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Project Name: The Songs That Saved Your Life
Asking For: $25,000 on Kickstarter
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Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $10,864
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 26
Description: The power of music is well-known, but every once in a while, it is refreshing to see a series that dives into the world of auditory bliss and attempts to explains what it is that makes us love our favorite tunes. That mission can be applied to The Songs That Saved Your Life, a planned web series seeking funds on Kickstarter.
The man behind The Songs That Saved Your Life is Drew Newkirk, and he wants to explore the powerful spark that emerges when we hear a resonant lyric or feel a particular melody affecting us. To best appreciate this subject, Newkirk will interview a series of guests and ask them about their lowest points. How did they feel then? Which songs raised them back up? These are topics we can expect to see in each episode.
The hope is to create a heartfelt series that goes deep with its subjects in a way other conversations cannot. “Before people go to a therapist when they’re hurting,” explains Newkirk in his project’s pitch video, “they often go to music.”
Creator Bio: Newkirk is a licensed psychotherapist based in Manhattan. Throughout his series, he will bring in insights from his profession to accompany the stories of his guests.
Best Perk: To best appreciate this web series, viewers are going to have to listen to the songs it profiles, preferably over and over again in exhaustive detail. For that reason, the $30 perk–a CD featuring the first season’s soundtrack–is a worthwhile investment.
Why You Should Fund It: The word “heartwarming” gets tossed around a lot these days, perhaps without always being earned, but what better way to describe the emotion Newkirk and his team are trying to inspire within their viewers? This isn’t just a web series for music lovers; it’s a web series about depression, about what makes us feel down and what we can do to pick ourselves back up. On the surface, the stories of Newkirk’s subjects figure to carry plenty of emotional heft; below that, viewers who want to understand their own psyches can use this series–and the songs it brings up–as a partial guide.
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