BFF-athon *What good music is
May. 24th, 2009 02:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dabhugGood music is music that makes you feel something. Genre doesn't matter, we can argue about what type the music is, but I won't ever argue about what's good. I feel about music like I feel about books. I don't care what you read, as long as you are reading. I don't care what you listen to, as long as you are listening. Feel something.
A song can take me back to a certain time, a certain place. I can be driving to work on some random Tuesday, and the right song can come on the radio and all of a sudden, I'm sixteen and still cute and healthy and smart and in love with a boy, the future spread out in front of me, full of possibility. I can be standing at the sink, washing dishes, and a song shuffles up on the mp3 player and I'm struck with grief, missing someone so bad I'd swear there was a hole in my heart. There may be a million reasons why I've lost contact with someone who was once important, but the song remembers them. The song remembers when.
One of my favorite things to do is to sit out on the patio at my chosen family's house, listening to "classic" music, talking about music's history, identifying artists and songs, introducing a new generation to the classics, and telling stories. Music tells a story. You decide which one.
A song can take me back to a certain time, a certain place. I can be driving to work on some random Tuesday, and the right song can come on the radio and all of a sudden, I'm sixteen and still cute and healthy and smart and in love with a boy, the future spread out in front of me, full of possibility. I can be standing at the sink, washing dishes, and a song shuffles up on the mp3 player and I'm struck with grief, missing someone so bad I'd swear there was a hole in my heart. There may be a million reasons why I've lost contact with someone who was once important, but the song remembers them. The song remembers when.
One of my favorite things to do is to sit out on the patio at my chosen family's house, listening to "classic" music, talking about music's history, identifying artists and songs, introducing a new generation to the classics, and telling stories. Music tells a story. You decide which one.
