Music & Me: Reflections

After posting our 'Music & Me' song selections, the following lesson we went round the class and discussed our choices. The large majority of people had confessed their younger guilty pleasures; from S Club 7 and Steps to Spice Girls and Atomic Kitten. We had all basically admitted that when we were younger we would all listen to the same sort of music, especially all the mainstream pop music, as a sort of 'follow-the-crowd' theme. It was 'cool' back then to all listen to the same pop-py music, ones we could scream all the lyrics to at parties, jump and air guitar along to. It still is pretty 'cool' to do that, and there's no point denying that we still don't scream along to songs during parties, but our music taste has all broadened and become more unique.



For example in my last post I had written that my favourite artist is Taylor Swift, but she is barely ever played on the radio over here in the UK. I'm pretty sure I found out about her on the internet, searched her on YouTube, downloaded the rest of her albums and fell in love with her music style. As we also discussed during the lesson, a lot of our favourite artists when we older were found using the internet, showing that we're not always just listening to whatever DJs are making us listen to.
Quite a few people also said that a lot of the music they listen to were found through different TV shows, which I can totally relate to as well. A lot of the music I download now are from TV show soundtracks, for example Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries, expanding the genres that I listen to.
Music can also be all about promotion, for example if one of your favourite bands talks about another band, you're almost definitely going to search them up because you may like their music too. For example NeedToBreathe are an American band which barely no one has heard of, but as they were supporting Taylor Swift on her Speak Now Tour, I searched them up and currently love their new album.



So to summarise, we basically realised how music is all around us, and how people can influence our music tastes greatly. When we were younger it was all about what your friends and family were listening to, nowadays it's more of what you can search out; what media can show you, whether it be the internet, TV or films.
All in all I think that music is a great way of communicating; you can convey a message through lyrics, you can create a conversation with someone new if you have similar tastes - it's just been a large part of my life to be honest. I listen to music every morning when I wake up and when I'm lying in bed at night, so it was really fun and interesting to see what music means to me, and all my other classmates.