Friday, March 4, 2016


What music do you like? A rather forward question, one I don't expect people to actually give me an answer on in the comment section, but this question has a purpose. 


I have found myself liking a variety of songs (excluding those of the scream-o genre. If you like that musical genre, I apologize if my saying I dislike it offends you), for either the catchy beat, the tones underlying in them, a mixture of both, or because those songs just ... speak to me? Weird and slightly crazy, huh? Well, I dunno, it makes sense to me. 


Music is a form of expression, a different form of freedom of speech, like how art is freedom of creative thinking, how I like to think of the two as. We go about denying things, either because we'll be facing aggressive nay-sayers, we have doubts of what we're feeling, or just because. It's the same with our feelings in that we don't generally like telling people what's the problem if there is one, because we just don't have the right words to say. 

Let me start by saying this: I've listened to a lot of songs so I think I might know a thing or two about what I'm about to tell you all. There's a song for almost everything in life. There's songs for the broken hearts out there, songs for fixing depression and about depression, there are songs for the angry and hurting people, too. Then there are songs for expressing other things, like the happy in life; songs about love, for those feeling love, and the like. 


If you have a favorite musical genre, than maybe it's because that certain specific genre is just saying the things you know you'll never be able to find the right words to say? That's what I feel about the songs I listen to ... They'll always be saying what I never will be able to. And it's okay to have more than one favorite musical genre, to dislike a musical genre. Music is, after all, freedom of speech in a different form, and we won't always like what's being said. 


So what's your favorite type of music?  

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