Crashing inside you like motorbikes.
Of all the things that have affected me in myriad ways throughout my life, nothing comes close to the impact that music has had on me. Except maybe becoming a parent, but that should go without saying and is on an entirely different plane.
Music is my escape. It's my solace. It's my release. When I'm alone in my car, singing along with whatever song and putting my whole soul behind it...there's no other feeling like it in the entire world. I know that I probably look like a complete lunatic to whoever may see me, but at that moment, nothing else matters but the notes and the lyrics. I wish there were a way to describe it...whenever I sing, I feel free. It sounds trite as all hell, but it's the complete truth.
Occasionally I get scoffed at or disdained for the music I claim as my own. It doesn't bother me. Music is too precious to me to allow it to be degraded in my mind. People ask me how it feels to know that the music I embrace is also embraced by 13-year-old fangirls. To be honest, I could care less. I don't define the music I love by the audience that also loves it. Certainly there is a sense of community with certain bands' fans (AFI for example, although the DF is surely not the stellar example it used to be, there is still hidden within its ranks a true family among the elitists), but that doesn't cause me to like or dislike bands. That would be shameful in my opinion.
Also, I've never gotten the point of slamming a band that you don't like. Even if that artist's music isn't your cup of tea, it is most definitely someone else out there's, and that band is doing something that most of us never get to dream of doing. Taking their words, their beliefs, their life and putting out there for the public to judge. No matter who you are, that takes courage. And determination. So even if I choose not to listen to their music, I have to admire their tenacity.
Music is the universal singular experience. Every song is interpreted differently by every listener. Each note touches each person in a unique way. It doesn't get any more amazing than that. And I'm thankful every day that I have it to get me through.
Music is my escape. It's my solace. It's my release. When I'm alone in my car, singing along with whatever song and putting my whole soul behind it...there's no other feeling like it in the entire world. I know that I probably look like a complete lunatic to whoever may see me, but at that moment, nothing else matters but the notes and the lyrics. I wish there were a way to describe it...whenever I sing, I feel free. It sounds trite as all hell, but it's the complete truth.
Occasionally I get scoffed at or disdained for the music I claim as my own. It doesn't bother me. Music is too precious to me to allow it to be degraded in my mind. People ask me how it feels to know that the music I embrace is also embraced by 13-year-old fangirls. To be honest, I could care less. I don't define the music I love by the audience that also loves it. Certainly there is a sense of community with certain bands' fans (AFI for example, although the DF is surely not the stellar example it used to be, there is still hidden within its ranks a true family among the elitists), but that doesn't cause me to like or dislike bands. That would be shameful in my opinion.
Also, I've never gotten the point of slamming a band that you don't like. Even if that artist's music isn't your cup of tea, it is most definitely someone else out there's, and that band is doing something that most of us never get to dream of doing. Taking their words, their beliefs, their life and putting out there for the public to judge. No matter who you are, that takes courage. And determination. So even if I choose not to listen to their music, I have to admire their tenacity.
Music is the universal singular experience. Every song is interpreted differently by every listener. Each note touches each person in a unique way. It doesn't get any more amazing than that. And I'm thankful every day that I have it to get me through.