Laika
Ezra S.
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Although I’ve made digital instrumental music and acoustic songs separately for a while now, this is the first time I’ve put the two together and actually self-produced one of my own songs. It was certainly a challenge, and perfectionism often came creeping in, but in the end I’m very proud of what I was able to put together. I wrote this song when I was going through a bit of a tough spot, and channeled a lot of angst into it; it’s about Laika, a dog that was sent to space, and to her death, by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I have often felt like this story is much more brutal and tragic than it is told as now, and attempted to capture that feeling in this tragic but also cathartic song.
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Creativity is an outlet for any emotion or idea imaginable, no matter how specific, personal, or strange.
