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Music Is...

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By Clayton HeaddPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
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Music Is...
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So many people think of music as just something to be played whilst dancing senselessly at a party, downing your 4th budweiser or as a background to a car ride that is actually being occupied by conversation. This is how alot of people see music and they couldn’t be more wrong. They see it as a string of cool lines and hooks wrapped up together nicely on a super sick beat. Well, for me music is much more than that. Music is the most creative way someone without a “voice” can make themselves be heard. It’s like a podium that no doubtledly will reach across the oceans and across living room stereos and across subwoofers in an old pick up truck. One song may have one type of sound but at the same time it makes you think of so many different things at once. Music in my opinion is way stronger and way deeper than people give it credit for. One tempo, 5 different songs, 10 different messages between those lyrics and 100+ people reached in a matter of minutes. That...that is definitely something to behold. Imagine being able to say something so powerful and get it out to that many people with just one hook on a song. The creative process alone is usually under appreciated. Usually because rappers now adays can just go into a studio and lay down something that just comes to their minds. However, as a writer myself, that process in itself is so vulnerable and so raw that it can only be described in the work of art that it creates. Yes alot of songs are trivial and simple minded and to be frank outright dumb. But it is still someone’s feelings, someone’s words, something the person had to say that just couldn’t be said in a normal daily conversation for whatever reason. I think that’s why I write music because its just so much more than people give it credit for. It’s freeing even though some see it as being restricted by a piece of paper and a pen,... but the most beautiful thing about any writing is that you get decide what goes on it and its amazing. Music is no different, youre only adding catchy beats and finger snapping, head nodding grooves to allow those that do not feel as deeply about the work as you do to at least move their body or senselessly sing the lyrics along with the radio. Music is a huge part of my life and the freedom it gives feels like no other.

Feel free to argue with me. I would not think ill of you to say that music is literally just an excuse for someone to dance in public without looking foolish, or that I’m thinking too deeply into this and that anyone can just put words on a beat and have a hit song. I wouldn’t be upset because it is true. However if that is the view you hold, then you and I have very different definitions of music and I’m just here to give you the actual definition of it and what it means to so many soul singers, talented rappers, even in the opera. Music stems back from so long ago that people have lost its meaning as its gone along, so much so that we have people making millions off of a one line song that only takes up 10% of the song while the other part says yeah and oh 90% of the time. Do you see where true, avid writers would feel as if this were a slap in the face? Again let me state that I do not see anyone who holds this view in a bad manner, thats not what this is about. This is about music being a lifeline to so many, a way out of a bad situation, a way to provide for their families, a way to find themselves in a creative manner (whether they be the writer or the listener), a way to just use all of your talents at one time simply saying how you feel about yourself and things around you. Thats true music and the beauty of it.... that is why I write.

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