The video also stars Actress Kerry Washington who co-directed the video along with main director Sanji Senaka - depicts two women [Keys and Washington] who harbor feelings for the rap artist. With Keys starring as his girlfriend, it would seem the two are in a state of homely bliss in their comfort zone with friends, in the throng of a successful dinner party, however their happiness has not gone unnoticed by Washington, who plays Common's ex girlfriend, who decides to break into the dinner party, unannounced.
Although I had already written the 'triangle', this video would have been an inspiration to me, and I could definetely relate what I had written in my drafts to the premise and storyline of this video.



3. Song: ["Lost Without You"] Artist: Robin Thicke Album: The Evolution of Robin Thicke [2007]

This song represents an equal balance of love and lust. I think that in today's modern world and society, we always overuse the word 'Love' using it as an almost everyday reference or term without even thinking about what it really means, such as "I love those pair of shoes." We don't take the time to find out if we really love that one pair of shoes, is it love, is it lust, is it infatuation, or something else entirely different? In my opinion, we should start lusting after a lot more things, and let's be honest, a little bit of lust never really hurt anybody.
Again, this is one I would use to once again describe Stacie and Daniel - most probably in the early stages of their relationship.

Robin Thicke Lost Without U
by Robin-Thicke