How Music Influences Our Lives

Hi guys

So today, walking through the town, on my way to Greggs for breakfast, I was listening to a song I recently put on my phone. The song was called Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede (a lot of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' fans may know the song) and I was thinking about how different I felt listening to that song than how I would when I listen to songs like 'Animal I Have Become' by Three Days Grace.

When I was listening to this song, Hooked on a Feeling, I was thinking about what I could do to get me through the day, I was feeling happy and I was smiling. Whereas when I am listening to Three Days Grace, I start to become, sort of wary, of where I am and what I'm doing. And that's what got me thinking you see. The music choices I was making was changing my perspective on everything I was doing or thinking.

For example, imagine walking down the street and someone looks at you, you smile at them and they just frown or stare back. When listening to happy music I tend to just shrug it off and keep on through my day, wheras if I am listening to rock music I wonder what I have done, and I think "is it because he can hear my music?" That is the first thought that always comes into my head because one of the other things I noticed about music, was that people who listen to rock or metal are sometimes thought of as 'weird', 'rude', 'loud' and 'violent'. I know its not a lot of the time now, but I know it is a common misconception in a lot of people's eyes. That was the way it was seen by a lot of people from school anyway. When you're at school and just developing yourself as a person, you can take a lot of comments that will change the entire way you think about something, and it changes your perception a lot.

I know sometimes it is the case that people who listen to that sort of music are, because not everyone is a sweetie pie. But people who listen to other genres of music have come across to be the same way. Music doesn't determine who a person is, music just helps when its needed. When you need to smile, when you need to cry. Music can create a moment, and music can ruin a moment.

Music is something that should be felt down to your very soul, not something to be used for image or anything like that. So if you want to dance, then dance, sing, play your music and when you play your music play it loud.