Oops I Did It Again-Britney Spears
Staying Alive-Bee Gees
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Oddly enough the titles of the songs could illustrate every aspect by title alone.
I love music, but my life is not based on song and I don't keep trails of my life through song. I am a music junky because of how music makes me feel at all crossroads of life, all immaterial moments of my life. The way the guitars go, the way the drums are hit, the way the vocals go. The lyrics can be a great part of it as well.
As being that sage that shows my life...yea that is not what music means to me. Plus the songs that I could use for various aspects of my life just range so much but they don't give a timeline of events in my life.
If I listened to music as many here do, I wouldn't be able to listen to my all time favorites. I came on to Opeth when I was with my ex-fiancee(pre-proposal). That band is too good to give up listening because of the time I found the band out. I got my last ex into Opeth by introducing her to them, and she even got one of their old albums...again, no reason to get rid of Opeth because we busted. Songs by Days of the New off the Yellow album remind me of my struggle with my father and mentally I am so exasperated with that issue that if I listened to music in the manner that others do, I would abandon one of my all time favorites all over what...a complicated relationship with my father? There are song by them that also speak to my history with faith/belief/disbelief/lack of faith.
It is really hard for me to pinpoint this down. Music is my greatest and most sober escape because I can respond neutral to it as compared to writing which my bias will always come out and drinking my bias will always come out because of intoxication, so beyond just keeping my mouth shut, music is my greatest escape. I will typically go to great lengths of listening to a range of music when I am stressed and it helps to calm me down so I can be bias. If I am celebrating, I find music that fits the mood and it intensifies the moment. Also I lust in the feeling of how music, in regards to the sounds, the rhythms, the vocals(no matter what they are singing about because I listen to music that ranges from Satanic, to Christian to secular, and even other religions to heavy metal to folk, to classical and chants and choir like arrangements), the way the drums are added in with the rhythm and how complicated rhythms actually sound so tranquil.
I'm a complete geek to how music affects the mind, the body and the senses and even how that affects how you deal things in your life etc....not lyrical tales that are so subjective to the world that I feel no connection with the lyrics unless I add that connection in that specific moment which does happen more than what it would appear by reading this post.
