Another Brick in the Wall
How Systems Shape Us — and How Color Pushes Back
If March asked us to sit with feeling,
April asks us to notice what’s been built around it.
Some songs don’t ask questions — they expose structures.
Another Brick in the Wall does exactly that. Not loudly at first. Not all at once. It reveals itself through repetition, through tension, through the slow realization that what feels normal might not be healthy at all.
This isn’t a song about rebellion for the sake of rebellion.
It’s about accumulation.
Small moments. Quiet pressures. Expectations that don’t look harmful on their own — until they stack. Each one another layer, another habit, another silence. Another brick.
Where Somebody to Love opened itself in vulnerability, this song turns inward and asks something harder:
What have we learned to accept without questioning?
From Connection to Construction
March lived in longing — in the ache of wanting to be seen, held, understood. The blues deepened, emotions layered, and everything slowed down just enough to feel real.
April doesn’t rush either.
But it shifts.
This is where feeling meets structure.
Where emotion runs into systems — education, authority, expectations — and begins to press back.
The color story follows that tension.
A moody teal base anchors April’s palette — steady, cool, and thoughtful. It carries weight without feeling heavy. Across that surface, splashes of blue break through in varying tones: some deeper and inky, others brighter and more electric. They don’t overwhelm the teal — they interrupt it.
These blues are movement.
Resistance.
Individuality asserting itself inside something larger.
Nothing here is flat. Nothing is accidental.
Where April Lives on the Spectrum
If March was about becoming,
April is about awareness.
This is the moment on the spectrum where things start to sharpen — not into answers, but into understanding. Where we recognize patterns. Where we notice the walls we didn’t realize we were building.
Teal sits between blue and green — between emotion and growth. It’s a bridge color. A pause. A place where reflection happens before change.
This colorway doesn’t shout.
It hums.
It lingers.
It asks you to look again.
Why This Story Matters Now
Another Brick in the Wall reminds us that systems don’t just shape societies — they shape people. Creativity dulls when it’s not protected. Curiosity fades when it’s punished. Expression shrinks when conformity is rewarded.
But the song also reminds us of something else:
Awareness is the first crack.
April’s colorway carries that idea forward. The teal holds the structure. The blues refuse to disappear into it. Together, they exist in tension — not broken, not resolved, but very much alive.
And just like the spectrum itself, this story doesn’t end here.
Each month adds weight.
Each color remembers the last.
Each feeling builds — not into a wall, but into something more honest, more intentional, more human.
A Note Before We Go
April is about noticing.
About questioning what’s been normalized.
About recognizing where you still have room to move, to speak, to create.
The spectrum keeps unfolding — layer by layer.
Ross 💙
