Music Review // Rodrigo y Gabriela "Monster"
"Monster" is a song which feels both important musically but also when intertwined with its music video as well. Rodrigo y Gabriela begin this song with these dark guitars that are acoustic and as the song goes on, the pace increases as does the intensity. They build to electric starts and stops, as this song isn't about the verse/chorus/verse style but closer to an expansion, just taking a sound and really opening it up. In this way, I feel like this song is given life. It's created in the same way that Frankenstein created his monster and perhaps that is the idea behind the title of the song as well. The music video which goes with this song is animated by Naoki Urasawa, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential creators of manga, even having a book from back in 1994 called "Monster". When I say this is animated, you are literally watching it be created as the music plays which in some ways feels like a ...
