Music as I see it. Written in 10 minutes. I thought it would be fun. Challenge = give yourself 10 minutes to write in any way that you would like about your thoughts on music - any thoughts, any way - ready, set, go! And remember to stop at 10 minutes…and ya I did it too!
Music as I see it.
My mind is there. Your mind is not here, it is “here” and the music takes it there and there it stays until you change the music and then it goes somewhere else and that place can be cold or warm or wet or dry or it could make you laugh or cry or fall in love but it makes you feel and that is the point.
Where do you go?
When you get there you want to stay there and you don’t want the music to stop. The lyrics, the melody, the beat, the pulse, the sounds all around you and you are stubborn and you only like what you like and so do I. I scoff at the others and we listen on our record player and we are silent but the music is loud and we melt together and sometimes we hold hands but we say nothing. And you are miles away by a whole big gigantic sea.
The words.
The lyrics in a song have so much power over me and sometimes they make me smile and sometimes they make me feel uncomfortable and if they are empty lyrics, they make me sad and if they are heavy lyrics they can make me sad too, but the point is someone has taken time to write them and they probably affect someone else in a positive way and to me that is beautiful and also so poetic and I want to breathe in the lyrics and fly away with them and that is very corny. But I mean it.
The beat.
My friend who is an artist tells me to “ignore all the people who talk about beats” because everyone calls their music “beats.” “Check out my phat beats” “ Yo listen to my beats!” … etc … and maybe it is shitty music or maybe even someone elses music mashed up together but I still see some beauty in that and I like the word “beats” and I like the beat of the drum and the beat to a sax solo and the beat in a song. The beat goes on.
Therapy.
Music is therapy. It is the best kind of therapy because in some cases you don’t have to pay anything for it. Music can reach deep and the feeling of loud intense bass on a Saturday morning at 4am in an abandoned yet packed warehouse can be enough to get you through the day or the year or just that moment and how could that be considered a bad thing?
Music has the power to heal. Billie Holiday’s voice on a rainy day in Winter while walking home from work can have the power to wipe away all the pain or maybe for some to add to it but for me it can only do good. Thom Yorke’s lyrics blow me away, far away and away and away until I am so far away that I forget how to come back to that place I was before and I am just singing along and it is a feeling that makes me feel whole. Music is my therapy.
What is music to you in 10 minutes?
