I don’t think anything makes me feel the way music does.
I climb into my car for work at 8am and lose myself in the beat and the lyrics. They take away the sleepy fog of my morning and transform me in a way coffee can’t even do at that hour… and I love my coffee.
It’s what I describe as my “blackout”. When I get in the car and lose myself in the music I feel like I’m driving on autopilot, just going through the motions but not conscious in the moment. However my thoughts are very conscious.
Music has a way of making me think. I feel happiness from past memories or feel a desire from daydreaming about things I want to happen in the future. Music also has the power to bring back things that hurt. However, I don’t listen to sad songs to resurface those memories. Sometimes they surface from a different angle and my perspective has changed on the memory because of the notes touched on in the song or the way the lyrics made pain sound less painful.
Perhaps the most wonderful thing that music does is the way it brings a smile to my face, a sense of confidence, and swell of happiness. It fixes bad days, brings emphasis to good days, and teaches you things along the way. The introspection is my personal favorite. I have a tendency to feel passionate about many things in my life and when I try to talk about them I feel like words are never enough. Then I hear a song that highlights exactly how I feel and it ceases to amaze me how an artist was capable of demonstrating such feelings into words in the most beautiful way when I can hardly string together a sentence about how I feel. I think Ed Sheeran is the best example of this. The man hasn’t written a song that I don’t love. He makes it feel effortless and yet encompasses so much meaning into a 3-minute song.
Then. Oh then. There are those songs that come on and all of a sudden you’ve lost control of your legs and your hips start moving and vibing with the beat of the music and now your arms are going too. The kind of beat that makes you lose all control and don’t care how crazy you look because it just feels so good to feel the bass pump through you. For me, that song would be “Get Low” by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz. I can’t explain it, but when this song comes on my Pandora or through the speakers at the bar, someone better 1- expect a good laugh at my expense as I dance in my car or 2- hold my drink at the bar cause you can believe I’m going to dance 'til the last second of this one.
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." -Bob Marley
~ LD
I climb into my car for work at 8am and lose myself in the beat and the lyrics. They take away the sleepy fog of my morning and transform me in a way coffee can’t even do at that hour… and I love my coffee.
It’s what I describe as my “blackout”. When I get in the car and lose myself in the music I feel like I’m driving on autopilot, just going through the motions but not conscious in the moment. However my thoughts are very conscious.
Music has a way of making me think. I feel happiness from past memories or feel a desire from daydreaming about things I want to happen in the future. Music also has the power to bring back things that hurt. However, I don’t listen to sad songs to resurface those memories. Sometimes they surface from a different angle and my perspective has changed on the memory because of the notes touched on in the song or the way the lyrics made pain sound less painful.
Perhaps the most wonderful thing that music does is the way it brings a smile to my face, a sense of confidence, and swell of happiness. It fixes bad days, brings emphasis to good days, and teaches you things along the way. The introspection is my personal favorite. I have a tendency to feel passionate about many things in my life and when I try to talk about them I feel like words are never enough. Then I hear a song that highlights exactly how I feel and it ceases to amaze me how an artist was capable of demonstrating such feelings into words in the most beautiful way when I can hardly string together a sentence about how I feel. I think Ed Sheeran is the best example of this. The man hasn’t written a song that I don’t love. He makes it feel effortless and yet encompasses so much meaning into a 3-minute song.
Then. Oh then. There are those songs that come on and all of a sudden you’ve lost control of your legs and your hips start moving and vibing with the beat of the music and now your arms are going too. The kind of beat that makes you lose all control and don’t care how crazy you look because it just feels so good to feel the bass pump through you. For me, that song would be “Get Low” by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz. I can’t explain it, but when this song comes on my Pandora or through the speakers at the bar, someone better 1- expect a good laugh at my expense as I dance in my car or 2- hold my drink at the bar cause you can believe I’m going to dance 'til the last second of this one.
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." -Bob Marley
~ LD