The Secrets Behind the Music

You can start to hear the faint whispers of music off in the distance. The warm air and the sparkling stars accompany you as you make your way towards the sounds. As you get closer, you can hear it more clearly. Right now it's still a bit muffled by cement walls, but as soon as you step foot into the arena it hits you like a tidal wave. The floor vibrates and and the speakers shake. You get even closer and you can feel in now. Feel it coarse through your body, every beat making your heart pound along. You sing the words but you can't hear your voice, only the voices of a thousand others.

That's my favorite feeling. The feeling of music so loud you can not only hear it, but you can feel it. At a nighttime concert, or in the car making the sides thump barely being able to hear your wailing voice. To me music isn't just about what you hear on the radio, or the one song you can never get out of your head no matter how hard you try. It's about feeling the music and really understanding the lyrics. 

Sure, what they play on the radio is great for about the first week or so, but then they play the song to death. Those are never the songs that stick with me. It's the songs that aren't always played on the radio, the ones that will never loose meaning no matter how many times you hit replay on your iPod. The songs that bring back those awful, wonderful, happy, angry feelings you got when you first heard the song and it explained your situation. Those ones tend to capture emotions and thoughts and smells and memories only in a couple minutes. What else can do that? What else can make you feel something so real it makes you want to cry?

I remember one time I listened to a song only when I was talking to this certain person, and after we stopped talking I could never bring myself to listen to that song again because of the memories and feelings it brought with it. But when you actually think about it, it's fantastic. Something that can bring up so many memories about something, it's like it happened only a few days ago. Eventually I did listen to the song, and I never toke it off my iPod. Even though I hated it, I was memorized by the power one song could hold.

When I listen to a new album I always find that one or two songs that I absolutely love right from the start, and more often than not it's the slow ballad-type songs. They just tend to have more meaning to me because you can feel the emotion from the singer. Sometime I try to get my little sister to listen to the slow songs I love, but she never understands them. She always says 'They're too slow!' and I just roll my eyes because I know that one day she'll understand. Or not. Who knows, right?

Lets change the mood a bit here and dive into the music I listen to, shall we?
My music taste is a bit all over the place, honestly. I like indie music, alt-pop music, pop-punk etc. I really dislike country music, so if you're a country music fan, I'm sorry. What I listen to depends on my mood and the weather. If it's rainy I tend to listen to more mellow, sad songs. When it's sunny, I'm listening to the top 40 pop songs or bubbly upbeat tunes. By the time night rolls around and I'm in bed I listen to A LOT of Coldplay and Ed Sheeran. I'm talking the same songs on replay until I fall asleep, and I never get sick of that loop. When people ask me what my favorite song is, I can never narrow it down to one. So I made a list of my top ten.

• Give me love by Ed Sheeran
• Fix you by Coldplay
• Buy the stars by Marina and the Diamonds
• Chocolate by The 1975 (Their accents are so lovely) 
• If my heart was a house by Owl City
• Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
• Innocent by Taylor Swift
• Men and angels by The Rocket Summer
• The Scientist by Coldplay
• Autumn leaves by Ed Sheeran

There are so many more and after I publish this I'm going to want to add more and more, but these are the ones that came to me first.
Here's my final thought on this, music is a way of expressing yourself. You don't need to be an amazing singer or play an instrument to appreciate it. All you need is to have the few songs that you can totally relate to and understand the secrets behind the music.

Dixie xoxo