Category: Junior Literary

Welcome back to yet another section of the fnaf lore. I know this series has been going on forever but we still have so much to cover. I’m adding lore from the AR/VR games and the most recent game: Security Breach. We are about halfway through though. In todays section 4 new characters will also be introduced, pictures included. Welp, enjoy part 7. 

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People start complaining about foul smells coming from the animatronics in Henry’s establishment. Their suits haven’t been fully opened in years. William meddling with their suits caused a lot of bad press for the franchise. William dying, the animatronics broken, everyone he knew dead, if it wasn’t too much for Henry before it is now. It was overwhelming him, and he was struggling to keep the franchise alive. So, in the year 1993 Henry shut Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for the final time. He didn’t plan to ever open another location. He could forget and push aside everything. Except one thing, his daughter. He had a feeling his daughter was somehow inside the puppet. He didn’t know how or why he thought so but he could feel it. The puppet was the only animatronic Henry couldn’t find when destroying the Toy animatronics. He thought maybe it was stolen. But he still had a feeling. His solution was to make a new animatronic. One he would call, Lefty. Lefty stands for lure, encapsulate, fuse, transport, and extract. He created lefty for one sole purpose: finding and capturing the puppet. Henry wanted to destroy the puppet to set his daughters soul free.

William going missing wasn’t too much of a surprise to Michael since William left him alone all the time previously. As time and weeks passed Michael then realizes this is something different. He goes to Henry and asks if he knows where his father has gone. Henry denies and tells Michael to check the older locations William has worked at. So, Michael travels to the only opened location, Circus Baby’s entertainment and rental. Michael takes the elevator to this underground location and begins at the primary control. Michael was determined to find his father for many reasons but the biggest one was closure. Evan if that meant he had to play as a late night technician. Hiding under desks, hiding from animatronics, and fixing broken animatronics. Michael wanted to give up on this location until his 3^rd night being there. Michael wakes up inside the scooping room off the establishment. He was stuck inside a springlock suit. The same type of suit Evan was killed in. He freaked out almost fainting until he remembered he couldn’t activate those spring locks. Circus Baby goes on to tell Michael what the room they’re in is about. But before she can explain two technicians come into the room. Loud sounds of something coming towards Michael was all he heard. He eventually saw what it was. It was Ballora.

Baby explains, “There is something very important that I’ve learned to do over time. How to pretend. Ballora never learns, but I do. They think there is something wrong on the inside.”

Ballora gets opened by the scooper hitting her. With every hit Michael questions his survival. He felt something else though, as if he felt the pain of Ballora. As if he was watching someone, he knew get killed right in front of him. After Balloras torture stopped Baby opens the face place of the suit he is in and tells him it’s so they can find him on the cameras. He didn’t hear Baby’s voice for a while until he was found and rescued from the suit. Michael knew he was there because Baby wanted him to see the animatronic get destroyed, but why? That’s all he thought on his way home, but knowing William wasn’t down there he didn’t plan to return the next day. Michael gets home and watches his favorite show that he didn’t watch on the previous night. Baby and Ballora stood out so much to Michael unlike the other fun time animatronics. Michel knew he was onto something, so he called his mother for the first time in ages. She didn’t pick up. Michel though more and more on why these animatronics reminded him of his sister and mother. Until the realization hit, and he decided to return the next day.

Today Michael would have to fix Baby. He entered the primary control module onto to see the two technicians, hanging, through the glass by their necks. Baby tells Michel to destroy her body by putting her into the scooping room. He enters the room and sees all the funtime animatronics destroyed.

“Warning. You’ve entered a highly dangerous area. You’ve entered from maintenance hatch 1B reserved for cleaning and repair of the scooper. Entering this side of the room is strictly prohibited by unauthorized personnel.”

Another animatronic would appear, Ennard. Ennard was formed by all the funtime animatronics who destroyed themselves and mixed together. They formed into one because they were trying to escape. Their plan was better explained here by circus baby.

