I think that I gravitate towards certain kinds of music
because music has the ability to either change my mood, or amplify my mood. Sometimes
when I’m upset, I find that listening to sad music always makes me feel worse even
though I try to justify it by telling myself that relating to the lyrics in the
song will help me feel better. I know that changing the kind of music that I
listen to when I’m sad always helps me feel better eventually but in the
beginning, it always seems annoying to me although I know that after a while,
everything will be a lot better. I think I dislike certain types of music
because they seem discriminatory or they sing about things that don’t matter. I've
always been the kind of person that listens to music that I can relate to and
not being able to relate to music has always turned me away from that style or
artist. Once I dislike an artist, I end up hating all of their songs even if they
completely change everything about their music. I do think that my parents have
an influence on the kind of music I listen to because I still go through phases
where I listen to Frank Sinatra or Elvis. My parents have always listened to
older music (I guess that’s because they are older than me). When it comes to
my friends, I have friends that don’t listen to the same music as me at all,
and then I have friends who listen to the same exact kind of music I listen to
and then I also have friends who are somewhere in the middle. I like having a mixture of friends and their
music taste because I can always discover new music through them even if I end
up not liking it. I think that discovering new music and falling in love with
an album or an artist is one of the best feelings in the world. Without music,
my life would have no purpose (how cliché). I know for a fact that music is the
most important thing to me because it has always found the words when I seemed
to have forgotten what to say. My life without music is something that I never
want to think about because I don’t think I would ever want to be alive to experience
that.
I like this: "Music is the most important thing to me because it has always found the words when I seemed to have forgotten what to say." And I know what you mean about indulging in sad songs when I'm sad, full well knowing it's just going to pull me farther down.
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