Open Season - High Highs
Open Season is a song I always feel like I forget about, but when I rediscover it, all emotions related to autumn come flooding back to me. This song to me is walking down a trail while the trees turn to the brown and reds I’ve come to crave every year when September hits. This song is fall. I don’t know how else to put it. The guitar, the light vocals--it’s perfect.
The way I found this song was by watching my favorite movie, Pitch Perfect. I think when Pitch Perfect came out, I was about 8 years old, and I remember my family went to go see it in the theater and my dad was laughing so hard the whole time. Obviously being 8 years old, I didn’t understand a lot of the jokes, but the musical impact the movie had on me was insane. I literally went home and started to make my own mashups in my music notebook and had my friends over to try to teach them my a capella compositions that made absolutely no sense. Pitch Perfect might be my favorite movie because of this memory. I became so excited about music and performing music after watching this movie, and it continues to excited me since I now am in an a capella group in college. It quite literally is structured like pitch perfect. And I love it.
Essentially when this song played in the movie, Beca (Anna Kendrick) is like exiled from the group and its a whole montage of what every character is doing post failure at their regional competition. The song is like perfect for a montage, which might be why I love it so much for fall. Walking around Michigan in the fall requires montage music. It’s so scenic, I can’t imagine not associated music with fall. Michigan in the fall is beautiful and Open Season compliments the season so well.
