experienced only ifit is heard.
I love how songs can take you back in time to a moment that is either good or bad, something that is not tangible that can have that effect still astonishes me to this day.
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taking me closer and closer to who I wanted to be in the privacy ofa child's bedroom
When I was a child, I had this big silver boombox that was given to me by my grandmother. Every night after school, I would tune into this local radio station that played everything from 00s rock to pop, to hip hop, and even rap. I would then have these talent shows where the performers would be my collection of stuffed animals who would sing hits from The All American Rejects and all the way to Fergie. That is where I believe my musical obsession began.
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My attachments to the music were so strong precisely because I felt-unquestionably, unflinchingly-that the music was mine
As much as I love a song that is pretty cut and dry and is explicitly about what it is about, I love songs that have a sense of ambiguity to them. Chris Cornell of Audioslave did a fantastic job keeping the meaning of his songs hidden because he wanted his listeners to formulate a meaning that pertains specifically to them; that way, the music never dies and is always relevant.
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There was always more to hear
I remember hearing my mother and father always say "Ahh, this song reminds me of college." And I never really understood that because there was never a song that reminded me of a specific time in my school until I got to college and was exposed to numerous different genres and styles of music. Now, I keep a notebook with lessons I have learned while being at K but I also keep a log of what song I found that epitomizes that quarter at K.
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tapes,
Although I never really experienced what it was like to purchase vinyls, I do remember briefly looking for CDs in the Best Buy music section and looking for artists that I knew from Guitar Hero. I wish that CDs were still prevalent today; I believe that holding a physical copy of a song holds way more value than having it on one's phone.
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When I was growing up in West Los Angeles, my parents gave me a weekly allowance for doing things I should have been doing anyway: cleaning my room, washing the dishes, taking out the garbage. I was supposed to spend the money on weekend food, movies, and arcade games, but I never did. Instead, I would get on my silver BMX street bike, ride down streets that I knew I would see later that night in episodes of CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch, and Charlie's Angels (we lived blocks from the original 20th Century Fox studios backlot), and raid the bins at a used record store that kept its vinyl in musty standing crates too close to the street windows, its cassettes stacked in locked Plexiglas display cases
This screams 80s, I love it. And I believe I can see where this is going.
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