I am a bit of a weirdo as I have mentioned a couple of times in the past, a nice weirdo but still not what you call normal either way. I love music, just love it wholly and completely. I could spend all day everyday listening to the radio or my iPhone and singing along to every song I know (and believe me, that's a lot) because as long as it's music that I like it always keeps me smiling. I also have an endearing habit (at least I like to think its endearing) whereby I link almost any sentence into a song so I'll burst into it. Here's an example, this happened today; my manager asked if anyone had got an umbrella, so naturally I said "ella, ella, ella, eh, eh". I laughed, nobody else did.
There is nothing like when you find the perfect song that goes with your mood, regardless of what mood you are in. For me if I'm angry, it's usually a bit of Bullet For My Valentine, super fast guitar riffs and a serious drum beat, lots of screaming, perfect to channel anger into. Give it a try; I suggest whatever track six is on the Poison album. That's well and good but what about when you are in one of those fantastic moods and you can't understand why nobody is smiling? Or how about when you are just content with all that's going on? Or when you wake up and you're already late for work? You get what I mean but I could go on and on.
I think that everyday has it's soundtrack and it's individual to you and your mood on that day. You might hear a song that you like but it won't necessarily be the theme tune for the day. Unfortunately it is not always easy to find "Todays Top Tune" and more often than not you will probably miss it or you can't find it scrolling through your mp3 player because you never know what you're looking for. How many times have you listened to a song and put it on repeat because it's just great? That happens to me all the time Adele Make You Feel My Love was a recent one, I must of listened to that more than a thousand times in the last two months and I am seriously not joking; if you haven't heard it, she has the most amazing soulful voice. So anyway, you've found this one song that you would rather listen to than anything else but then a few months down the line, you end up skipping it when it comes on. It's not that you don't like it anymore, it just doesn't fit you at the moment, know what I mean?
Right now, as I sit in a bean bag writing this, I was listening to Bruno Mars who I am loving at the minute, but I have just changed to listen to Maroon 5. It's just that Maroon 5 have the right sound to go with my writing mood (today). Why is that that happens though? If you want to listen to a song constantly for an age, why would that change? I know I've said about moods and days and things but surely everytime I have listened to Adele over the last eight weeks or so I have been in every kind of mood possible, so why will the time come when I just think "I'll listen to that another time"?
You know what else is odd. We generally hear new music via the radio, yes that is obvious I know but, we hardly ever seek out new bands and stuff in the same genre that we know. Or do you? I generally stick to what I know unless something is introduced to me by one of my friends or as I said, the radio. One of the guys I work with is seriously into his music he know loads of local artists and has always got a new band you've never heard of but like I said I don't really know anyone else like that. The new and upcoming artisits that the radio station you choose to listen to are advocates of artists that record companies are currently promoting. All that is blatantly obvious but there are always artists, groups or bands who make it completely off their own steam. The best example I can think of right now is probably Sandi Thom. She is now signed to a record label but she started out by herself with podcasts that gained so much attention she released I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker. That song came out to a fairly mixed reception if I remember, me being me, I love it. Still obviously she made a name for herself, but releasing and producing your own album is far too costly to do by yourself so a record deal is almost a necessity unless you are wealthy enough to manage it by yourself.
Fun-fact I've just remembered; Dave Grohl who is now famously the lead vocalist of his band Foo Fighters actually wrote and recorded the first demo album completely by himself before he even had a band. I love stuff like that but that's just something to make you think.
I think the best thing about the right song is not that it can fit your mood but change it. Whenever I am in a doom and gloom and I can't figure out why, I just press all songs and shuffle on my iPhone. I will tend to skip until I find that one song that just hits the spot, gives you goosebumps and makes you smile. I am quite sad so depending on where I am or what I'm doing I close my eyes and just let myself get lost in the song and before I know it. I'm instantly cheered up. One of my favourites for that is Joss Stone, her voice is just incredible and her Mind, Body and Soul album is one of my favourite ever albums. As I said though, there is no specific formula and that song that will cheer me up can be completely different every day but isn't it just great looking and hearing a song you haven't heard for weeks...
Another thing are songs you just can't get out of your head. Whenever that happens to me, it's usually a song I cannot stand. The charts at the minute seem to be dominated by really bad and annoying music so I sometimes have to take a break and bring myself back from the brink of insanity by listening to something familiar and of my own tastes. Now we've reached the opposite side of what has so far been a fairly cheerful post. When you just seem to be surrounded by what in you opinion is just plain crap. For me its Garage, Speed Garage, House and all other similar genres, I loath and detest it, it's just noise. I appreciate that it takes skill and not everyone can make tracks but seriously I cannot listen to it. At all. So I will move and not let the music I don't like take over. Going back to having a song stuck in your head, if it's one you do like and you end up just singing the same couple of lines over and over again, if you listen to the whole song that cures that or at least it does for me.
Music has a power over people that is almost unexplainable. Almost every couple has a song. There is a song that makes you think of someone specific. There is a song that fits you and could be your theme tune. There is a song that will make you cry. There are songs that get you in the mood. The ability to write lyrics that can have such an emotional response to is an amazing ability that if you have you should make the most of. You might write a song that newly weds have their first dance to. It might be a song that someones son or daughter performs at a school production and makes his or her mum and dad swell with pride. It might be the song you lose your virginity too. A couples first kiss... The list is endless but songs and the lyrics to them will mean something to someone and it might be a different thing entirely but it will mean something nevertheless.
Listen well, listen often and if it makes you feel good, turn it up and sing along.
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