article Backstage Intro: Meet Matthew! in The Blog Vault https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/ba-p/1387193 <P><BR /><BR /></P> <CENTER> <TABLE style="background: #ffffff; width: 473px; border: 0px; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 2px #888; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 2px#888; box-shadow: 0 0 2px #888;" border="0" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="8" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <TBODY style="border: 0px;"> <TR> <TD style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 14px 14px 14px; font-size: 14px;"><CENTER style="font-size: 14px;"></CENTER> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><EM>&nbsp;</EM></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <CENTER><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Backstage-pass.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29824iDC3C85FB87C33440/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Backstage-pass.png" alt="Backstage-pass.png" /></span></EM></CENTER> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN style="font-size: 14px;"><STRONG><EM>Our&nbsp;<A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Announcements/Introducing-the-Spotify-Community-Rock-Star-Program/m-p/580948#M3753" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Community Rock Stars</A>&nbsp;can submit blog posts to be published on the Spotify Community Blog. To find out more about the <A href="https://community.spotify.com/spotify/attachments/spotify/spotifyct/2952/4/RSPJan2015.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rock Star Program click here.</A></EM></STRONG><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><STRONG>Hey there, <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1025111">@mapuya19</a>&nbsp;(Rock Star)! Tell us something about yourself.</STRONG></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">Hello!&nbsp;<SPAN>I'm a going to a sophomore in high school this upcoming school year. I'm also an anime and manga fan, a tech geek, &nbsp;a gamer, an audiophile, and a comic geek. Somehow I manage to keep up with all that while being a Spotify Community Rock Star. I also built my computer last year in August, and that was a lot of fun. Probably the achievement I'm most proud of.</SPAN></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="Slack for iOS Upload.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39743i9839B4F1FB74BDF6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Slack for iOS Upload.jpg" alt="Slack for iOS Upload.jpg" /></span><STRONG>So, what kind of music are you into?</STRONG></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN> I'm really into EDM, Pop Punk, Pop, and J-Pop. Yeah, it's all over the place. I started listening to EDM back in 2013 thanks to Spotify. It all started with "<A href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5kC6r4q71XMzsuLAYesseb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You - Tiësto vs. Twoloud Radio Edit</A>" by <A href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sTQVOfp9vEMCemLw50sbu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Galantis</A>. As for pop and pop punk, I pretty much grew up surrounded by that stuff, and I just got back into <A href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6FBDaR13swtiWwGhX1WQsP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blink-182</A>. Now, with J-Pop, it's just really anime music and some other tunes. I don't understand all of the lyrics, but at least they sound really good to me.</SPAN></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><STRONG>What album would you listen to if you could only choose for the rest of your life, and why?</STRONG></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN>Hmm, that's a hard one. I've been enjoying the album <A href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5hchtJ6859VJ38c0bc5R0S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Endless Fantasy</A>&nbsp;by <A href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UwJRAgSOi1zcLkvUNc8XL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anamanaguchi</A> lately, so probably that one. I really love the "8-bit" retro feel to it. I can listen to it in almost any situation. If I'm doing homework and want some background music, it fits right in. If I want some music to get me hyped up for a Counter Strike: Global Offensive match or a League of Legends match, I can go right ahead play some <A href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UwJRAgSOi1zcLkvUNc8XL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anamanaguchi</A>.</SPAN></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><STRONG>Name five movies with the best soundtracks you can think of!</STRONG></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN> I really enjoyed the music in <A href="https://open.spotify.com/user/curlyg18/playlist/0wEx1P0ka79accwKSViCeW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist</A>, Rocket Science, <A href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2qvA7HmSg1iM6XMiFF76dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inception</A>, and <A href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5tQgsMtLtmoLsyzRuYd74C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Giver</A>. Oh, and I can't forget <A href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5B4sJsb4dTCJ0JUcZTULfn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Pilgrim vs. The World</A>. That movie's soundtrack was by <A href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UwJRAgSOi1zcLkvUNc8XL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anamanaguchi</A> as well, with their signature "8-bit" retro sound. <A href="https://open.spotify.com/user/curlyg18/playlist/0wEx1P0ka79accwKSViCeW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist</A> had a nice uplifting and somewhat adventurous feel to it. I even used the main theme of that movie for the intro into one of my school's plays since I was the sound designer for it. <A href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2qvA7HmSg1iM6XMiFF76dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inception's</A> soundtrack really immersed me into the dream sequences, and I still listen to that soundtrack to this day when I want to make looking out of the car window really dramatic.</SPAN></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><STRONG>Thanks for taking your time to chat with us. Before we go, what joke always makes you laugh?</STRONG></P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">One of the best jokes I've ever heard is from Reddit. "If you're ever cold, go to a corner. It's usually 90 degrees."</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <CENTER><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screen Shot 2016-03-03 at 2.43.49 PM.png" style="width: 207px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/34334i1F5B71686F79891F/image-dimensions/207x186?v=v2" width="207" height="186" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2016-03-03 at 2.43.49 PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-03-03 at 2.43.49 PM.png" /></span></CENTER> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P style="font-size: 14px;"><EM>&nbsp;</EM></P> <CENTER style="font-size: 14px;"> <P><EM>&nbsp;</EM></P> <P><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;</EM></P> <EM>&nbsp;</EM></CENTER></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:58:29 GMT MichaelW 2021-12-31T07:58:29Z Backstage Intro: Meet Matthew! https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/ba-p/1387193 <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Backstage-pass.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27966iF7D5FBE9B0AD3E9E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Backstage-pass.png" alt="Backstage-pass.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:58:29 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/ba-p/1387193 MichaelW 2021-12-31T07:58:29Z Re: Backstage Intro: Meet Matthew! https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1388514#M5269 <P>Hahah nice interview! Laughed at the end;)</P> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:51:36 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1388514#M5269 tomasrex 2016-07-07T10:51:36Z Re: Backstage Intro: Meet Matthew! https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1389131#M5270 <P>Nice interview <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/849693">@MichaelW</a> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😄</span> Nice meeting you Matthew <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1025111">@mapuya19</a> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":waving_hand:">👋</span></P> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:42:24 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1389131#M5270 KatesHere 2016-07-07T23:42:24Z Re: Backstage Intro: Meet Matthew! https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1392402#M5271 <P>Great soundtrack choices! Nice meeting you&nbsp;<a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1025111">@mapuya19</a>&nbsp;<span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:20:20 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/Backstage-Intro-Meet-Matthew/bc-p/1392402#M5271 Rorey 2016-07-12T09:20:20Z