Blonde: Frank Ocean

As a long term fan of Frank Ocean, it was so exciting to hear that after so long he was finally releasing new music. Rumors on Twitter had failed me THREE times, and I had given up hope. Then on August 20, BLONDE was all over my feed on Twitter. I had MAJOR high hopes for this album.

I was let down :(. Now don't get me wrong, the album is good, but I was expecting better. After listening to the album 3 times, I could only get with Pink + White and Self Control. To me , those are the only songs that I can really relate to and I can see myself jamming out to in the car. The soft guitar in Self Control really gets to me and Pink + White really paints a picture in my head. 

Whether you liked, loved, or hated the album, Frank Ocean does a great job in the song/story Facebook Story appealing to everyone on social media. Social media is a part of everyone's life and that is scary! We live in a society where everything we do is on the web and sometimes that is not okay. The song is only a little over a minute, yet it made me just think for a second that "woah, let me not get sucked up by the world of twitter."

In the end, I still listen to most of the songs even though they aren't favorite. It's Frank Ocean, how can I not listen to it.

Journal Assigned: Annoying

For seven straight days, I had to log on a piece of paper all the different types of media I used throughout the day.

I found that this assignment was more time consuming than I would have thought to be. Not to my surprise, I spend most of my day listening to music. Whether I am cleaning, eating, doing homework, or scrolling through Twitter, music is always playing in the background. The most annoying part of this assignment was remembering after every text or every snap I had to log that onto my chart. I also forgot my chart at home when I worked a 9-5 Shift at work, but luckily my media usage by that day was so predictable (and it was a VERY busy day in the office) that I remembered all the times I had used my phone. Other than that, I was actually pretty interesting to see how much I was actually on my phone just on twitter.

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About Me

Hello beautiful people of the world, my name is Ashly Paredes. I just recently graduation high school from Linganore High this past spring. My current plan is to get my general education done at FCC focusing on Business Administration and then transfer to the University of Maryland: College Park in the fall of 2018. My guess is that this plan will change because I have no idea what I want to do with my life. The only thing that I am positive is that I will be graduation from college at some point in my life.

When I am not in class, I can be found at work at a State Farm Agency in Urbana or spending time with my friends and family. I am a fluent Spanish speaker, and my family is from El Salvador. I very much enjoy everything about my culture, from the food to the ridiculous superstitions. Two of my favorite things to do to dance and listen to music, and I listen to a variety of different styles of music ranging from Bachata and Banda to the latest R&B single out.

-Ashly