A huge congratulations to Breaking Benjamin, whose 2004 single Blow Me Away, which was part of the
Halo 2 video game soundtrack, has officially been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The band, who formed in 1999 in Pennsylvania and last released their sixth album,
Ember, in 2018, are no strangers to this incredible achievement. This latest feat brings Breaking Benjamin s platinum tally to eight, comprised of a mix of album and single certifications for excess of one million unit equivalents.
By the time Blow Me Away was released in late 2004 on the popular video game sequel s soundtrack, Breaking Benjamin had already received a gold certification for their
The major labels and the industry’s two most important trade organizations will no longer donate to the Republican legislators who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election.
Dystopia Now! â Surveillance Through Vaccine Certificates, Digital IDs, And Biometric Data
Published: January 18, 2021
With the pandemic, the “digital transformation” that so many analysts have been referring to for years, without being exactly sure what it meant, has found its catalyst. One major effect of confinement will be the expansion and progression of the digital world in a decisive and often permanent manner.
– Klaus Schwab, COVID-19: The Great Reset (p. 153)
No matter the origin or true lethality of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus pandemic has been utilized to implement broader agendas that have been planned well in advance. One of the motivations for declaring a global pandemic was to make possible the widespread usage of new technology such as facial recognition, digital IDs and payment systems, mRNA vaccines and vaccine certificates. This is openly stated in books such as
50 Famously Misheard and Misunderstood Song Lyrics, Explained
By Madison Troyer, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 10:00 AM EST
The word
mondegreen is defined as a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, incorrect. The term was coined in a November 1954
Harper s Bazaar piece, where the author, Sylvia Wright, recalled a childhood mishearing. According to the author, when she was young her mother would read to her from a book called
Reliques of Ancient Verse. Her favorite poem from the 1765 book went like this: Ye Highland and Ye Lowlands / Oh where have you been? / They have slain the Earl o Moray / And laid him on the green. Wright, however, heard the last line as And Lady Mondegreen.