If you have a television, watched a show on a ad enabled website/app like Youtube, Hulu, or used the Pandora app, you undoubtedly saw their new advertisement "That Song." If you haven't seen it, I have taken the liberty of placing a link below for your viewing pleasure.

Before I continue, let me just give kudos to advertising team at Pandora. This was an excellent, excellent way to advertise their app because of how real and relatable this subject is to people. Music is one of the most entertaining and rewarding experiences in life. It gives this existence of ours a variety of flavors and spices that most other mediums of entertainment can't compete with. Even though music is a vast part of our life, filed with many genres and types of music, for the majority of us we're still able to find that "piece of music".

You know what I mean, that "piece of music."

That beat, that ballad, that lyric. That song that rocks your very core and fills you with emotion. The song that makes you remember a time when you were at your highest and lowest. The song that energizes you and makes your heart race. The one that shocks your brain and forces you to smile.

The one that makes you cry without you knowing why.

You're probably thinking about that song, or songs now. Yes, you can have more than one.

It's amazing how we subconsciously respond to music, but when you hear "those," the song or songs are completely mind-blowing. It doesn't matter the instruments really, heck it doesn't matter the language of the song. When you feel it, you feel it hard. I for one can attest to that as truth.

You see, I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. When It came to music, Hip-Hop, Rap, and R&B were the go-to genres. Plus, I was born in '86, so I was blessed to be exposed to Biggie, Tupac, Blackstreet, Dr. Dre, Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige, Charlie Baltimore, Foxy Brown, Outkast, Onyx and so many more. When they were coming up and in their prime. You would think that as I grew older I would be more immersed in these genres and to an extent that is true.

I've always been a fan of Hip-Hop, Rap, and R&B, and at the same time I have always been a fan of things like video games and Japanese anime. Including the music...wait...let me re-phase that...

ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC!

Some of the OST's (abbreviated for original soundtracks) for these forms of media hit me in a way that nothing before it has. They fuel me with passion, creativity, shake my soul and have more than once left me standing still, jaw-dropped open wondering who made this and where I could find more. They grabbed me like a drug addiction, as someone whose point of musical exposure was Hip-Hop, Rap, and R&B .

A lot the music that hit me is not of those genres. I have become greatly multi-genre now.

Neither are they English.. a good amount is Japanese. No, I do not know what they are saying... but they hit me hard all the same, some even harder.

Mind you, I love looking up old school music. Music that was playing around my childhood. It takes me back to that time. While that's nice, it's different from being rocked. That's what they're talking about in the advertisement. That's what I am talking about in this article. The songs you can never truly describe how they have made you feel because there's too much emotion.

Songs like these 3.

Until this day I don't know why they make me feel the way they do. Why Storyteller makes me clench my fist with pride. Why Genesis makes me smile when I hear its bridge, or why Under rains both relax me and makes me feel so melancholic at the same time. I am thankful for those feelings though. So I leave you with this:

Next time you hear "your song" ask yourself and really think: How does this song make me feel?