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The human race has created many things to be proud of, and one of the most precious is music. Music can be beautiful at times and have different people express the exact same emotion. Music has the ability to have a person express emotions that the person didn't think he/she could express at the time, or music can help end a fight between a couple. Music is a powerful force that everyone has excess to however many people don't believe music can change anything. I have seen in the past year how music can "calm the savage beast" in people. I have seen friends fight over the smallest thing and after hearing "their song" end the fight and apologize for the fight.
Where music is a powerful force, it can be used as a weapon too. An example of this is the "World Idol" competition that will be on television soon. There has always been a little bit of tension between people of the United States and Canada. As I heard on the radio, the tension will be on that show too. The judge from the American Idol (that was cruel to the singers) made some bad comments to the Canadian Idol singer, and the Canadian Idol singer talked back to that judge; and in doing so got a good response from the crowd. When the American Idol singer did his/her performance, the Canadian Idol judge (the one that was sarcastic a lot) made some bad comments to him/her. In turn the American Idol judge did a bad comment to the Canadian Idol judge. Many people watched both shows, however this type of tension was not in either one. With the new World Idol competition, with this type of tension, the show will receive higher ratings because of people like myself that loves that type of controversy between Canada & the United States. It would be the same as in the Olympics Hockey when Canada goes against the United States. Where the 2 countries are so close, and some say are the same, there is a lot of tension as if they were siblings. Canada is like the little brother because the United States protects it so much, like a big brother. The problem is that Canada is more of a peaceful country, so music should come naturally, however the United States is more "war-hungry" and are able to produce music too. I personally, didn't watch either of the American Idol or Canadian Idol shows, however the World Idol I will probably watch for the other fact to see the type of tension that the radio has been reporting today.
For the past year, I have started to see the power of music. The music that has the most powerful impact on anyone is when the music involves the emotion of love, somehow. In the past I didn't care for those types of songs because that type of music had no affect on me, due to the lack of emotions that I felt. Now as more emotions have begun to surface, I have realized how strong that type of music really is. Whenever I hear some of the older music on the radio I can hear the emotion that the person is trying to express, however I don't feel it. With the newer music I actually feel the emotion that the person is trying to express. It may be because I have heard the older music too much to fell for the music and the newer music I haven't heard before so I can actually feel the song, don't know, doesn't matter. The ability to see/feel the emotion in the music is new enough for me, knowing why for each song is unnecessary.
For the Christmas music, I find it more annoying than anything else. I say this because most of the Christmas music sounds like the singer is choking on something while singing. The music itself I have no problem with, however it is the singers that are singing it. The tones in the music seem to be difficult for most of the singers in the world, so the music that is heard by people sounds worse than if he/she sang it himself/herself. I know I am not the only one that thinks this way because it was actually brought to my attention yesterday by a fellow employee, I just agree with it and am bringing it out in the open a little more. I would actually like to see the professional singers come up with some new Christmas songs, although the old ones are still good ones, some new Christmas music would lighten up the people of the world a lot more than them singing the old music. Christmas is supposed to be the time of happiness and giving to others, however the more that professional singers sing the older songs, there are less people caring enough about Christmas time.
Music is a very precious thing that we all have access to, and many of us try to mimic to feel better about ourselves. When we are happy, we sing to show how happy we are. When we are sad, we will listen to/sing some "heart-breaking" music to help us feel the same way. It is odd to listen/sing to the music that expresses the emotional state that you are in rather than the opposite, especially if you are feeling sad. I guess it is just human nature to not do logically things. It would be logically to try to stay as happy as possible regardless of how terrible your life has become. The sad music that exists is from people that were sad when creating the music. This music has a chance, not a high one but still a chance, to actually help a person that is sad. Most sad music will be worse than what the person listening to the music has experienced, so it actually cheers the person up. The funny part, to me, is that the reason that professionals can get into situations worse than any of us is because they have lots of money. I say this because most of us cannot afford to destroy his/her own house when having an emotional fight with someone. Usually some things are thrown, however not everything. These professional singers have lots of money, lots of expensive (unnecessary stuff), and no common sense when in a verbal fight about something.
