My Musical Connections

To take a musical survey of my computer and cd library, any person would say that I am opened to anything.  Let me tell you though I didn’t start out like this.  My musical genre was strictly R&B with great beats and melodies.  No one would have ever guess that what I listen to know would be the keys for me.   Listening to my libraries reveals emotional and exciting things; but my children would beg to differ on so many levels. 

Over the years my music tastes have evolved not changed, I don’t want to just say changed because it has become more than that.   Music has become peaceful to me, my friend who listens to my pain and complaints.  Music knows what kind of mood I’m in and what kind of mood I need to be in.  As for me, in the past music was just that music, a sound with a good beat.  I think that back in the later days, music was my mother’s love which watered down to me; I just learn to look at it in a much different capacity than my mother does.

As I met new people and heard different kinds of music, my interest widen out of control.  The interests in the wide variety of music came when I got to California.  I learned to hear the sounds of Cindy Lauper, Depeche Mode and my favorite is Guns and Roses because this was what every once else was listening to.  One of the things I would do was try and find music that had a good beat to it; but I was always taken back to the rock’n  80’s and not the 60’s or 70’s for which I was accustomed to.    After a short period of time, I started enjoying the diverse music sense.  Not only did I start listening to rock but, I saw myself leaving the R&B era that I was familiar to.   Continuing on in high school my interest in the different kinds of music was became bigger and bigger as I explored new friendships.   Slow music meant something else to me and some R&B meant another.  Now and days I’ve gotten into listening to some Spanish artist with the people that I work with.  And let me just say it’s a wide variety of bets that have caught my ears. 

To identify the common pattern would simply be the beats of the music because that is the first catchy thing about music is the beat.  Once I heard the beat, tone and melody I was hooked.   Fast songs slow songs all some kind songs.  The kind of music depends on the mood I would be in at the time; whether I’m in a love mood or homework mood there is a song for all occasion.  However I seem to always have the energetic mood where everything is all over the place.  I just know that wherever there is music, there is fun and a whole lot of head shaking. 

I have never has an interest in playing an instrument, although the piano has come to my attention and the guitar.  Maybe someday in life I will be able to create sound that will bop other people’s heads and interests.

Influence of Music

Music and Me

13 February 2011

Music has always played many different roles in my life; from childhood to adulthood music has been there one way or another.  Just the other day I was sitting with a friend and listening to one of those advertising ads on television about listening to the oldies by buying so many cd’s for 5 payments of $29.95.  At the time we both couldn’t even believe we knew over half the songs from the 60’s -80’s.  We were born in the 70’s lol.  Anyway sitting and listening to those songs brought back so many memories of my mom, sisters and brothers when we were little.  It was amazing because some of those songs were used at my nursing graduation in 07.  That’s why when I need the extra boost for school I think or even listen to the songs. 

Me personally I like to listen to songs that give me ideas, make me think about how I did things in the past in order to change my future.  Although in my household R&B was the music as a child growing up in the south, as a teenager growing up in California was quite different.  Let’s just say that Depeche Mode and Barry White are so far off from each other; or that guns and roses had me rocky my head differently than Al Green.  Even though my interest in music dangles from a wide variety they all carry meaning for me, remembering my mother, going to elementary school or even junior high music always seem to have a specific place in my life.  During high school I couldn’t get through homework without having those big eared headsets on and my walkman to walk me through Algebra or trying to figure out the name of the peninsula by Italy.

In today’s world of music I still rock and dangle to some of the music probably due to the fact that I have 18 year old twins and I don’t want to seem like a drag as they call me.   What has amazed me the most is that fact that now I listen to the stations on the radio that I would have never thought that I would have enjoyed.  For example, I get more enjoyment in listening to 94.7 the wave, I would change the channel back to 94.7 from an R&B station that was playing something I heard when I was 6 years old.  Driving the 5 north toward Tehachapi is the most enjoyable drive ever; relaxation and time to reflect on the day and the night to come. 

Artists today can have so many meanings and share a diverse way of expressing themselves it unbelievable.   When watching that advertising with my friend the one thing that caught my eye was a duet between man and woman was gazing into each other’s eyes and knowing the true meaning of love.  Now and days, a duet consist of more than two and half the time they don’t have all their clothes on or in the process of taking off their clothes.   

When I listen to music I want it to reflect a positive attitude instead of a negative more.  To inspire my children to change the way they think and feel about themselves and others.  I don’t want it to be all about what they can get out of life but they change life with music.