Let The Music Play

“There’s a song that you can find
In every moment of your life
In every tear you’ve ever cried
In every painful last goodbye”

Let The Music Play – Good Charlotte

Music. It could be one of the most important things in our life. You see, I believe music speaks to everyone. Music loves, cares, and understands. Music is always there. Music is free to interpretation and free to any emotion.  Music never talks back.

I like to believe there is a song for every occasion. When I went to Christmas in the Park, I sat there with two friends and listened to a night’s worth of celebratory music. I loved the carols for Christmas, and I loved music from Michael Murphy, Jackie Clarke and Frankie Stevens for entertainment. At the end of the night, I loved the rendition of Katy Perry’s Firework as fireworks light up the night sky in celebration of Christmas. The night was a night of music.

My iTunes is a fruit salad. With more than twelve hundred songs, and more songs being added all the time, there is a bit of everything for every mood. There’s my Foo Fighters for when I want to rock out, Simple Plan when I’m feeling nostalgic about my pre-teen years, Adam Lambert for when I’m feeling a bit hip. There’s Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, Guns n Roses and The Beatles, Westlife and Keane. There’s music from The Lion King and Rocky Horror Picture Show. There’s even the sly Backstreet Boys song.

I listen to it all. Not all the time; I may go months without listening to a certain artist, then all of a sudden, I crave them. The other day, I wanted nothing more than some Jack Johnson to chill to while heading to work. Unfortunately, Jack had managed to escape from my iPod and set me in a bad mood for the day. It was a mistake I certainly learned from.

When thinking about the New Year, I decided to be one of those people who finally get around to getting a meaningful blog going. Rather than boring the internet with the ins and outs of my day, I thought I’d take something which is a large part of nearly everyone’s life. My aim is take a song, and find out why it makes me tick. Then I want to share it with you, because music may be personal, but music is also something to be shared.

Let the music play.