Baby, is this love for real?
Every now and then, I turn on the album This Is War, turn out the lights, close my eyes, and just weep as I listen. It's not that this album is sad, nor is it sad for me; it's more like the music plucks a deep emotional string in me that tingles until I release through tears. It's hard to explain how the album makes me feel--no other musician or album does that to me--but I do know that I always come out of the experience feeling refreshed and ready to take on the world...once I wipe my eyes.
I'm not sure that I'll ever understand how deeply music impacts me and the way I live my life. It helps form my opinions, makes me actually interested in politics, forces me to look within me and decide who I am and what I represent. Music makes me happy when I'm gloomy or pissed. Music makes me thoughtful when I'm bouncing off the walls. Music makes me spiritual when I'm normally not.
I suppose this is why I'm going into music journalism: I'd like to try to share with the world a piece of what I feel when I listen to music. I want people to understand the experience music can be to some. My deepest fear going into this business is my inability to fully communicate my thoughts with words. Because a lot of my thoughts are just feelings--indescribable feelings.
All I really know in this world is that I'll always be the one in the back of a concert bawling her eyes out because of emotional overload. Don't look at me like I'm dramatic, just realize that I'm passionate. And passion is life.
I'm not sure that I'll ever understand how deeply music impacts me and the way I live my life. It helps form my opinions, makes me actually interested in politics, forces me to look within me and decide who I am and what I represent. Music makes me happy when I'm gloomy or pissed. Music makes me thoughtful when I'm bouncing off the walls. Music makes me spiritual when I'm normally not.
I suppose this is why I'm going into music journalism: I'd like to try to share with the world a piece of what I feel when I listen to music. I want people to understand the experience music can be to some. My deepest fear going into this business is my inability to fully communicate my thoughts with words. Because a lot of my thoughts are just feelings--indescribable feelings.
All I really know in this world is that I'll always be the one in the back of a concert bawling her eyes out because of emotional overload. Don't look at me like I'm dramatic, just realize that I'm passionate. And passion is life.
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