#the ballad of the costa concordia

[csh-tournament]

ROUND 3, MATCH 14

The Ballad of the Costa Concordia vs Sinner

Reblogs appreciated for bigger sample size

Listen below

[f1rewalk3r]

AND GOD WONT FORGIVE ME

AND YOU WONT FORGIVE ME

NOT UNLESS I OPEN UP MY HEART

AND HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT

WHEN I GO TO THIS SAME ROOM EVERY NIGHT?

SLEEP IN THE SAME BED EVERY NIGHT

SAME FUCKING BED

WITH THE RED COMFORTER, WITH THE WHITE STRIPES

AND THE YELLOW CEILING LIGHT

MAKES ME FEEL LIKE IM DYING

[lezarus]

the ballad of the costa concordia

[avamazingg]

She beach on my life till I death..

I KNOW I GOT THE LYRICS WRONG shhh

[sweetblasphemy01]

Since today marks the 7 year of the end of hell of the poor Concordia, I’ve made this using all the song with some parts related to the disaster.

On July 7th, 2017 the saga of the unlucky ship Costa Concordia ended. After it was refloated in July 2014, the Concordia reached the port of Genoa on 27 July of the same year to be scrapped. The operations of dismantling ended after 3 years. Of the Concordia only sad memories remains.

This incident had an huge impact especially in the music. The indie rock band Car Seat Headrest pays homage to the disaster with the song The Ballad of the Costa Concordia, included in the new album Teens of Denial, released in May 2016.

The backstory of this incredible tribute is that Will Toledo informed himself of the disaster and he was shocked and felt ache. The pain scale that he felt, has forced him to put it in the song becoming a slow ballad.

This song will always be the most important tribute to this incident.

[angstitty]

If Taylor Swift is MsKingBean89 then Will Toledo is MesserMoon

[breakmyheartwithlyrics]

Car Seat Headrest- The Ballad of the Costa Concordia

[dearestlyrics]

was the water filling up for years

or did i wreck it all in a day?

[hetomie]

Constantly just letting it linger instead of sustaining my anger like a normal person 🙄

[lvcky7]

i think we as a society need to talk more abt the breakdown in the ballad of the costa concordia because it is wonderful and makes me feel a sadness sooooo deep that i want to eat 10 chairs

[marimboy404]

[csh-tournament]

ROUND 1, MATCH 53

The Ballad of the Costa Concordia vs I am afraid of literally everything

Reblogs appreciated for bigger sample size

Listen below

[nymphoma]

And God won’t forgive me And you won’t forgive me Not unless I open up my heart

And how am I supposed to do that When I go to this same room every night And sleep in the same bed every night? The same fucking bed With the red comforter with the white stripes And the yellow ceiling light that makes me feel like I’m dying This sea is too familiar

How many nights have I drowned here? How many times have I drowned?

[sachkenntnis]

from the ballad of the costa concordia by car seat headrest

when you're a child and you stay up past your bedtime you get punished by your parents, when you're an adult and you stay up too late you just get punished by the ghosts and spirits and demons and such

[sweetblasphemy01]

An interesting description about the meaning of The Ballad of the Costa Concordia:

When Toledo came across news about the Costa Concordia disaster, he was deeply moved by the human tragedy that unfolded. The sheer scale of the incident and the loss of life compelled him to immortalize the event in a song, aiming to capture the collective grief and reflection surrounding it.

The lyrics paint a vivid picture of the chaos and despair experienced by the passengers, crew members, and their loved ones during the fateful moments of the disaster. It showcases Toledo's ability to create evocative imagery through his poetic storytelling, while still maintaining the emotional connection with the listener. The song's melody perfectly complements the haunting lyrics, adding another layer of depth to its profound meaning.

The narrator is in despair and cannot appear to find joy in life and instead of being angry and pent up with emotion he appears more an empty vessel unable to ‘sustain my anger’. Toledo uses the Costa Concordia ship metaphor to describe the ‘water filling up’ as potentially drowning the narrator in his own emotion with the ‘three hundred million dollars/To get me up tomorrow’ as a nod to the immense cost of the ship accident. Whilst the instrumentation starts off slow and almost secondary to the lyrical content of the song, as we approach the breakdown of the song the guitars and drums become more distorted and aggressive, bringing in a piano melody which attempts to guide the song back into line. The song plateaus and an interpolation of the Dido song “white flag” is used to much the opposite of how it was originally written; ‘I won’t go down with this shit’ and ‘I have lost, and always will be’ are just two of the altered lines which add a much darker implication then being in love. After this we get the spoken word section which sees the narrator taking on the role of the captain of the ship and taking claim of his ‘expensive mistake’ asking several ‘How was I supposed to…?’ questions which further develops the hopeless image of despair created so far. As the delivery of the vocals become more animated and faster the instrumentation follows suit and once again piano and guitar riffs draw into the final section of the song which begins just as Toledo declares ‘I give up’. After this we get a more contingent outro with a catchy but still distorted guitar leading the track. The verses structure sees Toledo quickly discussing everything from the current political state, the economy and ‘the denial of death’ by Ernest Becker interrupted occasionally by the crackling vocals of the second chorus ‘I give up’, this concludes the song but we still don’t feel the narrator is any better off than he was in his self-loathing state, despite having come to terms with his depression he still cannot be any more optimistic with the outside world giving him no comfort.

[angstitty]

The Ballad of the Costa Concordia

« If only I could sustain my anger

Feel it grow stronger and stronger

It sharpens to a point and sheds my skin

Shakes off the weight of my sins

And take me to heaven »

———————————————————————

This is so ATYD Remus

I think angry Moony is my favourite one

Like- ????

Actually begging please listen to this song if you like the marauders, wolfstar, jegulus, angsty indie music, or furry musicians (!)

Then if you like it, go listen to the WHOLE DISCOGRAPHY!

Or be normal about things you like, whatever…