REVIEW: LG Nexus 4 E960: the Smartphone Apple sued Samsung Over

In this review I will attempt to dispel any infatuation with the Nexus 4 by pointing out al its flaws. Additionally in some respects, the iPhone 4 is superior to the Nexus 4. Sorry, Samsung lovers! It's time to ace reality: even though the Nexus 4 is made by LGE, it's all done with collaboration with Samsung.

Just think of Samsung as shogun and LG as one of its sub lieutenants in a fight against the usurper Apple, who entered the smartphone market late and is using legal bullying of Korean manufacturers who have been at it longer to corner its share of the market.

When the iPhone 4 came out, it had created a form factor consisting of a music player with internal battery beginning with the iPods. Now it had the fourth generation of the same idea, and was bound to get copied.

When Nexus 4 arrived, it had the following which was like iPhone 4: internal battery, option of 8 or 16 GB versions - though I think iPhone 4 comes in 8, 16 and 32 GB flavours, and thinner than iPhone.

The iPhone 4 is as thin as the Nokia 500 and Samsung GT5660 Gio — the thickness of a pack of cards.

In contrast, the Nexus 4 is thinner by a centimetres, its screen smaller than the Samsung Galaxy S3 but bigger than the Samsung Galaxy Gio and the Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE. From what I am seeing on the screen, 320 pixels per inch of viewing area is enough for a crisp view on Youtube.

However, there are exceptions to the apparent quality of being a black slab of plastic. First of all, it wouldn't stay connected with the router used at the time, a Motorola wifi router. This usually indicates that the Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 needs a reboot. Once that's done, the Nexus 4 stayed connected with the router without problems. This never happened with the iPhone 4 once.

Voice search failed to hear me. A reboot fixed that. Even though the search engine can't find my contact list, it can find stuff on Google. Oh, and I set it up not to search internally because I like pointing and clicking to find my way around my smartphone. Though I may change my mind from time to time.

Overall, the Nexus 4 is an adequate knock off of the iPhone 4. If this is what Apple was fighting with Samsung over, then Apple should have used more of the features that work better on Apple than on a Nexus 4. As a result of the outcome of the trial, all it did was convince the average person that an Android smartphone is a cheaper version of iPhone 4, which wasn't Apple's original intent in having the trial.

Sorry, Apple, you caused the confusion by making your design easy to copy. Though, another complaint I have about the Nexus 4 is that I can only move pictures I took on the Nexus 4 to my PC via MTP. I'm going to need a MTP library on my Linux to access the files on my SD card.

Suddenly the ease of use of the iPhone 4 becomes an issue: an iPhone secures your data while an Android phone leaves it wide open. Apart from that, the other features of the Nexus 4 need exploring.

Update as of December 30, 2013 at 07:09

And explore I did with my Nexus 4. Even though Google took out anti-jiggle, it has anti-jiggle of videos. One thing that is challenging my Nexus 4 is that new pictures to video Auto-awesome function in the Google Picture app. Yet that could just be a tiny flaw in Picture i.e. cannot mix GIF animated files with JPEG files.

I've also noticed problems with SUn Light's Battery Drain Analyzer Monitor when playing the Mahjong app by Canadadroid. Battery Drain Analyzer Monitor displays a different time from what Battery Solo and the systems says is the correct level. My guess is there are no clock updates when Majhong is hogging clock cycles.

Also when I switch modes more than a couple times in the Camera app, especially between HDR and flash under low-light conditions, the whole phone reboots. Looks like the camera gets confused and reboots to remind me to stick to HDR or the default mode.

Other than the two examples I have given, I have yet to brick my Nexus 4. Indeed, it is a certainty that my Nexus 4 will not be bricked. How so? Well, I sure am not going to root it!

SHK - at time new article posted as soon in Published On.

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Original post: May 26, 2013 aat 3:08 PM

Review: Epson Stylus NX130 Printer

I love bargains, and when Future Shop had dropped the price of the Epson Stylus NX130 Printer in it's daily special, nothing could stop me from getting it.

