SHINEDOWN FILM ATTENTION ATTENTION!

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This movie has an interesting blend of emotionally driven visual art balanced with the powerful musical renderings from the band’s 2018 album Attention Attention.   The movie takes the band’s songs to an entirely different level.  The film dives deeper into the band’s music by really encouraging the viewer to embrace and think about the story each song is trying to tell.  The film interjects spoken word interludes between each of these story driven music videos providing inspiring and or contemplative antidotes meant to make the viewer feel and think.  The film is unique, and I have never seen anything quite like it before.  The film compliments what I consider one of the best albums to be released in the last decade. If you want to see something different and experience the bands music in a new way, then I recommend watching this film. 

From the film Attention Attention

I do want to mention a side note in regards to this bands music. I lost a dear friend of mine to domestic violence a few years ago and I had a hard time dealing with this loss then and still do today. I felt complete anger and helplessness as I tried to come to terms with what had happened. As I tried to find a way to deal with the crazy batch of emotions that kept exploding in my head as well as my heart, I was also trying to learn how to except the new reality of her being gone. As you can imagine, I felt very lost. The only thing I knew or understood that I had to do was to keep moving forward. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. To make myself keep moving forward I kept covering shows for our publication. During this time we were approved to cover one of Shinedowns tour stops in NC. I had listened to their music before but there was one particular song I was not familiar with at the time. The first time I heard this particular song was when they performed it live. The song was called “Get up”. When I started hearing him sing the lyrics I got goosebumps and emotional. Even though I knew I was not alone in my pain because there were so many people that loved and missed my dear friend, I felt as if this song was telling me, “you will be ok Chris”. The song talks about feeling paralyzed but to keep remembering to get up and push forward. Though the song means something different for everybody, that night that song meant the world to me. Music is an incredible art that can help people feel connected while also, which I think is one of its greatest gifts, the feeling of being embraced and not alone.

So, thank you Shinedown for making such a great album but also an incredible song.

~ Lead Editor and Photographer Chris Sturk

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