Me and My Music

Here is a little bit about me and my music. I grew up listening to a lot of different kinds of music. On my way to preschool with my mom would play to 70’s and 80’s music, once I got an mp3 player I downloaded my own music which consisted of mostly kids bop and songs from my favorite tv shows. Once my parents got divorced my dad started listening to a lot of Christian music on the radio and we even went to some concerts. My mom didn’t listen to music as much as she got older but when she did it was the same old school songs as when I was younger.

Most of the time we went on vacation to the Frio river and all anyone every played their was country music. I usually didn’t know half the songs but once we got back home I went through a phase of only listening to Carrie Underwood. I got sick of country music pretty fast and stated listening to the more popular radio stations that played all the current pop songs everyone was listening to. After that I started listening to rap, but I got bored of that pretty quick too. One of my best friends showed me some alternative bands like Panic At The Disco! and Fall Out Boy and I was hooked. I got the alternative radio on Pandora but overtime rock songs that I really liked kept popping up. that lead to me listening to hard rock and then screamo lmao.

That’s about where I am now though, listening to hard rock, screamo and the occasional old rock and roll bands. I’m pretty happy with my music and even started listening to alternative and rap a lot more. I think finding our own individual music styles is important and keeps us happy.

The Music in Life

Music is found in different places for everyone, for some its the radio in their car, the band playing at the local bar, the choir at church or the little screen in their pocket. I mostly listen to music on my phone. I think people of all ages and from places all around the world can at least appreciate the art of music.

My math teacher told me once that the reason we like music is because of a mathematical rhythm of some sort that our brains are attracted to. I think the internet also told me once that our heart copies the beat of the music we’re listening to and that’s why we like it. To be honest I have no idea if either of these statements are true or not, but either way I don’t care to look into it. I think the reason we like music is because it makes us happy, that’s all. Any song we listen to; sad, happy, mad we’re usually listening to because we feel the same way and it helps us feel understood. As humans all we really want is to be understood and with millions and millions of songs out their at least a few of them are guaranteed to relate to us one way or another. Sometimes music can describe the feelings that we can’t and that’s pretty cool.

I myself can honestly say that music has helped me through so much and its something I couldn’t see myself without. I think music can be found everywhere you just have to look for it.