Originally when the nX130 hit the shelf at the beginning of 2013, it went for $69.99. Future Shop had already dropped the price to $59.99 before specially dropping it by $30. Over all, I paid $41 for the printer.

It's a 3-in-1 printer, meaning it's a scanner and photocopier, but being Epson, the print prints black and white very nice.

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Futurue ad for Epson Stylus NX130: http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/epson-epson-stylus-all-in-one-colour-inkjet-printer-nx-130-stylus-nx-130/10229006.aspx

Nerd Review: IPhone 4 as Video Camera

English Warning: this is a nerd review i.e. the potential for too much information overload may occur while reading portions of this review! Eyes glazing over while vaguely remembering your first encounter with a geek or nerd may occur — to prevent this, please look at the videos.

Attention: the first video has a faint recording of several women speaking either Gujarati or Hindi, or Cantonese or Mandarin. If you are able to understand either languages, then please determine which language they are speaking and the content of their chatter.

中文（简体）警告：这是一个书呆子审查，即潜在的太多信息超载可能发生，而读这篇评论的部分！同时依稀记得你第一次遇到一个怪胎或可能发生的书呆子 - 防止眼睛呆滞，请看看视频。

注意：第一视频有几个女人讲古吉拉特语或旁遮普语，粤语或普通话淡淡的记录。如果你是能够理解两种语言，那么请确定哪种语言他们说话的内容，他们的唠叨

中文（繁體）警告：這是一個書呆子審查太多信息超載的潛力，即可能發生在讀這篇評論的部分！同時依稀記得你第一次遇到一個怪胎或可能發生的書呆子 - 防止眼睛呆滯，請看看視頻。

注意：第一視頻有幾個女人講古吉拉特語或旁遮普語，粵語或普通話淡淡的記錄。如果你是能夠理解兩種語言，那麼請確定哪種語言他們說話的內容，他們的嘮叨

ગુજરાતી ચેતવણી: આ સમીક્ષા ભાગ વાંચતી વખતે ખૂબ માહિતી ભારને માટે સંભવિત એટલે કે એક nerd સમીક્ષા થઇ શકે છે! અસ્પષ્ટ એક રુચિ ધરાવો અથવા nerd આવી શકે છે સાથે તમારા પ્રથમ એન્કાઉન્ટર યાદ છે જ્યારે ઉપર આંખો ગ્લેઝિંગ - આ રોકવા માટે, વિડિઓઝ જોવા વિનંતી.

ધ્યાન છે: પ્રથમ વિડિઓ ગુજરાતી અથવા પંજાબી, અથવા કેન્ટોનીઝ અથવા મેન્ડરિન ક્યાં બોલતા અનેક મહિલાઓ એક હલકા રેકોર્ડિંગ છે. તમે ક્યાં તો ભાષા સમજવા માટે સમર્થ હોય, તો પછી તેઓ બોલતા અને તેમના પપડાટ સમાવિષ્ટ છે, જે ભાષા છે તે નક્કી કરો

हिन्दी चेतावनी: यह इस समीक्षा के अंश पढ़ने के दौरान बहुत अधिक जानकारी अधिभार के लिए क्षमता यानी एक बेवकूफ की समीक्षा होने पर हो सकती है! थोड़ा एक geek या बेवकूफ उत्पन्न हो सकता है के साथ अपनी पहली मुठभेड़ को याद करते हुए अधिक आंखें ग्लेज़िंग - इस को रोकने के लिए, वीडियो देखने कृपया.

ध्यान दें: पहला वीडियो गुजराती या पंजाबी, या केनटोनीज या मंदारिन तो बोल रहे कई महिलाओं के एक बेहोश रिकॉर्डिंग है. आप या तो भाषा को समझने में सक्षम हैं, तो वे बोल रहा है और उनके बकवास की सामग्री रहे हैं जो भाषा का निर्धारण कृपया

In this review, I'll be discussing the finer points of the use of a iPhone 4 as a video camera. At some point in the discussion, the Quicktime data of the audio and video stream of the movie may be displayed. According to Apple, display of said data may be subject to their copyright coverage. When I get the email from Apple to seize and desist, I'll let you know.

