My Way (with Music)

When you listen to music, what feelings/emotions does it evoke?

• When I listen to my sweet jams, there are all sorts of feelings. It depends on the music genre or artist I choose to listen to. Here is a list of emotions with the genre or artist that makes me feel that emotion.

• Happy- IM5. PTX, The Filharmonic, Frank Sinatra
• Calm- Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Vasi Hunton
• Sad/Dramatic- some Avril Lavigne songs, Troye Sivan
• Dance-y: Foreign music (K-Pop, Spanish music, anything mainstream/played repetitively on the radio
• Sing-Songy (Makes me want to sing sing sing): Disney, IM5, Movie Soundtrack Songs, Elvis

Music is just:

What is your favorite song? Why? Is it connected to a certain time, event, or place?

• Like movies, I have no one favorite song. However two of my favorite songs are classics: Fly Me to The Moon (In Other Words) by Frank Sinatra and I Can't Help Falling In Love With You by Elvis Presley. These songs are just so calming and soothing. I'm not sure my love for these songs can be put into words. Or at least not as well. They're just. OH SO GOOD. I can't remember where my love for Frank began or started, but it is there. Now for Elvis, I love the movie Lilo & Stitch. I would watch it a lot when I was younger. I even have the Lilo & Stitch CD which looks like a little record. I grew up listening to Elvis, so yeah.

I mean look at him. AH. AH. AH.

Do your friends listen to the same styles of music as you? What do you think this means?

• Yes and no. For example my best friend, Jessica, listens to IM5 like me. But then she listens to country music as well, which I can not stand. My friends and I share some of the same taste in music, but not all the same. This means that they have really good taste in music and that they enjoy listening to different styles. There's not some symbolic meaning behind sharing the same taste in music. It just means there's a commonality between you. I also like almost all kinds of music, so I share a similar taste in music with almost all of my friends.

Is there any style of music that should not be tolerated? Why?

• (WARNING: This is just my opinion, please don't hate me for it...) I can not stand country music or screamo. Country music all sounds the same to me, and I don't know how to describe the reasons why I don't like it. I just- I didn't grow up with it so maybe that's why? I'm not sure but I DON'T LIKE IT. I also cannot stand screamo. I grew up listening to heavy metal, so it's not that I don't like the "head-banging" kind of music. But screamo is just-. You can't hear what they're saying since they're screaming. And it's EXTREMELY loud. I just personally dislike this music and think that it should not be tolerated.