{"id":1142,"date":"2019-05-06T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:14:01","slug":"movedbymusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/movedbymusic\/","title":{"rendered":"Moved By Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve discovered a new artist that moved me. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rosiecarney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Rosie<\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Carney<\/span><\/a>&#8216;<\/span>s music doesn&#8217;t scream for your attention. It&#8217;s probably not going to hit some charts. It&#8217;s quiet, but penetrating. It&#8217;s soft, but her songs invites you in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">I am so taken by her music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">I first heard this track that she did called <em>Thousands<\/em>. In this track, she had the backing vocals from someone she looks up to, fellow Irish singer <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisahannigan.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Lisa Hannigan<\/span><\/a><\/span> (former co-singer with Damien Rice).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Here&#8217;s a live performance of the song, <em>Thousands<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dz7StCyXx5A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">I wanted to learn more about her. The Web isn&#8217;t sprawled with information about Rosie Carney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">I was surprised that she&#8217;s only in her early twenties. At the age of 16, Donegal\u2019s Rosie Carney signed a record deal that guided her away from the unadorned and honest songwriting that she wanted to pursue. After that false start, Carney knuckled down and got even more real and began to address her battles with anxiety, depression and an eating disorder that occupied her teenage years. &#8220;I lost so much weight. I don&#8217;t know how I didn&#8217;t die.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Here&#8217;s a short documentary about her battle with anxiety at a young age:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nk3maZYnmAA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">In the video above, she said that the catalyst for change was when her grandmother, who was suffering with dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8220;<\/span><strong>One day, (my grandmother) asked my mother if I had cancer, as I was so thin&#8230;. that&#8217;s when I realised I need to completely sort myself out.<\/strong>&#8221; <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Music really became a form of therapy for her. The song &#8220;Thousands&#8221; speaks about her grandmother<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Carnie Rosey&#8217;s music reminds that our life is not about comfort, but courage. It not about living an anesthetic life, but to be awaken each day to the <a href=\"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/anaesthetic-vs-aesthetic-experience\/\">aesthetics<\/a> around and within us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[69,14,68],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","category-reflections","tag-anxiety","tag-emotions","tag-music","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}