In the meantime, let's see how the iPhone works as a video camera.

First off, the video camera in the iPhone 4 is based on a 5 MP (2592 × 1936 pixels) camera but uses the 1920 x 720 format of Quicktime using the mpeg-4 standard of H264 for video and AAC for audio. This means the video is crisp and clear, and the audio quality is CD quality.

The camera is based on the backside illumination (BI) sensor made by Omnivision Technologies. This sensor makes use of wavefront coding created by radar engineer Edward Dowski and his thesis adviser Thomas Cathey at the University of Colorado in the United States in the 1990s. Because universities were yet to be business-savvy, both Dowski and Cathey formed CDM-Optics, which was acquired by Omnivision in 2005. Wavefront coding was designed to extend the depth of field of a digital imaging system such as a video camera.

As a result of the BI sensor in the iPhone 4, the video camera demonstrates extended depth of field when compared to other smartphone video cameras. However, the camera proper tends to ramp down the brightness on images focused on the sun. This makes it difficult to photograph sundogs, which helps to test camera firmware's ability to compensate properly when pointed at a very bright point of light (the sun).

Thus, the video camera is equally sensitive to low-light conditions as the camera proper but not to intense points of light such as the sun and different types of lamps. As well, to properly adapt such exceptional light conditions, the user is forced to download an app to give it the same qualities of better thought out camera optics and firmware.

Overall, the video quality displayed is more than adequate. Here is information of the file format for the Quicktime MOV format displayed by the Linux app, mediainfo:

$ mediainfo 1327386B-D90A-4115-A82C-C640CAF883F4.MOV
General
Complete name : 1327386B-D90A-4115-A82C-C640CAF883F4.MOV (Apple uses a UUID-like identifier to uniquely name each file iOS creates. My guess is this UUID becomes date and time of file creation.)
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 80.1 MiB
Duration : 1mn 3s
Overall bit rate : 10.6 Mbps
Recorded date : 2013-05-10T11:21:40-0700 (The date area is copied to converted MP4 and MPEG files, thus retaining the local and UTC date and time. it is duplicated in the Apple quicktime API information below.)
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:40
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:53 (According to this tagged date, it takes 13 seconds to tag the resulting video file.)
Writing application : 6.1.3
Writing library : Apple QuickTime
Model : iPhone 4
: +49.2045-122.8897+041.860/ (This is the GPS location of the iPhone 4 during filming of the video. It is repeated again under the Apple quicktime API information listed below.)
Make : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.make : Apple (Apple quicktime API information)
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate : 2013-05-10T11:21:40-0700
com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO : +49.2045-122.8897+041.860/
com.apple.quicktime.software : 6.1.3
com.apple.quicktime.model : iPhone 4

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 10.5 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Minimum frame rate : 28.571 fps
Maximum frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.381
Stream size : 79.6 MiB (99%)
Title : Core Media Video
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:40
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:53
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC (This is the Low Complexity version of AAC, which is technical jargon for simplest version.)
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C (Sound is recorded as thought it is front and centre.)
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 496 KiB (1%)
Title : Core Media Audio
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:40
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 18:21:53

Review: Nokia 500 Totally Locked to Mobilicity A Bad Idea

When the Nokia 500 came to Mobilicity a couple years ago, it was an entry phone for smartphone fans who can't afford Google smartphones, Apple iPhones, and especially Samsung superphones (anything associated with 4G).

Initially Mobilicity was selling Nokia 500s for $250, then $200, then $150, then $100 and when fans could afford it, they discontinued it.

Yet almost everyone who bought a Nokia 500 bitched and complained about it. First, Anna barely worked. It crashed or froze. So Belle replaced Anna, supposedly over the air, but in most cases the Nokia user needed a PC with Windows to upgrade the OS.

So much for OTA on Anna.

