Week 4 Blog post

 

Week Four

Bradley Nelsen

                Nature Boy

     

     Nat "King" Cole

            Nature boy is an excellent example of what a ballad should be structured like in a song and what it should sound like. A ballad in the music world is a song that tells a story, this story in particular being about our very own "Nature Boy" an enchanted young individual who roams the rocky land and tretcherous waters to tell stories and spread love across the nation. This, being a mystical life with no stress and no worries, is nothing but a fantasy to most. A fantasy that is captured perfectly by the tone and instruments used in the music. The loud horns at the start of the song allow us to envison a decent uppon a lush, green and beautiful world that our beloved nature boy lives in. The woodwind instruments create a mild mannered tone to the image that Nat Cole and Frank De Vol are trying to show you in your head. The tone to the song helps build the nature boy character and the world surrounding him.

        Perhaps this song may draw inspirations from songs and ballads from the great depression era of music. A temporary distraction, or a transportation, from our world into another. Although this way of creating music may be dated, a mystical romp that can be enjoyed by the whole family to pass time will always be welcomed at the top of our charts in the music media.