“You are in the scooping room now. Funtime Foxy has already been here today. Funtime Freddy has already been here today. Ballora has already been here today. Circus Baby has already been here today. I’ve been out before, but they always put me back. They always put us back inside. There’s no where for us to hide here. There is no where to go. When we look like this. But if we looked like you then we could hide. If we looked like you, then we would have somewhere to go. The scooper only hurts for a moment.”

With that a loud buzzing noise like an alarm begins. Michael is killed by the scooper. The animatronic, Ennard, would put itself in Michael’s corpse at their attempt to escape. Thinking this would work they went ahead and left the building. They saw the sun for the first time in ages. Until, Michaels body began to decompose. They left the body with Ennard escaping into the sewers. Micheal could hear the voice of circus baby chanting, “You wont die.” Michael rose up surviving determined to find his father.

Ennard roamed the sewers looking for any chance to escape. But there was a problem with ennard, Baby was basically the leader, controlling and demanding their every move. The other animatronics were annoyed of Baby’s controlling behavior and decided to kick her out. Baby left knowing she couldn’t win a 1V3. She vowed to put herself back together and become more than Ennard would ever be.

Ennard never fixed its wires. It stayed sporadic. Overtime it collected small parts until it could remake a mask based on Funtime Freddy and create its own fingers. Eventually becoming: Molten Freddy. This left Circus baby to go on a hunt to rebuild herself making Scrap Baby.

 

NEW CHARACTERS!!!

Lefty

Ennard

Molten Freddy

Scrap Baby

      Hey guys! I know in last week’s blog I wrote about sports that I’ve took part in, and I said that I would make it into a series, but I’ve decided to deter from doing so for another week.

     Today is February 8th and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Valentine’s Day is next Tuesday on the 14th and I’m going to tell you all how I prepare for it. So first and foremost, I think the obvious question is do I have a Valentine? The answer is……YES! I do have a Valentine and I’m not one to be consumed by “holidays” and what not, but I want to utilize every day that I can show her how much I care. She is incredibly special and dear to my heart, but I’ve been pondering on what to get her, or if I should get her anything at all. Maybe we could just spend the day together. I could make something myself, I could buy something, or I could do both, it just depends on how I feel in the moment. I feel as if handmade gifts are more heartwarming in my opinion.  

     So now for the preparation part. Yesterday we went shopping with some friends and we all found dresses for our school’s Valentine’s Day dance that is coming up next Friday. I found an elegant white dress that is very fluffy. I don’t know any other way to describe it. The dress doesn’t have any fur on it but it’s super flowy if you know what I mean. I may or may not insert a picture. I also found a black silk dress with a mesh film over top. It’s very pretty and way more fitted than the white dress. The black dress isn’t as elegant as the black one. I needed completely different options, so I bought an edgy look, and a sweet one. I’ve also been watching so many Valentine’s Day makeup tutorials. I like to look for inspiration then make things into my own. I have an idea of what I want to do, but I’m not totally sure. 

     I’ve also been looking for gift ideas and have had no real luck, except for one thing on Pinterest. It’s completely handmade, but it will take me some time to make. That shouldn’t be a problem though considering I have an entire week, but as busy as I am with school, I’m not exactly sure if that will be enough time. 

      Okay guys, I know this blog was probably pretty boring considering you don’t know who I’m talking about, and I didn’t say exactly what I’m going to get her but I ‘ll be back next Wednesday with an update and I will try to include as many pictures as possible in this post so that you all can visualize what I’m saying. See you next week! 

Hello! Welcome to part 6. For a little update, I do follow a video for the lore I can’t pull all the specific details out my brain, but we are almost 40 minutes through the video and it is an hour and a half long so we’re getting somewhat close to ending the FNAF lore! Well, here’s part 6!

