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Are You Even A Music Lover If You Haven't Cried At A Concert Yet?

If you're a music lover that has yet to have a small existential crisis in the middle of a concert venue, I hope you will soon.

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Are You Even A Music Lover If You Haven't Cried At A Concert Yet?
Darby Peter

Not everyone would call themselves "a music person." That's fair. Some people have trouble finding an artist or even a genre of music that speaks to them. Relating to a piece of work created by someone whom you've never met is actually a bigger task than some of us music lovers realize because for us, it's easy.

We all have that one song or artist that we resonate with on a level bigger than ourselves. And that's why for us, concerts are an experience unlike any other.

For those that are only tangentially interested in music, and especially those who don't know much about music besides what plays on the radio, concerts aren't all that exciting. They may be an excuse to go out with friends and have a decent night, but not much beyond that. For music lovers, concerts can give us the emotional roller coaster we never knew we needed.

One time, I attended a concert of a band that was one of my favorites at the time (would highly recommend checking out the band Wild Child for those that haven't heard of them). I went into the concert excited to get to see a band I had recently discovered in concert. I was excited to see who they were as people and how their performance compared with their recorded albums.

I left the concert more emotionally drained than I ever could have imagined, but in the best way.

At that concert, I learned what we truly mean when we call musicians artists. Of course, there is an art to coming up with your own riffs and lyrics to songs, but what seems to often get overlooked in music is how the artists perform their songs. I did not go for a moment of that concert wondering whether any member of the band was dedicated to the performance and truly feeling the lyrics. I knew it. I saw it on their faces and heard it in their voices.

There's something intoxicating about feeling the exact same emotions as a complete stranger. These people come from who knows where and may be in a completely different age category and ultimately live a completely different life, yet at that moment, you're all in the same room feeling the exact same thing. That's an experience like none other.

I don't cry in front of anyone, much less in public, and I cried at that concert. And I wasn't the only one. That was everything.

So, if you're a music lover that has yet to have a small existential crisis in the middle of a concert venue, I hope you do. It sounds strange, but there's something alarmingly therapeutic about it.

Being vulnerable is hard and if music makes it easier, so be it.

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