Me, I waited a long time when Nokia 500s were being sold by jaded smartphone fans for under $100. After picking up one for $75 CAD recently, I concur with the disappointed Nokia fans who are either iPhone fans or Android fans now: Anna is a disappointment.

It too me a week to figure out my Nokia 500 is locked to Mobilicity for life. Coming from a store that sells mid- to high-end smartphones on a prepaid contract, I'd expect better. Though it turns out now that Mobilicity has seen the light and offered unlocked phones.

The only catch here is that the phone must have the 1700 MHz band to be fully functional in their AWS network.

Theoretically, an iPhone 4 might work as a 3G phone but will be slow to refresh the browser screen. All that's missing in the HSPA bands is the 1700 MHz band in an iPhone. In iPhone 5, it has the band for GSM along with the 700 MHz band but the CDMA version unlocked will not work on a GSM network.


So GSM phones might work in Bell's network only if addition to CDMA, Bell has a GSM 3G network to augment the CDMA channels.

Enough of smartphone specifics.

A close look at Nokia 500's specifics shows that it has full HSDPA range with 1700 Mhz band. Bell's 3G+ is UTMS so the frequency bands for a Samsung i757m locked to Bell are not equivalent to a Samsung i727 locked to Rogers.

The fact that HSDPA is used in a Nokia 500 suggests that it would work on a Bell network up to 3G but not on a Rogers network.

However, HSPA+ being common to both networks, a phone with 850/1900 MHz bands will work on both networks when unlocked.

Therefore a Nokia 500 if unlocked would also work on Bell, Telus and Rogers networks.

Sadly though, Nokia 500s are locked. You'd have to beg Nokia directly for a factory reset and be prepared to pay upwards to $100.

Since this involves a credit card, I'm stuck with Mobilicity. I'll pass.

Overall, though I used the Nokia 500 as a camera when I recently visited Victoria but stopped using it when I realized that it'd be best to transfer the pictures by Bluetooth to my Samsung phone as the Nokia had no way to upload by wifi to my Google account.

This is what happens when Symbian is locked to the Nokia network. It's also why Nokia's shares are falling. Yet the ex-Nokia fanboys are bitching at Nokia rather than Microsoft, who is the real reason why Nokia never went for Android.

Overall, Nokia + Windows 8 is as proprietary as Apple and iOS. Symbian appears to reflect this old-fashioned philosophy.

But I digress.

Overall the Nokia business model is failing its investors. Sadly, their lack of understanding of both the Apple + iOS business model and the Google + Android business model is why they went with Microsoft. I can only see big gaping security holes due to Windows.

Even so, Symbian has the potential were I to sign up to nokia.com. However, I want to get Belle into this Nokia 500 before I even consider it.

Review of Rockfish RF-SPX15-T

Apologies about the poor quality of the video. I was playing around lo-fi special effects, handmade with loving care. :)

Today's review is the Rockfish RF-SPX15-T, a Bluetooth speaker that I got free in a smartphone deal with my Best Buy Mobile dealer.

Here is the speaker bonded to the iPhone 4. I make no money for this video as it has copyrighted content, so Youtube will get its 100%.

It's a great speaker and has some audio distortion at maximum volume due to the form factor. Though, distortion is relative to the environment. A bunch of party-goers won't care about the sound as much as a sober audiophile.

Though I tend to think audiophiles who think good audio can be objectively evaluated forget that psychoacoustic properties are mostly subjective.

YMMV

Review on PBS' New Asylums 2

The use of prisons as the asylums of the 21st century for the mentally ill came about after the State decided freeing the mentally ill from state hospitals and treating them in the community is cheaper than the costs of hospital maintenance, due to union wages rising since 1972.

That's when the first releases were done. From there, the State rented halfway houses from property owners to house mental health clients in an appropriate community setting.

However, a mentally ill person is treated like a possible criminal when his behavior is associated with a crime. Unfortunately, prison is bedlam when it comes to the mentally ill.

This video lacks that information, and appears to start from the second-half of the documentary itself.