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William’s wife eventually comes back to visit him. William immediately makes a point that he hates his son Michael and wants her to take him or William will throw him out to the streets. They argue, but after an hour William decides he is done with the argument and storms off to his car. Williams wife begins screaming and shouting that he- silence, as blood rushed from her stomach and she watches William stare while she falls to the ground to never wake again. He drags her to the car mumbling, “I’ll put you back together too.”

William begins working with Circus Baby sitting across from him. He thinks back to why he created circus baby and loosing Elizabeth from that. But nothing else to lose, why stop at one freak show? During the night William creates his next two animatronics: Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy. Both had different ways of luring and killing children. William also made a third animatronic that night; Ballora, a ballerina that would sing and spin. William based this animatronic not on luring and capturing, but on containing and storing his wife. With these 4 new animatronics and their AI systems; William opened a new location. No one that could be seen easily with an outsider’s view. An underground location where customers could rent outand have the animatronics at their birthday. This new location would be called, “Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rentals.”

Almost a year after Fazbear Entertainment closed the company they open a new location up to the public, Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria, but new. Henry and Williams rivalry continues with Williams grand opening. But besides all of this, unknowingly to William the animatronics are possessed, to make it worse some are his own family such as circus baby, fredbear, and ballora. These animatronics are angry, hungry for blood, trying to find their killer.

William sneaks into Freddy’s and heads towards the animatronics. With only one goal in his unstable mind. He destroys every animatronic at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. The souls of the four children were freed from their eternal cage. William knew something was wrong, he knew the children were still in there. Now free of their prison, the children were angry, staring at their killer. They move towards William in rage. He looks around for something to scare them away. William finds the old spring bonnie suit. He puts it on trying to scare the vengeful spirits and remind them of who he truly is. William laughed as the spirits stared, remembering their final day. The room they are in was built poorly, no cameras, and used for nothing. But due to the heat of the room the froxen condensation dripped down from the roof slowly. This wouldn’t be an issue if William didn’t forget the basic rules of a spring lock suit. Spring locks and water can’t co-exist. The spring lock suit malfunctions and springs into its usual position. William fell to the ground within his creation, blood pooling, as he is crushed. He pleaded to the spirits, but they went away, out of his sight.

The next day Henry comes into work only to hear shouts from his friends. He runs to see what happened, only to see William inside the suit covered in blood. Henry thought for a second, as William was still alive, he walked out the room and slammed it shut. He considered that karma had finally come for William. Over time Henry covered all entrances to the room until you couldn’t even tell it was there. The damage William did to the animatronics was too much for henry to fix.

so i’ve come to realize how often i write about music, and i’ve decided to change things up this week. i’ve played a lot of different games throughout my entire life, but some are so near to me that i have to put my opinion of them out there. these are games that maybe i’ve played once and fell in love with, or ones that slowly grew on me after months and months of replaying them. nevertheless, every game on this list i have a significant connection with, and i’m going to tell you exactly why. so, without further ado, here are my favorite video games.

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fallout 4

so this is almost close to being the most hated fallout game in the series, but it holds its place as my favorite video game ever despite. my stepdad got the game when it first came out in 2015, but told me i was too young to play it at the time. i was so fascinated when i watched him play it, and as soon as i was able to, i picked up the game myself. when i first beat the game, i immediately started a new save file and began to play it again. the storyline was so addicting and fun to follow, and i grew such close connections with all of the characters. it’s an open-world game in which there are many random encounters, and that makes it such an enjoyable experience for me. so far, i’ve played this game as least once a year since i first picked it up, which was around when i was 12 or 13 years old. as i type this, i am currently playing the game. after so many years of playing it and exploring it, i still have not seen all of what the game has to offer. no matter though, it will hold such a strong place in my heart.

