Hit Me With Music
For this section of my blog, I am choosing to write about what inspires me the most: music. I constantly have music on in the background of my every day life. If I could, I would hire someone to walk around behind me all day strumming on a guitar, so that I could have my very own theme music. Yes, I am that much into music.
As a public relations major, I would love to incorporate music into my career. However, I interned with a radio station last summer and soon realized I had trouble mixing work with pleasure. The work aspect took away from my enjoying music the way I once did. I prefer to have clear distinctions between work and play. I am a very structured, career driven person, but the music industry is too laid back and unprofessional for my taste.
So, from here on out, I plan on using this blog to explore the very nature of music beyond the suraface area.
Music is constantly bringing people together and that is what I love about it.
Music is a unique form of expression without words.
Whether it brings you together to rock out and mosh, or relax and sway side to side with the sounds, music of all genres inspires; yet another aspect why I find solace in music. The different genres allow me to explore who I am at different stages in my life. In fact, each day I learn something new about myself through music.
For example, just the other day, as I was perusing through my iTunes, I found an old Senses Fail album that took me by surprise. Way back when in High School, I was the epitome of a wannabe punk goddess. I wore the studded belt, pleated skirt, tights, and band t-shirts hopelessly attempting to pull of “the Look.” I went to the Masquerade and Swayzes with friends on the weekends in efforts to act the part.
Looking back through the music that defined my High School experience, I see a young girl who wasn’t yet sure of herself and who didn’t have a true identity. I used music to try and find myself, but rather got lost in the scene and tagged along with the preferences of her friends.
Now, I couldn’t imagine myself listening to Saosin, Fallout Boy, Taking Back Sunday, and Senses Fail. I will admit, hearing a song does bring me back to those days, but that was not the person that I truly am. Yes, I suppose it did help in the evolution of me, but I could never imagine who I would be now had I actually fit that mold. I love how music can define someone and can continue to do by evolving to our changes of taste.
