How Music Changed My Life
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How Music Changed My Life

The Power Of The Perfect Bands

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How Music Changed My Life

Have you ever heard that song that you just felt deep down in your soul? I hope you have, because finding the music that touches you will change your life.

I honestly don't remember the first time I found that song that really hit me; it seems like I've been in love with music my whole life. Even before I listened to any songs beyond the kids' television shows, I would march around the house singing some song I had just made up at the top of my lungs.

If you put me in the car with the radio Hits station, I will be singing. It is futile to resist. Do you ever hear that slow, emotional song that makes you look out the window and pretend you're in a sad movie? Or a fast-paced rock song comes on and you start rocking the air guitar or playing drums on your lap? Music can take you to another world, sometimes a world much better than your reality.

When I entered my teenage years, music was one of the few things that I could count on. The teenage years are hard, I don't really know why, but I think we all felt it at some point. I had a go-to band for every attitude. I'm not ashamed to admit that most of my music collection was and is Taylor Swift albums. She has songs for being in love, breaking up, family, to friendship that I could relate to.

On the alternate contrast, during my middle school and teen years, a lot of the more punk and alternative bands were very popular: All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Never!Shout!Never!, All American Rejects, Skillet, just to name a few. I remember many nights feeling like the world was ending, but these bands had songs to validate my feelings, and then bring me back to hope and reality.

I don't know where I would be today if I hadn't had music as an outlet, I wrote my own songs and wallowed in both the popular and more obscure music of the times. When I felt that I was all alone, my bands were always there for me. And they still are, that's the great thing about music: it never dies.


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