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The Importance Of Listening To Music Outside Your Comfort Zone

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The Importance Of Listening To Music Outside Your Comfort Zone

My brother and I are completely opposite when it comes to music. He likes a lot more rock and metal, and I like pop and musical theatre and a lot of alternative music. But that doesn't mean we can't share.

It is important to get outside of your comfort zone when listening to music because it makes you more aware of the world. It makes you feel something beyond looking for that next song that you can blast the radio to and yell swear words (which is all of my emotions towards Cardi B on the occasions I listen to her).

My parents raised me to listen to a little bit of anything. My mom loves to listen to Madonna and music from the 80s. My dad listened to a lot of rock, and I once even determined that it was "Daddy's Angry Music." I have grown a little since then, thankfully. But besides the rock, I still know every word to "Suds in the Bucket" by Sara Evans and "She's in Love With the Boy" by Trisha Yearwood. I'm not even a country fan, but I can sing those!

My friends in high school introduced me to a bit more hip-hop and rap music, and I don't love the genre most of the time, but there are some songs I can pick out from different artists that I like enough to put on a playlist.

My favorite artists are Halsey, Panic at the Disco Sam Smith, Marina and Diamonds, and a new addition, The Struts, so there is a good amount of variety to what I listen to regularly. And then, of course, I have a Spotify playlist of show-tunes 23 hours long.

If you haven't heard anything from the Struts, you should. They aren't entirely a rock band, but they have a really cool sound that blends a bit of pop with rock. I'd say three or four of their songs end up on the radio often, but ones I'd recommend most are "Body Talks," "Could Have Been Me," "Kiss This," and "In Love With a Camera." All of these songs sound a little different, but they give a pretty good idea of the band's sound.

I never thought I would be excited to go to what is essentially a rock concert, but in May I am going to a concert with my family explicitly for The Struts. It'll be my first real concert, I think, and I'm really excited. I think the atmosphere is going to be different than anything else I've seen.

I'll be sure to write about my experience once that happens, but for now, I'll be making a playlist of all of the bands that are going to be at this concert. I'll be listening to a lot of Shinedown, Fozzy, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Evanescence, Bad Wolves, and of course, so, so much more of The Struts.

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