the legend of zelda: ocarina of time

so, this is my other favorite game of all time. i was first introduced to it when i was very young, and i quickly fell in love. there are so many little details in this game that i could fantasize over and over about, but the atmosphere is what i’m going to focus on. this atmosphere in this game is top tier. the music first off has always had it’s own place in my head. years and years after initially playing it, i could still remember the music that went with each area crystal clear. i swore it was like i could recite them without even trying. the storyline and scenery change that happens after you age up is so well done and disturbing, it still freaks me out to this day. if i could, i would play this game over and over, but sadly because of it’s age, it’s very hard to play it efficiently when i only have it on my old nintendo ds. oh well, honestly such a great game nevertheless. 

ghost of tsushima

i got this game when it first game out, and it completely broke me. i remember playing it intensively throughout the week, letting everyone in the house know my initial reactions to certain scenes. the graphics is where this game truly shines. there are so many beautiful open-world scenes, and the shading and lighting really help those areas reach their fullest potential. the storyline is fun and interesting, heartbreaking and not fair, but it is so fulfilling in the end. also, the best part, you can pet foxes. yeah you heard me. you. can. pet. FOXES.

the sims 3 

so, i love every sims game in the series. i never played the first one that much, but i’ve been playing all the rest since i was super young. when i was around 5, all i would play is the simpsons hit and run and the sims 2. then, when i was in my older elementary years, i played the sims 3 every single night. then finally, when the sims 4 was announced, i preordered a limited edition version of the game and that’s the one i’ve been playing ever since. however, the sims 3 will forever hold its place as my favorite. i love the open-world feeling to this game that was completely lost in the sims 4. this game is infinitely better than all the rest in the series and i long for the day that i can play it again. wait, actually, i can play it right now on my laptop. i’m going to go do that, cya. 

the legend of zelda: breath of the wild

this isn’t my next favorite zelda game in any way, shape, or form. but, there’s something about it that ranks as one of my “favorites” rather than just one of my favorite zelda games. the graphics are beautiful, and the storyline is almost up there with it. i love most of the mechanics, but some i do find a little unnecessary. still, i love this game a lot. i definitely recommend it for any new zelda fans, but still do remember to check out the originals first:)

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what a fun little blog !! i definitely enjoyed it, let me know if you did too:) gooooodbye, cya next week.

 

Hey guys! In today’s blog post I’ll be talking about all the sports I’ve played, rating how much I liked them and why I stopped participating in them. I’ll be going in order from best to least enjoyable. 

     The first sport is cheer. I give cheer 1,000,000,000,000,000/10. Cheer is by far the best thing I have ever participated in. It’s the best decision I’ve made in my entire life, and I don’t make too many good decisions, so that says a lot. Cheer is amazing. It requires stamina, flexibility, strength, and agility. While cheering I stunted, tumbled, and jumped in competitions, as well as doing sideline cheer for football, basketball and other sports at my previous high school. Jumps require so much stamina, because we used to do them as one big group, and if one person messed up, we did it repeatedly. Stunting was my favorite because the variations within it are endless. Stunting made me gain confidence, learn to trust the people around me, and it made me incredibly strong. 

      The second “sport” is Mixed martial Arts. I give this 10,000/10. I took a Korean martial art called Han Mu Do. This taught me so much discipline and how to respect Korean culture and the other practitioners of the art around me. It taught me how to control my anger and that I shouldn’t use this art to hurt people unless necessary. Martial Arts wasn’t as popular within children my age, especially African American children. So, I wasn’t surrounded by too many people that looked like me but there were some. It made me feel special and made me appreciate the art so much more. 

     The third sport is basketball. I give this sport a 2,000/10. I loved basketball, but it had so many negative entities surrounding it. The huge crowds made me nervous. That was weird, because I loved seeing huge crowds when publicly speaking and cheering, but basketball was a whole different story. I was an average player if I’m being honest so that may be why crowds made me nervous. I was so used to being the best at everything that I did so my faults in basketball consumed me at times. But that’s neither here nor there. Basketball was fun. I gained a new family that supported me even when I failed. The guy that I was talking to at the time played basketball as well, so that made it fun as well, but he was really good, so I hated being compared to him. 

