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The Importance of Music

No matter what mood you’re in, there’s a song for you.  Maybe you’re sad because your significant other broke up with you or maybe you’re nervous for a big presentation.  Whatever it is, someone has wrote a song about it that you can connect with to make yourself feel a little better.  In my case that’s how I’ve gotten to the point I am now and why I am devoting this whole blog to music.

                My obsession with music started when I was born into a family that revolved around it.  My dad is the lead singer for a band here in Saginaw called Sinister Footwear.  With this being said I was destine to love rock music.  It was normal as a child to listen to the Revolver album on the way up north or to go see Alice Cooper at some concert venue with my parents.  As I got older I began to explore different genres of music other than rock.  I am proud to say my music taste includes things from The Who to One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer to Blink 182 and even extends to a few local bands like Forest Green and Operation 13.  It shouldn’t matter the Genre of music but the Quality of the message and the amount of work put in.

My sister has always been about facts.  She will be able to remember the exact date an album came out or how many number one singles a band had. But to me music is about what the person’s message is.  It’s always been about what lyrics and the feeling of the melody.  Someone poured their feelings and heart into something. My favorite thing about music is being able to feel the devotion others put into it.  If I have the ability to connect with what is being compelled by the writer then they really have reached success.

Music is one of the only things in life that is constant and reliable.  The dependence people place upon music is so heavy that it acts as almost a psychiatrist.   There is a song that you can connect with in any thing you’re feeling so inevitably you’re reminded that someone else went through the same thing.   To be able to connect with someone without even talking to them is such an important thing and that’s what keeps people hooked.  Music creates a momentary escape from problems in the world and sometimes that’s really all we need.