Music: an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.
That's Google's definition of music for ya, sounds boring doesn't it. Well, a few years ago I thought the same thing. For me, music was just something to pass the time, it sounded good, it was there, whatever.
Up until I met a few people that changed my perspective on the music I listen to and completely changed MY definition of music. Being in a high school with a very talented music program, I've come to learn that music comes in all different types of forms, and every single one has a meaning behind it.
I met a girl in high school, her name is Yoon its actually Na Eun but i call her by her last name :]
I thought she was a super cute little asian chick and of course I brought the stereotype in and thought she was a super nerd that was trying to make it into an ivy league lol. But I was completely off. After sitting next to her in english class for a whole 10 months, I've come to learn that there's sooo much more to her than meets the eye. She was someone I looked up to because she was smart, and musically gifted and artistic and funny and little does she know, she taught me that music can change how someone feels and thinks. She'd write poetry, and was a part of the jazz band and make her own music, and rap and make videos and they were always SO good! She taught me about expressing myself in more ways than one, and thanks to her, I can't go a day without listening to music, or finding some new music to listen to. I guess music to her is a form of expression and individualism, a way for people to understand where she's coming from and what she wants, who she is, where shes going etc. & its true when they say that the music you listen to describes who you are because after meeting Yoon, I realized that shes more than just a girl who's trying to make it into a good college and graduate with all A's, Shes an eminem loving, poetry writing, video making, jazz loving, dancer rapper and amazing friend :] So check out her youtube page and subscribe because shes awesome.
Another person did this was my friend Sam, she sat next to me in english as well. She'd write poetry and her poetry wasn't your average every other line rhymes poem, she wrote spoken word poetry. A type of rhythmic poetry that originated in the 1990's in NYC. Her words we're like weapons on a paper, she'd write about everything from problems to people to things, basically everything. However, her words would flow like a song and the metaphors in her poetry were incomparable to anything I've ever seen before. I remember going to a Poetry Slam where she competed against 100+ other teens. Getting up on stage and spilling your soul out to a bunch of faces you don't even know is a challenge to any average teenager out there, and I remember the nervous look on her face, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her poetry filled the room. It was like a story and a song and poetry intertwined it one. There is only one word to describe it and that is INCREDIBLE. The format of Spoken word poetry became one of my favorite ways of expressing myself, although I'm not as good as Sam, I love the idea of being able to write things in such a free and open manner. Although poetry isn't music, to me spoken word poetry is music because a song without the beat is poetry. This is one of the main reasons why I love rap so much because even without the music, the words still sound like they belong.
With that being said, for all those people that think that music is just there, keep in mind that to some people its a passion and so much more <3
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