     I’ve participated in so many sports and extracurricular activities that I’ll have to make a list. I think this is interesting so I may make this a series and do three different ones each week. Until next time guys. Byeee! 

I feel like this post is relevant because of our literary unit being playwriting, and I thought it might be a good idea to share some thoughts and feelings about this. Maybe you can relate, maybe not but simply just wanted to share how I feel about this. Nothing negative or anything like, “Oh, my God, I absolutely hate playwriting!” It’s nothing like that. This is simply me venting and being honest with y’all and myself.

For one, I never thought of myself as a playwright. I didn’t think it would be something I would end up doing or be good at. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m good at it mostly because I’ve only ever wrote two ten-minute plays. Though, I feel like I may be getting better at it. But is it something that I intend to keep pursuing? Maybe for a little while just to see if it kinda grows on me and if I eventually get really good at it, but in the long run, no. I do want to pursue writing in my career, but as a novelist or something like that. I might touch more on what I want to do after college later.

Another thing with writing a play for me is coming up with an idea that would be suitable for a play is difficult. Like I said, I’d prefer to write a whole book and most of my writing ideas would require to be prolonged and they wouldn’t really fit as a play. It took me until the last couple of days on the latest playwriting assignment to stick with an idea and condense to ten minutes. Could it also be a longer story? Absolutely, that is something I’ll consider doing later. Bottom line is that what I come up with may very well be good as a short story or book but not so much as a play. 

Anyways, the whole point of making this post was simply to share that I don’t necessarily see myself becoming a full-on playwright, but perhaps it will begin to grow on my later. I hope that if this is something I choose to continue on my own time that I’ll be able to come up with unique ideas suitable to portray onto a stage.

That’s all for this week, have a great rest of the week and a great weekend. See you next time:)

Hey guys! Today’s blog will be about overachieving. I’ll speak on my experience in overachieving and why we as people aim to do it. Let’s get straight into it. Overachieving is the act of performing better or achieving more than is expected or standard. Overachieving to me is the act of trying to obtain self assurity or confidence while canceling out insecurity. The main question I have is “are overachievers insecure, or do they just lack educational confidence?” During my research I learned that the act of overachieving can stem from feelings of insecurity and inadequacy. In a job or at school, completing a task or assignment can offer feelings of self-worth and relief. Instead of soaking in and savoring the feeling of that accomplishment or achievement, overachievers tend to move onto the next task and expect even more for themselves.  

Don’t get me wrong, overachieving can be a great thing. It shows how much you care about and respect the work that you’re doing, but overachievers don’t always give their work value or see finishing a task as meaningful. People usually see overachievers as smart, hardworking, successful people. That is how overachievers should be viewed but when you start to feel like your achievements are being shadowed by anxiety, or an overwhelming fear of failing you may need to think about why you want to succeed so badly. Failure is a part of so many processes of life and it eventually leads people to success, but if you can’t stand the thought of failing then you may be a perfectionist as well. Overachieving and perfectionism are a terrible pair made in the devil’s workshop. Me personally I don’t think I’m an overachiever or a perfectionist, but a mixture of the two. I say that because if I fail, I’m not okay with it, because I want to succeed, but I also don’t stress over it. I just think of it as part of the process and say “I’ll get it next time”.  

I know people that will study for hours the night before a test and then start crying thinking that they’ll still fail. Something I’ve also realized is that overachievers and perfectionists are always motivated by someone or something. For example, they may have gotten into their dream school and dedicated their success to their grandmother who passed away shortly before. Now they think if they fail, then they’ve failed their grandmother. Or their mother may be pressuring them into having perfect grades, etc. I feel like people around us fuel a lot of our personal insecurities and we shouldn’t let that happen. I know that it’s easier said than done, but it can be done. Make sure that whatever you want to achieve is truly important to you perosnally. 

