There is no way that my musical tastes can be summed up into just a few key genres or bands or who i think has the best voice. I quite literally listen to everything. I think, however, that the most disappointing thing in life is music with no substance. Music is art and serves a purpose, whether that's to send a message, make you cry, make you smile, or just make you dance and have fun, but the point, I think, is the emotion.I don't mean a song has to be sad or sappy to be good, it just needs passion. For example, in almost every Prince song you can feel the sexual intensity he is creating, Journey's Don't Stop Believin' makes you never ever want to give up on your dreams (I have yet to met a person that doesn't at least smile when they hear that song), and in Devotchka's song In the End, which I know you've had to have heard on a commercial at one point, the beginning makes you really really depressed and keeps bringing you more down until the big loud part when you want to just finally cry already, each of those songs displays fantastic passion.
Being a singer myself, another thing I can totally appreciate is an amazing voice, that you know just from hearing it has that person's whole heart and soul and story and life in it. Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday are the greatest examples of this that I know. Along with using your voice as an instrument, using actual instruments in a creative and new way can be so beautiful. Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes uses whole orchestras, old folk sounds, and electronic beats along with his amazingly poetic lyrics and honest voice to make fantastic songs like "Make a Plan to Love Me," "First Day of My Life," and "Easy, Lucky, Free". I also grew up with the legendary mad guitar skills of Santana playing all through my house so I love listening to just instrumental music too. Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Bob Marley are all like family to me with how much I listen to them, I can't explain it but I should have lived in their time.
If you know me at all you know that I love to dance, everywhere, anytime. I too can respect an awesome beat even if it doesn't have deep lyrics or isn't sung beautifully. I love "booty music", funk, salsa, etc., I see dance and music as freeing experiences. M.I.A's "Paper Planes" makes me feel so cool dancing in the car to and "Bust A Move" by Young MC will always make me walk away from whatever I'm doing just to do the running man, and everyone knows that I'm always down for Sir MixAlot's "Baby Got Back". And as random as it is, I really like listening to songs from my favorite Disney movies.
I think my selections reflect the notion of boundaries because my tastes can cross so many boundaries, culturally, beyond cliques, for every emotion and any event. Music is something that both divides us and brings us together; for example: cliques form with the types of music people like but we can meet new people that we get along with at concerts of our favorite artists. The music you listen to says a lot about who you are and I think the bigger the variety you have in your MP3 player, the more fun you'll have and the more you'll learn.
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