Music

Music "is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound and silence, which exist in time"  This what you will find if you were to Google "what is music". Music means something different to everybody that comes in contact with it. Music to one person is healing and therapeutic, while another uses it a conversation piece.

Music has stood the test of time. Always being created, duplicated and manipulated. With all of the different genres of music, the way that music is talked about varies. For instance if you were to talk about classical, you would begin to talk about the different instruments that are heard, where the composer draws inspiration from and maybe even what key they are playing in. A broader conversation can be about rap and hiphop music. The lyrics will reach different audiences because not every talks about the same thing. As much as people think you will only hear about the struggle, there are also artists that talk about art and culture. What the culture is varies because you have something like trap music, where you will here more about what happens in more urbanized areas and what they go through and how they "flipped a quarter brick". There will be the mainstream rap that will toned down with talks of love and other relatable topics.

My connection to music has always been that of a coping mechanism. I find myself turning to music when I need to find comfort. There are songs that bring me joy, and pain. Music is used in so many ways, it is easy to connect a certain song with a memory that is either bad or good. A good memory would be from a time that I hung out with friends and we could not stop singing "Glamorous by Fergie" at the top our lungs. I see us all sitting in the car on our way to a party, just in our own little bubble creating a memory from a song we knew from our child hood.When I hear the song now, I am instantly brought back to that moment.