Bye guys, see you next week! 

This part is very very short for two reasons. First, I wanted to wrap up the story from the previous blog and have it slightly shortened rather than very long because I started a new section. Second, I wanted to include pictures! I didn’t think about this until part 3, but i want pictures so you can have a visual representation of what I’m talking about. So, at the end of this blog there will be several images with titles. The images will protean to thee characters introduced in parts 1-5. 

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After everything went down, the same bullies that let the puppet out the box were still screwing around with the animatronics in the pizzeria. This time it was mangle, they ripped its original suit to pieces until it was a pile of scraps. Mangle was dismantled daily by the kids and eventually the staff stopped repairing it. The animatronics were growing angry causing them to behave differently towards the adults and staff members. Mangle started becoming unstable. The kids were once again dismantling mangle until it got enraged. Mangle bit down on one of the kids and caused the loss of the frontal lobe of the victim’s brain. After this all of the toy animatronics were scrapped due to apparent malfunctions, more specifically mangel’s bite. At the same time the second missing children’s incident had came to light and the building was put on lockdown for now to avoid any more casualties.

“Um, from what I understand, the building is on lock down, uh, no one is allowed in or out, y’know, especially concerning any…previous employees. We’re going to try to contact the original restaurant owner. Uh, I think the name of the place was ‘Fredbears Family Diner’ or something like that. Its been closed for years though, I doubt we’ll be able to track anybody down.”

On this day they tracked henry down and he went back to work but not for the reasons he hoped he’d come back for. Henry and his team had yet another meeting where they decided to shut down the location and make a new one with no security system animatronics, just simple singing and dancing animatronics. Henry would be personally making the animatronics to avoid incidents or bugs. For weeks henry repaired and brought new life to the broken-down work in progress suits.  Freddy Fazbear would be the main driver of the restaurant, with bonnie the bunny, chica the chicken, and foxy the pirate fox.

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IMAGES!!! (quite a few so bear with me)

In the games most lore is unlocked through mini games you have to discover and decode. The mini games are in 8bit while the main game is not. That’s why it goes back and forth in the images. 

William Afton

Henry

Elizabeth Afton

Evan Afton

Michael Afton (younger and older)

Toy Animatronics

(left to right: mangle, bonnie, freddy, chica)

Circus Baby

Work in progress

Completed work in progress and golden freddy

Charolette and the puppet

This has once again become one of those weeks in which I have nothing else better to post about, so I will just list some cars that I would do almost anything to own, fixer-upper or not.

Now, with fixer-upper being said, the majority if not all that I will list will be some old cars- specifically from approximately late 60s. I love older cars, and in my opinion, a lot of them are better than some of the brand new cars. That’s my opinion. I am not a brand-new Lambo kinda gal. So, without further ado, here are some of my dream cars:)

1.1967 Impala

If you know, you know; I don’t even have to explain. One thing I will say, though, is that the impala has experienced a really bad glow-down since this model. Need an example?

 

…Yeah, see what I mean? This is a 2020 model of the impala, and I for one would much rather the 67.

2.1967 Shelby

Yes, I am aware of a little pattern forming. Exteriors are both black, and both cars are from the same year. A little story about the shelby mustang: my grandmother’s dream car has always been a blue or turquoise late 60s mustang with white leather seats. That’s how my attention toward the old mustang started. Then my dad was watching a John Wick movie( I don’t remember which one) and I had come into the room during a scene in which he was stealing back is mustang very similar to the one shown above. Well of course, as expected of a John Wick movie, he was fighting with these other guys that were chasing him and as a result, he totaled the car. It almost physically hurt. Anyways, I know that was kind of a boring story but that’s how I grown the love the 67 shelby.

 

3. 1973 dodge challenger

Now, for this one, there is no major significance as to why I love this one so much. And what I mean by that is there is no type of story or anything. I was just looking online at similar cars to the impala and shelby and I saw this one and I absolutely love it.

