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🔵 fun facts about blue
Blue is the world's most universally liked color — studies across cultures consistently find it ranked first, which makes it uniquely lonely: loved by everyone, belonging to no one.
There was no word for blue in many ancient languages, including Ancient Greek, Japanese, and Hebrew — it was the last primary color humans learned to name.
Blue light has the shortest wavelength of visible colors, which means it scatters the most — it's literally the color that spreads itself thinnest trying to fill the whole sky.
In color psychology, blue is tied to both trust and sadness — it's the color of what you thought was solid slowly showing its cracks.
"Feeling blue" as an expression of melancholy dates to the 14th century — sailors would fly blue flags when a captain died at sea, mourning displayed in color.
The film Blue Valentine was shot in two different formats — warm Super 16mm for the past, cold digital for the present — because the color of love changes depending on when you're looking at it.
✍ what this song means to me
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So Blue Valentine has been out since 2020. It's one of my fan favorite songs and my most streamed. I remember hearing the beat and it already had dialogue on it. I recognized Ryan Goslings voice immediately, but couldn't recognize what movie it was from. This puzzled me as I am obsessed with Rom-Coms, specifically the ones about heartbreak, so I wrote the dialogue into search and the movie Blue Valentine pops up. I had never seen it before. I planned to and one night, as I was going through a tough time in the relationship I was in, I played the movie. I watched it by myself and it completely tore me apart... in all the good ways!
I immediately started writing that same night and finished the song in about 30 minutes. Something about that FLOW STATE really gets ahold and you can't stop. I ended up recording the song in my house in San Antonio about a year later and the song Blue Valentine was born. Honestly, just watch the movie and you'll see how the song is exactly about the plot. It's one of my favorite songs to perform live and happy to make it a part of this album.
I immediately started writing that same night and finished the song in about 30 minutes. Something about that FLOW STATE really gets ahold and you can't stop. I ended up recording the song in my house in San Antonio about a year later and the song Blue Valentine was born. Honestly, just watch the movie and you'll see how the song is exactly about the plot. It's one of my favorite songs to perform live and happy to make it a part of this album.
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