Let me start off by telling you that I was never the kind of person who liked rap. After voicing that fact to one of my best friends, he promptly introduced me to the musical stylings of George Watsky, better known as Watsky. My friend described his music as rhythm and poetry, he was most certainly not wrong. Now I could go on and on about which Watsky songs I like, which ones I love and which ones I just might be obsessed with. But I'm just going to focus on one, well three, but they're just three parts of one: Tiny Glowing Screens.

*songs may contain language and subtle drug references*

Tiny Glowing Screens Part 1

The first and most musical of the three, part one simply starts out with a repeated chorus of:

"When the sun burns out we'll light the world with tiny glowing screens."

He then goes on to sing about essentially how people have become attached to their phones. I for one am definitely guilty of this. It used to be my nose was always in some book or other and while I do still read actual real life books, I am far more engrossed in my phone than I would like to be. I was talking about this article idea with someone very close to me and they summed up Watsky's message: "Get off your fucking phone and be happy, you piece of shit." Being so thoroughly absorbed has caused so many people to become oblivious to the world around them, which brings us to our next part.

Tiny Glowing Screens Part 2

Not only is this track my favorite out of the three parts, it is also one of my favorite Watsky songs in general. Watsky jumps right in with the first verse:

"There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet And most of us have the audacity to think we matter."

Which if you think about it, with that many people it's hard to feel like you matter, but he takes it one step further with several lines later on in the song:

"The reason there's smog in Los Angeles is 'cause if we could see the stars, If we could see the context of the universe in which we exist, And we could see how small each one of us is, Against the vastness of what we don't know"

That shit's deep. It kind of shocks me that someone with this poetic capacity and someone like say, Nicki Minaj, can even be placed in the same category of "rapper." But not nearly as much as knowing that her name is more recognizable than his. For cripes sake, this man also wrote:

"But don't paint me as the good guy 'cause every time I write, I get to choose the angle that you view me and select the nicest light"

Compare something like that to anything that has ever come out of Nicki Minaj's mouth, I dare you. Granted I'm only using her as an example, I have nothing against her personally, just her 'music.' It isn't even in the same caliber as Watsky's. But enough about that, on to the last part.

Tiny Glowing Screens Part 3

In the final part of this saga Watsky speeds things up, a lot. He also incorporates a lot of similes that I'll be honest, I'm not even sure what half of them mean. But nonetheless there are some very notable lines, such as:

"Youth is inside of the heart, the future can never harm me, We're never tardy, Late or early don't worry we'll wait 'cause we're in no hurry to see those pearly gates."

But honestly, the lines that really get to me the most in the third part are at the very end. The last line is also where the name of one of his albums stems from:

"From the view of an atom the human body's a universe, How impossibly big it be, this symmetry, This brutality, beauty and synergy, And beyond what we'll live to see, I know nothing can limit me, Just take everything ever and we are that times INFINITY"

I could have gone so many different directions with this article, dissecting each and every verse for pages upon pages, but I think the songs for the most part speak for themselves. They did, after all, speak to me enough to make me want to write about them.

Truthfully I could go on and on about George Watsky, how one of my best friends has had the privilege to meet him, not once, but twice; and how his song 'Strong as an Oak' helped through quite a bit of anxiety. I could list off all of my favorites like 'Stick to Your Guns', 'Sloppy Seconds', 'Sarajevo', and so many more. I never thought I would like this kind of music, but here I am, listening to it on a daily basis because it's not mindless babble. His words mean something to more people than you might think.