4. 2019 camaro

Finally, a break in pattern. I’ve always been a camaro fan ever since I was little and realized what a camaro was thanks to Bumblebee. This is probably the only new car that I would want to have, the Chevy Blazer runs close second to this but that is more of a “mom car”. If I’m not mistaken, the last year Chevy will make a new model for the camaro will be 2024. Honestly, they’ve reached that point that there’s no point in continuing it because the camaro has reached its peak, so I’m not all that sad about it.

Honorable mention:

Now, obviously this is not a car so that’s one of the main reasons I’ve made this an honorable mention. Also, I wouldn’t call this my “dream vehicle” but I would love to own one someday.

Anyways, that’s all I have for this week; I hope you’ve enjoyed this post. See you next time:)

hello !! here’s come cool news: i’m going to be writing for a music magazine soon !! my dream is to be a music journalist so getting to this point at such a young age is honestly so exciting:) it’s just going to be a little side thing, unpaid of course, but i thought you all should know !! anyways, i was shuffling my spotify when i realized that i listen to a lot of artists that focus on an acoustic atmosphere. i love acoustic music, but i never realized how much of it has recently taken over my liked songs until now. so i thought i’d be awesome and cool and tell you some of my favorites and give you some song recommendations !! enjoy:)

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elliott smith

so, i had to get him out of the way first. the majority of his discography is acoustic, so if you’re looking for consistency, here he is. not only is it mainly acoustics, it’s really good acoustics. his ability to write riffs and melodies on guitar is unmatched, and it all pairs perfectly well with his lyrics, which are almost acoustic themselves, if that makes any sense. if you’re looking for really soft, almost simon and garfunkel-like vocals, and beautiful well-mixed melodies, then elliott is the artist for you !! songs i would recommend for first getting into him are: angeles, tomorrow tomorrow, junk bond trader, needle in the hay, no name #3, twilight and georgia, georgia !! that’s a song from each album !!

simon and garfunkel

so, speaking of “simon and garfunkel-like vocals,” here’s simon and garfunkel !! now, i’ve never been a super big fan, but recently i’ve been listening to them a lot more. i wasn’t a fan at first, but their layered vocals and striking acoustics reeled me in and now i can say i am a fan. if you like story-like lyrics, doubled-up vocals, and acoustics that excite and sometimes even surprise, then simon & garfunkel is for you !! my two recommended songs for someone new to them are the boxer and america !!

bob dylan

the reason i am including bob dylan here is because i believe a large part of his discography is purely acoustic, so he gets a spot on the list. his acoustics are often characterized by strong, loud acoustic guitars and very, very loud harmonicas. of course, he still has his plugged moments. but bob’s acoustic work has inspired decades worth of musicians, so i feel wrong not to put him on the list. if you like story-based lyrics, questionable vocals, harmonicas and prominent acoustic guitars, then bob dylan is for you !! some songs i’d recommend if you’re new to him include: changing of the guards, if not for you, subterranean homesick blues, to be alone with you and boots of spanish leather !!

nick drake

nick drake was an artist that i avoided for a while, and for no real reason. i don’t know why i did, but i regret it immensely. nick drake’s story is so heartbreaking to me, and his music is just that- heartbreaking. but in a way, it’s heartbreakingly beautiful, especially when you realize his music was never really recognized until after his death. i feel such a connection with nick drake, and it’s not even because of his music. but besides that, drake’s acoustics are soft and melodic, and his voice mirrors that. if you like soft acoustics with great melodies, unconventional vocals, and beautiful heartbreaking lyrics, then nick drake is for you !! songs i’d recommend for people new to his music include: pink moon, place to be, road, and things behind the sun !!

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so that’s it !! those are my favorite acoustic artists that i recommend if you’re interested !! they’re fairly popular so it should be easy to find their music online:) let me know if you listen to any of these artists and if you like them !! cya next week !