I have found, most recently, that in long car trips it is good to have a bunch of music that you can sing to. Whether you have a good voice when singing or you are tone-deaf, it doesn't matter. For long car trips it is good to be able to do something else other than concentrate on the road & your driving. Many people will become bored of the trip if he/she isn't multi-tasking somehow when driving. I have found that most of the love/sad songs that are in music will help you do the multi-tasking that is required when you are driving by yourself. These types of music allow you to feel the emotion that the songs are expressing. These types of music also are easy to sing to (easy to memorize due to so much repeating of itself). I haven't tried having a CD made of only love/sad songs, however I will be trying it this weekend. Perhaps it will decrease my speed on the road or it may increase it even more, I will soon find out. Hopefully it will slow me down because I will not need the extra speed (in theory) to keep me awake for the drive. Most of the music I listen to is parodies (comedies) of other music, and I have heard them all before. Even with a combination of comedy and "slow" songs on a CD, I still have a high rate of speed when I drive. Hopefully this new CD of love/sad songs will slow me down some before I get a "speeding ticket", which would really suck for this time of the year.
There is also a second reason to have a CD that has only love/sad songs on it. The music that is involved may be able to help me feel all of the emotions that I have blocked for the past 10 years. Even though I have become a better person for allowing myself to feel some emotion once again, I am still mentally blocking most of my emotions. This CD, of music I normally wouldn't listen to, may have the ability to knock some of the mental barriers down for me. The mental barriers that have already come down were thanks to two things. The first thing is the wedding of a friend, which I finally saw true happiness and decided by the following Christmas that I needed to come out of my depressed state of mind. The second thing is the friendship that I have obtained approximately 6 months ago, which has allowed me to talk to someone (that I can trust) about any subject that may come up between us. With these two things I have been able to come out of the shell that I have been in for at least 10 years, and hopefully this CD helps me through the next step.
There are many people that try to use music for his/her own purposes. It is sad to see a person abuse something that is as beautiful as music. I have seen/heard about friends and friends of friends that have done just that. I don't like hearing about stuff like that however it is unavoidable with some of the idiots that I know. The way that I feel is the worst way to abuse music, is to use music to just get the opposite sex into bed. Where music can be extremely moving when some people sing it, some people can be moved with the music so much to let his/her guard down. It is sad to see a person let his/her guard down and be caught up in the music, but it is only sad to see when someone takes advantage of it. When some of my friends have attempted this type of stunt, with me around, I have interfered with what he/she was doing to stop him/her from doing what he/she was doing. I have had friends not talk to me for a time period for how I interfered with his/her plans, however with friends (idiots) like that, not talking to me is a good thing. It disgusts me to see something so precious/powerful/beautiful be abused in such a way, and hopefully I never turn out to be like that. I hope that when I am able to feel everything, I don't end up like some of my friends that are complete idiots because music should never be used in that way ever due to the power it has over people.
Music also has the power to make people feel bad about himself/herself and the situation that he/she has gotten into. No matter how positive something is there is always something just as negative, with music this is also true. A person can feel like nothing can hurt him/her until he/she hears a song that reminds him/her of a different time. The painful memories that may come back from remembering that specific time, has a high chance to bring that person down from the happiness that he/she was feeling before. Where music is created out of emotion, music has the ability to change a person's emotional state when the music is heard. Most of the time when music makes someone sad, the song was "his/her song" or the song was playing in the background when the bad situation happened (breakups are the most famous). It is difficult to help a person through a bad situation, and more difficult when it deals with a relationship or past relationship. When people become attached to a relationship too much and have a specific song that he/she will dance/sing to, that song becomes a trigger that the person will need to work through. It always takes time to get over the emotional attachments that a relationship creates especially any music that the couple would listen to. It is sad to see someone suffering from the breakup and more difficult to see a friend going through it.
People will always say that time will heal all wounds, to anyone that is going through a breakup. Everyone knows the saying, however when you are going through the breakup you will never believe in it due to the pain you feel. Any music that you listened to during the relationship (or due to it) will make you said just because of the pain of the lost relationship. I believe the most difficult thing to get over is the music, due to the happiness you felt during the relationship with that music; the music will always remind you of emotion you felt in the relationship. Music will always be around to help people feel better about themselves, however becoming attached to a song with a relationship can cause you more pain than you can foresee. I know people will always feel pain through music somehow, and I hope those people can work through that pain enough to hear that music in it's true nature once again. I would never put a person through that pain, regardless if he/she were an enemy, because it is too cruel to put someone through in the first place but doing it on purpose is worse. Anyone that does that type of thing on purpose should be shot. It's not right, and is a crime in my eyes. I know of people that try to do that same type of thing, and I have no respect for them. Even as I type this I realize how little respect I have for that friend, and only keep him/her as a friend (even though I haven't seen him/her in a year) to make sure there is a possibility to stop him/her from doing it when I am around. It sounds a little cruel on my part to keep him/her around as a friend to stop him/her from hurting others, however I see it as a form of protection to everyone else.
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