{"id":2109,"date":"2025-04-01T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:26:17","slug":"ive-fallen-in-love-with-castlebeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/ive-fallen-in-love-with-castlebeat\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve fallen in love with Castlebeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CASTLEBEAT - Change Your Mind\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJ5U3Q3PZ4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s cool how YouTube can, out of the blue, recommend music I&#8217;ve never heard of before and when I click to listen, I become completely enamored with it. I&#8217;d never heard of Castlebeat before, but now I&#8217;m definitely a fan. The above &#8220;Change Your Mind&#8221; music video showed up in the algorithm and the cute Japanese girl caught my eye. I clicked on it and loved it. The song reminded me a bit of The Radio Dept. with the whispering vocals. The footage used to make this video was taken from some Japanese short film from the &#8217;60s. I&#8217;ve no idea what this movie is about, but this actress is very talented at expressing emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CASTLEBEAT - I Follow\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYLAE-tGl0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I liked that video, next to be recommended by Castlebeat was this video of &#8220;I Follow.&#8221; This video uses footage from the movie <em>Career Opportunities.<\/em> That movie came out in 1991. I was 15 at that time and my adolescence was really kicking into high gear about that time. I had a subscription to Muppets Magazine in the &#8217;80s and Jennifer Connelly graced the cover when <em>Labyrinth<\/em> came out and I thought she was pretty then. But in &#8217;91, Jennifer Connelly and her boobs were so pretty and she became my imaginary wife. She was in other movies like <em>The Rocketeer<\/em> and <em>Dark City,<\/em> but after 2000 she became so thin and gaunt-looking. The most recent movie I saw her in was <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> and she still doesn&#8217;t really resemble the round-faced beauty I fell in love with back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CASTLEBEAT - Video Tape (Music Video)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgb69PAcap8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, check out this video. The previous two videos were fan-made, but this is an official video by Spirit Goth Records. I love the old &#8217;80s video game arcade footage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlebeat&#8217;s music can be described in different ways. Lo-fi, dreampop, shoegaze. I&#8217;m really not an expert, but I like the effect of nostalgia I feel while listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool how YouTube can, out of the blue, recommend music I&#8217;ve never heard of before and when I click to listen, I become completely enamored with it. I&#8217;d never heard of Castlebeat before, but now I&#8217;m definitely a fan. The above &#8220;Change Your Mind&#8221; music video showed up in the algorithm and the cute &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/ive-fallen-in-love-with-castlebeat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve fallen in love with Castlebeat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,160,2],"tags":[259,12,86],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-nostalgia","category-video-games","tag-castlebeat","tag-retrogaming","tag-shoegaze"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":775,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/a-beautiful-song-sleep-by-slowdive\/","url_meta":{"origin":2109,"position":0},"title":"A beautiful song, &#8220;Sleep&#8221; by Slowdive","date":"2023-03-26","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ey4yAgLZlw If you have never heard shoegaze music, it's not merely something to listen to, but it's like a warm guitar bath for your soul to experience. 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