So, there's this guy...

His name is Jon Bellion and he is a musical genius.

My friend found him on Twitter in May of 2014 and showed my other friend, who showed me. I thought his music was pretty good; I hadn't ever heard anything quite like it. That was way back when very few people knew his name. Now, barely two years later, his newest album, "The Human Condition," is number five on the US Billboard 200, and he just performed on the "Today" show.

I really don't know anything about music. In high school, I actually paid $1.29 for the song "The Unicorn" by the Irish Rovers... That being said, I won't be using any fancy music lingo in this article or trying to make myself sound musically literate because I'm not. Regardless, I still love listening to Jon Bellion, and here's why:

I feel like I hear a new layer to each song every time I listen. There are so many ingredients and flavors and colors. Sometimes I just kind of sit there in paralyzed amazement that one mind pieced all of this together. It's like when a chef just knows what works with what; like there's some kind of secret mathematical ratio that only the creator understands.

He also sings about more than three topics. Again, I'm not well-versed (pun intended) on the modern musical world, but it seems like a good number of the popular hits are usually about the same things. What I really appreciate about Jon's music is that it's a window into his head. Not just his life, but his mind. It's authentic and fluid, like thoughts, and it doesn't always have to make sense. His song "Human" comes to mind.

I've seen him in concert twice. Now, the only other artist I've ever seen in concert was Cody Simpson when I was 15, so I don't have much to compare it to. But I loved it. He sang to us, not at us. There was no air of superiority and no lack of genuine emotion. He was there to do what he loved, and we were there to experience it with him, feeding off his passion and dancing to his art.

I don't know how common this is, but he had three openers. Three talented, passionate, dedicated people in similar positions as he was a few years ago. He is not a one-man show. He's part of a community, and we can tell by the way he interacts and supports his fellow artists.

I have faith that this guy will keep making music, and I know that I'll keep listening to him. Also, thank you to my friends for being musically literate and exposing me to artists cooler than the Irish Rovers.