What’s in a Song?
I don’t look nearly as dramatic as her.
There are infinite reasons for appreciating a song. In my experience, I’ve liked songs simply because of who it reminds me of, who suggested it to me, where I heard it, or who I heard singing it. I might enjoy just the heavy beat, the interesting music video, or the contagious and infectious catchiness.
Music represents an endless amount of ideas, and there exists a song for every mod. It can immediately add emotion and drama to any situation; it has the tendency to sooth or anger, relax or excite.
Everyone has a unique music taste of their own. You wouldn’t be able to distinguish my particular music taste just from listening to one song on my playlist, simply because I don’t think I can be defined accurately and completely with just a single song.
Music reminds me of my childhood, because there are honestly some songs out there that Ilike, but don’t know why. There are other songs that have never truly left my “favorites queue,” that I have yet to tire of.
You can dance to music; you can jump around and sing to it.
Music is used to promote, and to advertise. We use it to get revenge on others through lyrics, to express emotion, and to connect with other people of similar appreciative tastes and opinions.
What’s in an orchestra? A band, a chorus? A violin, an electric guitar, or a triangle? We wouldn’t have some of our greatest role models if instruments and music groups hadn’t been conceptualized and created over people’s mutual love of music.
Some people are just natural born performers, while others should be confined to their shower.
It’s as if you’ve taken your favorite lines of poetry, set them to a beat, and added a tune, et voila, you have a song.
It blows my mind to imagine music as an inspiration for a revolution. Of course, no one has ever stood on a podium and yelled to a crowd, “FOR THE LOVE OF DUBSTEP!” and started a massive mindset shift towards electronic dance music. What I mean by this is that some pieces have been for influential and moving that people become motivated to fight for what they believe in, and what they want. Astounding to me is the influence that people like Justin Bieber and Harry Styles can hold, because…yeah.
On the other hand, look to the Haiti earthquake in 2010. The remake of “We are the world” raised awareness of the destruction, and motivation to make donations and do service work.
In 2011, a devastating tsunami struck Japan, and a charity compilation album, “Songs for Japan,” raised over five million dollars.
Live performances are a great way for people to congregate and bond over mutual interests, because the performer knows the music backwards and forwards, sweating and crying whilst giving their best performance. It’s as if you are looking the artist/composer/singer/performer full in the face; they can’t hide behind the studio window, buried under hours of remixing and auto-tuning.
One of many of my favorite music genres is dubstep*. It’s music centered around the bass, which draws on many musical influences such as techno and reggae. Quality dubstep is just phenomenal, because no one looks cooler than someone with a big pair of headphones, dramatically bobbing their head up and down as they listen to the epic bass drum of dubstep. Whilst listening to said “dubstep,” you can’t just turn the volume down to “barely audible” and expect to receive the whole experience of what my love of dubstep is founded upon.
I used to think that I would be able to sleep to dubstep, and I did for a while. My daydreams mutated into bizarre hallucinations during the day hours, and my night dreams transformed into extraordinary illusions. The experience was…surreal.
I dramatically nod my head up and down with an obnoxiously big set of headphones, with dubstep banging in my eardrums like a raging animal. The entire experience is complete.
Ear buds are just ho-hum; if you want the full dubstep experience, you need to chuck those little ear buds out and go get yourself a quality pair of headphones.
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*Warning: this recently emerged music genre is NOT for the light of heart.
Catherine Zhang 
What an interesting post. I have never heard of dubstep and considering my age perhaps it’s best if I give it a wide berth! LOL But I do LOVE music. Someone asked me just yesterday what kind of music I like and I said, I honestly couldn’t say one type. If you got hold of my iPOD, there’s such a mish mash on there, I reckon at least 8 or 9 different genres.
And I love music for different reasons –
1. Sometimes there is nothing more exquisite than the right piece of hauntingly beautiful classical music or opera to transport you to another level of consciousness. It just lifts you up so you’re floating on clouds.
2. Exercise – I *must* have music when I exercise. Hypothetically speaking, I could probably exercise without it, but I would never even try unless forced to. And I have different music for different types of exercise. One playlist for running or marital arts, another for yoga, etc.
3. Dancing – I LOVE to dance. So that requires precisely the right songs with, yes, the right BASS. I don’t need it to be very loud, but when you dance, you dance to the bass. A lot of people don’t know that, but some people can “feel” the base in their body and move in time with it automatically, and others can’t. I don’t why, but that’s a big reason why some people can dance and others can’t. So fast music with a good bass is essential for when I feel like dancing.
4. Finally – singing! I used to be a good singer but then I got bronchitis three times in three years and it has damaged my vocal chords. My falsetto comes and goes but otherwise I can still sing quite well and that requires a whole different set of songs, the ones that I am able to sing basically.
5. I forgot one! I have only ever made 2 videos (they’re on my blog way back at the beginning when it was new) and it was SO, SO important to me to choose the right music for those videos. Now, I know that some people will probably hate the music that I chose, but they’re *my* videos and to create them and add the music which sets the mood just the way I wanted it, was a really magical and fulfilling experience.
So yes, music, songs … what would we do without them? The world would be missing something.
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you don’t like justin bieber or one direction?
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