Music

I am often amazed by the human capacity to create art. Perhaps no other form of art amazes me more than music. The ability to express and inspire emotion via a combination of sound and rythm, with perhaps some vocals to help tell a story.

Though it has taken me a while to finally learn this lesson, I have come to learn that we all have wildly different tastes in music. I used to be like a hipster, thinking only certain genres were real music, and everything else was crap. But now I laugh at the child I was. Just because something is crap to you, does not mean it's crap to everyone.

I once had a girlfriend, and she told me that pop music was crap. Performers like Lady Gaga, according to her, had no artistic merit, unlike musicians like Sage Francis. Why? Because her music was industrial 'crap' and had no artistic value, unlike the 'deep' lyrics of Sage Francis. But with time, I learned that the value of music lies not in what message it contains, but on how the listener reacts to it. So, to one listener, maybe "Born this Way" is a much better song than "Makeshift Patriot", simply because he or she responds better to the lyrics. I personally don't care for Sage Francis, specifically because his songs no longer hold any meaning to me.

The songs I think have influenced me the most are: "Hey Sandy" by Polaris, "I'm with you" by Avril Lavigne, "Omoide wa Okkusenman" by Aoi Kiba, and "Black Sheep" by Metric.

There was no point to this blog but to express myself.