Mesfin Fekadu of the Associated Press described the song as "a beautiful song about falling in love" which could "make anyone's irritating day better". Jason Lipshutz of Billboard described the song as "nimble", and stated that its "backing vocals, string plucks and soaring romantic declarations would make this a bid for future wedding playlists". Mike Wass of Idolator described the production on the song as the most expansive of Bareilles's career, with its incorporation of "kooky staccato beats" and a "sprinkling of synths". The video combines footage of the preparations with shots of Bareilles singing, and culminates in the proposals. It features two real-life couples - one heterosexual and one lesbian - delivering unique proposals to their significant others with Bareilles's assistance. The music video for "I Choose You" was directed by Dennis Liu and was released on May 5, 2014. Its lyrics describe the act of falling in love and the "beautiful start to a lifelong love letter". It is composed in the key of A Major, with the vocal range spanning from E3 - F ♯5. The song is a mid-tempo indie pop ballad with elements of alternative music, set to a beat of 76 BPM. It was certified gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 units. The song peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, number 14 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, and number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100. "I Choose You" was released on Januas the album's second single and was featured in the television shows Life Sentence and Secrets and Lies. The song was written by Bareilles, Jason Blynn and Pete Harper, and produced by Mark Endert, who also produced her hit " Brave". " I Choose You" is a song by American singer and songwriter Sara Bareilles from her fourth studio album, The Blessed Unrest (2013). Tokyo Police Club is a truly creative and original band.2014 single by Sara Bareilles "I Choose You" Listening to this band has helped me fully understand the intense change in emotion a musician can bring over an audience. A lot of songs start quite mellow and abruptly change to upbeat and fun. The band as a whole create a lot of tension and release within their music. Monks also use an unreliable narrator at times to help the audience better understand the story of the song and to open a more personal dialogue between the audience and himself.
Dave Monks, the singer and lyricist of Tokyo Police Club, uses double entendre in a unique way for indie bands. The lyrics are a crucial part in the success of this bands music as the lyrics have many possible meanings, there is a lot of subtext. One of the best things about this band are their lyrics. They have influenced me as a creative person with their impeccable use of text and subtext and incredible use of tension and release. Tokyo Police Club is a Canadian indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario. As a creative person I try to recognize inspiration, even if the time is inconvenient. I think this is a good way to retrieve answers to problems it just may be hard for some.
Another part of this is the way inspiration can strike at any time and it is up to the person to recognize this inspiration. Part of this is the way the mind becomes consumed by ideas for a solution to the point the person may not even realize they are thinking of potential solutions. It shows how the brain seems to think of the presented problem at spare moments of the day, or how inspiration for a solution or idea presents itself in everyday life.
The examples Ditkoff presents of “eureka moments” seem to be examples of how some people’s minds think after long struggles of brainstorming solutions to a problem. How does one listen to their subconscious? The idea presented was to just follow you intuition at times, but more so how a person’s mind slowly becomes consumed by a problem. At first this stuck out to me because it was funny. The first idea I found interesting was number 7, listen to your subconscious. There were three suggestions which stood out to me. This article is helpful to those individuals who struggle with creative thinking, which seems to be everyone at a particular or another. In Ditkoff’s article he lists 14 ways to get breakthrough ideas and a way to start each of these 14 suggestions.