Overall, I did not learn if any of the mental health clients improved as the filming progressed. IN the cases of patients who get imprisoned, the likelihood of that is rare since they have been in and out of prison for several years on petty crime charges.

My impression of prison is its use in maintaining stabilization of clients is negligable. The overall impression from this video I got was that criminally charging clients for petty crimes is not conducive to maintaining a stable environment for them.

Review of The Hunger Games

It beats the movie because the movie lacked actual diversity.

Why were the guards in the volunteer scene black?

Why are most of the tributes WASP?

In comparison you can't make books have colour because the author would have to work at it.

Ergo the book isn't as racist and sexist as the movie because it was written by a woman who was writing for young teens and middle school children (ages 10-18).

In the book, sexism was muted. However it became stereotyped by the city folk. It wasn't oppressive though.

You had to try hard to see it. Did Prim use Katniss? Was Kat using Prim?

It is obvious that the former America is still a repressive patriarchy because of the hunger games.

Currently I'm awaiting the soft cover of the next book in the trilogy to see how they defy the elite society which controls them.

I rate this book 4/5.

Review: Last Samurai

I've seen the trailers at http://lastsamurai.warnerbros.com/home.php and watched the movie.

Not a pretty thought to realize the roots of Pearl Harbor originated in Meiji Japan.

But if a Civil War veteran aided samurais from a certain coup over 100 years ago, then Japan would still be a Third World country and have been invaded by Europeans, a vassal state of say, Nazi Germany.

The Satsuma Rebellion was instigated by lesser daimyo who resented the high handedness of the Americans and their European buddies -- the barbarians at the gates were carousing, annoying the people, and preying on the citizens, enticing them into what the Japanese at the time considered immoral, especially mixed marriage, trying to get the same perks the Japanese get because they are Japanese etc. Hm... does this remind you of modern Tokyo when the tourists from Oz come and visit??

I myself believe that if my ancestors tried to retain feudal values rather than the distorted American ideals that haunt the Asians to this day in "traditional" - read old-fashioned Western values common in the mid-19th Century - the world would be a dystopia filled with dark visions of violence and bloodshed worse than the aftermath of 9/11.

So I am thankful for that Civil War vet being the adventurer he was for helping to train both sides of the conflict that almost made Japan another vassal state of America like the Philippines, which was conquered after the Spanish American War much to the disgust of Filipinos — after the rebellion in Japan failed.

Coincidence? No, rather it was destiny.

So cheer up and watch this movie if you are a Tom Cruise fan.

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originally posted on 12/08/2003 at 11:48:00 PM
reposted on 1/6/2009 at 11:48 AM
edited and posted on 20130124.1239

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (2006) - Review

I just got ahold of Amy Winehouse's 2006 album Back to Black. This is the 10-song set; it isn't the American version. All it is is the Universal Island Record Inc version.

This album comes with a song book showing her on the cover, looking a little thin but still haning in there. While the songs are missing time lengths, their copyrights are covered, though the last song, He Can Only Hold Her, had to be settled to give P*NUT credit as writer of the song.

FWIW I found Rehab to be a thumbing of the nose at drug rehabilitation. Definitely, it's not a tune to be playing at any Alcoholics Anonymous Saturday night club dance any time soon.

In You Know I'm No Good, the feeling that Amy actually came to believes in the lyrics gives me a chill.

Me and Mr Jones appears to be a thinly veiled synopsis of Winehouse's troubles with her hubby Blake. It is listenable,and danceable too.

Back to Black is a catchy tune. I've listened to the clean version a couple times, and have also heard the many uncut versions sang during her 2007 tour in Europe and in the US. It's with this song that she's gone from jazz and R'n'B to adult blues a la Billie Holliday.

In Love is a Losing Game, we get more of Amy's melancholy, which could be the side effect of alcoholism.

Tear Dry On Their Own is another melancholic song.

Wake Up Alone is a great melody. Obviously it's a song about her missing Blake.

Some Unholy War basically is Amy and Blake against the naysayers.

