Music, Sentiment, and Attachment

On the way home from work today, I was listening to Florence + The Machine’s Over the Love. The song is four and a half minutes long and for those minutes, listening to Florence Welch sing about love separated by distance real and metaphorical, I was somewhere else.

The second the song began my thoughts ceased all together and the music just poured into my mind, like clean water to a parched throat. There was that jolt of electricity and I was taken away from that cramped van and teleported into a world where all that mattered was the beautiful blending of voice, melody, and emotion. Every sound that came out of my earphones just lifted me up and I transcended my being at that moment.

The song just took my breath away and my heart just wanted more. It had all the elements that make an epic song and I was just so content to stay in that world the music created for me and just as wished that it wouldn't the song had to end. 

The obligatory replay was done and the song still had the same effect. That’s when I knew I would get attached it. 

That’s what epically good music does to people – you get attached to it. It is not really a sense of ownership to the song but rather with sentiment and value. Good music is just able to evoke those kinds of feeling because often they reach a place in you that very few things are capable of. Its intangibility allows it to sneak into the crevices of your being and find that piece that it just fits into and it just makes sense.

It doesn't matter what you listen to, there are always songs that bring you somewhere else and you forget everything in those minutes where the song just flows from your player, to your ears, and to every part of you, and those moments are important. It’s a reprieve from the present and we all need that sometimes. Music is one of the things that help me cope when I'm sad, stressed, angry, or when I just want to get away from the world for a while. It's my remedy. 

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Music for the Movie of My Life

This is something I thought would be fun to do. For the past year I've been hanging around a social site and I've been inspired by so many things for it. I thought this was quite funny so I decided to do it, too - on the site and here in my blog as well.

So here's what you have to do: put your music player on shuffle and every song that comes up will be the soundtrack to the movie of you life.

OPENING CREDITS	My Boy Builds Coffins  Florence + The Machine Lungs
WAKING UP	Misery Business  (Unplugged Version) Paramore MTV Unplugged
FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL	Tore My Heart Oona and David Tweedie Shhhhout EP
FALLING IN LOVE	Candyman Christina Aguilera Back to Basics
FIGHT SONG	Hot Blooded Foreigner Hot Blooded and Other Hits
BREAKING UP	Hollaback Girl Gwen Stefani Love Angel Music Baby
LIFE'S OKAY	This Love Maroon 5 Songs About Jane

The songs sort of make sense to me. The way I would write the script of my life movie, purely based on the song choices, would go like this: 

My movie starts out miserable, having broken up with someone recently. We can relate the songs Misery Business (which is basically a song about a boyfriend-stealing skank) and Tore My Heart (I think the title says it all). 

Then as the story progresses I fall in love again but Candyman would not be the first song I'd pick as the song I'd fall in love too. Perhaps my love interest is in fact a candy man who works in a candy store. I don't know, really. I just wouldn't pick that song. It's not even in my top 20.

I'm not even going to explain how Hot Blooded can be a fight song. At the most, all I can think of is angry sex. My mind is kind of in the gutter right now.

Of course, there is the inevitable break up. But I'm cool. I am a strong, independent woman. I am a BAMF. I don't need someone to complete me. Insert Hollaback Girl in scene.

This Love is actually appropriate for Life's Okay scene of my movie. I'm taking a stand in this last part of the movie and choosing not to give in and go back to a relationship gone south, after all this love has taken it's toll on me. 

This whole post has been an exercise of my creative mind, though my life is not like this "movie" in any way. I was merely letting the songs write the script for me, if that makes any sense. If I did write a movie about my life, it wouldn't go like what the songs dictated. 

I encourage everyone to try this little thing, even just the part with the songs. You don't have to write how your life movie will go but if you want to, go right ahead. Write an actually script if you want. Just let the creativity shine through. :]

Music. 'Nuff Said.

What is it about music?

Music is one my constant companions in life. I am never without it. I get separation anxiety when I don’t have music with me. At times when I find myself alone or lonely, music is there. It’s one of the few things in life I know that won’t disappoint me and that could brighten my day in an instant.

Music can speak volumes and volumes in a matter of minutes. Sometimes you find yourself just enveloped by it, be it by its beauty or its sadness or its anger or any other emotion that mirrors your heart, and then you feel like you’re living out the words and the melodies. When the music stops you just sit there, trying to bring back that moment, that magic. And you press play again because you just know that the music can answer your questions. Questions that you don’t even know you’re asking.

Music is a product of passion and of heart. That is why music can be different. Because we are all different and we speak from different hearts and we feel passion for different things and different people. We may come from all over the world and we all may have never met before but we share the music.

Music is universal. It is everywhere. It is in our souls and it beats within our hearts. It can convey so many different things and affect so many people. It can bring us joy. It can cause us to breakdown in tears. It makes us want to rebel. It makes us unite. It makes us want to conquer the world.

Music transcends everything.

This why I love music.