Husky Band Uprising: Song Analysis

The song that represents me from the Husky Band playlist would be Uprising. It’s a little difficult to put the “how” into words, as the words of the song only represent me a little, but the musical journey it takes you on is what I think describes myself. First and foremost, many people take others based on first impressions. I can easily be described as a quiet and awkward person, and for a lot of people they don’t see those as qualities that can succeed - especially in a position that aims to make sure the crowd is pumped. But look where I am now, I’m a third year in my second year as squad leader and planning to audition for section leader - something I’m sure many people wouldn’t have expected in my rookie year. I’m still incredibly quiet, but it just goes to
show that these molds of being “loud hype creators” mean nothing and I can do anything as long as I put my mind to it. This is my experience and I will conduct it as such. My uprising is breaking out of the idea that to succeed you need to loud and the center of attention.

The song itself starts off soft and brooding, but in such a way that you don’t really expect many things from it - just a catchy tune - and then when it hits the chorus it’s just this big and surprising wall of sound that just engulfs you.
You become enamored with what it is trying to tell you. This goes both with my experience of HMB and life for me. Coming into HMB I really thought it would be another band, like high school. I left band in middle school we had a band with four members and instrumentation that would make any director cry, and returned in high school to a band that only did two parades a year and never had to do a field show. I had no real idea what I was getting into when I signed up for HMB, in fact, I did on a whim. I expected it to be a well-disciplined group of individuals who were very musical and precise, almost like drum corps. Then suddenly during the rookie demo during PSDs it was a big “Surprise, this is what you are in for! This will take what you know and turn upside down.” It’s truly something that can’t be experienced anywhere else. All the buildup leading up to it, didn’t set me up for what I thought it would be, but I was pleasantly surprised with what I
got.
During this past year, I was fortunate to travel and meet multiple different members of varying bands, all of who were some incredible people, but during the course conversations I realized I wouldn’t want to trade my experience in HMB for anything. I want to make sure that people in the future can experience what I was and am able to get from HMB. This whole experience has made a lasting impression on me. While we really aren’t staging an Uprising, there are so many people who can come through and are just as powerful as an uprising can be. I mean, when the band shows up, the mood of everyone just changes. It’s an uprising in the sense that the band is the place where you want to be, and it has completely shaped a core part of who I am.
Myself, I’m an uprising in how people view me. I don’t consider myself a loud or very talkative person and anyone that you ask would probably agree with me, but I want to show that has nothing to do with the things I am capable of and able to do. Not only that, but I’m proving to myself that I can change too. I went from an awkward kid who didn’t really do much, to an awkward band kid who wanted to do everything, but that doesn’t really matter because here I am having the best time of my life even if people will continue to say that I am doing it wrong. I really care about the band and while people who may have not had that experience (or any band experience) call me silly and tell me to move on, it’s something I want to keep for the rest of my life. I came in a person who no one expected to really shine through, especially in a band that likes to yell and cheer, but here I am shining just as bright as the people next to me and I still get to be me.