Being Yourself: Your Music

Being Yourself: Your Music

            Music as we all know, changes the way we feel about the world in that single moment. That heart-piercing chorus line, the tear-jerking harmony, or the goose bump giving note that gives a shiver down your spine. Not everyone’s choices of music are the same, not everyone is going to like what you listen to and vice versa. Whether you are going to let that bother you or not is your own choice.

            Music to me is more than just a piece of notes and sounds placed together randomly with some lucky ones strung together to eventually strike our ears and grasp our attention. It’s a masterpiece in every form, in every style, I can tell this because no matter what style it is, from rigid and rough dubstep to smooth cleansing classical and to modern hip-hop songs that make you wanna get up and shake what your mama gave ya. Regardless of how universal and life-changing music can be to people, it’s not always used in the right way. People use it to get their points across which a lot of the times in newer songs isn’t the nicest message. Adults tend to see this as a recurring issue but there is something that their thick skulls just can’t seem to wrap around is the fact that young people nowadays, don’t even really listen to the lyrics all that much anymore. It may have been a big thing during our parents’ age when they were younger and filled with vivid life and laughter but not anymore, it’s mostly the beat that gets to most teenagers brains nowadays. Now all of these things said and done, the real issue, about your own music, shall now begin. I for one, have many songs that I like, and not all from the same kind of artist or genre, like many others who have a wide variety like I do. Then there are the others who do exactly that, stalk one type of music and play it into their headphones until they can’t hear anything but that music anymore ringing in their ears. People I can’t stand are those who judge a person just because they listen to a certain kind of their own personal masterpiece. Music is not something to judge someone’s character by, yet it happens all the time, someone who listens to hard rock is automatically a rough, gothic, skateboarding, hardcore person now. The girl who listens to classical is now considered a complete nerd and weird for having out-of-date music on her IPod. Or that guy who listens to techno and dubstep and electronic, is a crazy teen addicted to heavy beats who can hardly hear from blasting music all day. We build stereotype upon stereotype with no regard to how they even feel about that. I listen to all those kinds of music, and I refuse to let them set me apart.

            Today and for the rest of your life, I ask you to do the same. Do not let others tell you what you can and cannot listen to, because the music you like to listen to speaks to your soul and not theirs. Their souls can’t hear what yours is crying out while you listen the masterpiece. Sing to your own tune and dance to the rhythm of your own drum. You might just thank me later J Peace I love you all.