Finally, completing this set is the hotly contested He Can Only Hold Her, which originated as a demo by P*NUT. In the album, credit is given to him but no co-writing credits were added. Amy even thanked him, but because these lyrics are mainly his, P*NUT sued and got those co-writer credits.

Overall, Back to Black shows the power of reality in inspiring the creativity of a potentially great singer. Sadly though, the drug scandals are not doing her a lot of good.

As for now, I've yet to hear hide and hair of Amy Winehouse. Yet having her all her songs on this album, complete with uncut versions of Back to Black, I am giving her credit.

Review: Meg & Dia - If you're poor, find something to sue somebody for

Angels never sang more beautifully than these two, Meg and Dia.

Each song speaks of adventures that cross back and forth across America, east to west, and north to south.

For these two bring to life the inner world other girls keep locked inside.

Cardigan Weather is a lively melody, but Lessons in New Jersey sounds almost like they were inspired by JPOP and added their own lyrics to it.

Monster is lively, too.

But Suddenly Sunday blew me away.

Strawberry Waltz again brought to life something out of their imagination, and Santa Barbara ended it all nicely.

Overall, a great album.

Your English Is Good - Tokyo Police Club

Oh, give us your vote
Give us your vote
If you know what's good for you

Oh, give us your vote
Give us your vote
If you know what's good for you

These are the lines
That we straighten every year
And it's the second time
They mapped the constillations

And they sift for you by night
In the depth ...
Still trying to find stripes
Injustice is my middle name

''cause you dont need to change
Your future is with us
You dont need to change
Your future is with us

You look a wreck
Left your key inside the door
And my ripple chest
Across this black and white chess board

Your English is good
We can see it in your bones
In this neighbourhood
We 'aint driving you home

''cause you dont need to change
Your future is with us
You dont need to change
Your future is with us

Oh, give us your vote
Give us your vote

Your English is good
Your English is good

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Your English Is Good sounds more like a commentary on the federal Liberals getting into power due to the vote from the immigrant block, which guaranteed their win. Though, most of the immigrants had no idea who they were voting for. It's commentary on multiculturalism and the refrain of "Your English is good" is patronizing, as though Big Brother knows what is good for immigrants.

(Through the) Monsoon

I'm staring at a broken door,
There's nothing left here anymore.
My room is cold,
It's making me insane.

I've been waiting here so long,
Another moment seems to 've come,
I see the dark clouds coming up again.

CHORUS
Running through the monsoon,
Beyond the world,
To the end of time,
Where the rain won't hurt

Fighting the storm,
Into the blue,
And when I lose myself I think of you,
Together we'll be running somewhere new…

Through the monsoon.
Just me and you.

A half moon's fading from my sight,
I see your vision in its light.
But now it's gone and left me so alone

I know I have to find you now,
Can hear your name, I don't know how.
Why can't we make this darkness feel like home?

CHORUS
Running through the monsoon,
Beyond the world,
To the end of time,
Where the rain won't hurt

Fighting the storm,
Into the blue,
And when I lose myself I think of you,
Together we'll be running somewhere new…
And nothing can hold me back from you.

Through the monsoon. Hey! MUSIC Hey!

BRIDGE
I'm fighting all this power,
Coming in my way
Let it take me straight to you,
I'll be running night and day.

I'll be with you soon…
Just me and you.

We'll be there soon…
So soon.

CHORUS
Running through the monsoon,
Beyond the world,
To the end of time,
Where the rain won't hurt

Fighting the storm,
Into the blue,
And when I lose myself I think of you,
Together we'll be running somewhere new…
And nothing can hold me back from you.

Through the monsoon.
Through the monsoon.
Just me and you.
Through the monsoon.
Just me and you.

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Monsoon sounds like a dark love song, as an escape from the adolescent years which are represented by the word, "monsoon." In it, the singer as narrator wishes to run away with someone else, a love interest or best friend. What's hinted at is a vague romantic relationship. In a sense, one may believe this to be an escape also from childhood into adulthood. However, the destination is not mentioned, just the storm of adolescence.