A Review of Meet the Moonlight by Jack Johnson
Music is and has always been a diversity of emotions I had no idea I carried. I enjoy music that is uplifting, useful, and exciting to listen to. Artists are continuing to make art that is new and alive. I feel a new connection to the music of this day and will continue to let Apple Music pick my favorite artists of the day. As of yesterday, I started listening to the couple of songs Jack Johnson released from his new album Meet the Moonlight.
This sound is met with spontaneity to get you up in the middle of the night, start a fire, and watch the moon in your backyard. It seems Jack Johnson is playing in front of a fire, late at night, speaking wisdom about love and beauty. “Do not miss chances to follow love,” he says. Be aware of all the loves in life and take advantage of following that to the end. Stay right here. Do not miss the chance. “You can meet the moonlight any night you really wanna.” “Do not let anybody say it’s too hard.” The moon is constant. Do not let yourself miss the moonlight. It seems the lyrics will be easy to process with the easy guitar sounds, but he has a truth hidden in this song. Easy music to play in the backyard with friends taking in the night sky. This is not all we can gather about moonlight, there is much more.
The moonlight signals organisms, in ecosystems including corals off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, to spawn. This spawning process releases eggs and sperm to bundle together in a dance of colors in the ocean. Oren Levy witnessed this phenomenon, in 2005, he was near Heron Island. Corals suddenly wake up to the moonlight starting their biological systems and reproducing. I wish I could have witnessed the sheer beauty of this. The world of the ocean regulates reproduction just from the moonlight. Another example of the power of the moonlight is the biological clock it gives to organisms. For some aquatic organisms, the moonlight is just as important as the sunlight signaling speeding up or slowing down.
The moonlight is celebrated and continues to enthrall our views of its hidden character in the midst of the sun. Our culture has shaped moonlight as a symbol of mystery and stories. The moonlight does not emit rising temperatures as the sunlight does. A symbol of peace and tranquility.
You can find the full article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-moonlight-sets-nature-rhythms-180963778/
I now see how Jack Johnson is able to write a song describing the truth around moonlight and the way we see it in all its beauty.
