Music

Music. It's all around us. It's in the car when we drive. It's in our rooms when we're studying, chilling, whatever, it's in our ears when we're droing out the boring teacher. It's everywhere. Even when it doesn't seem like music, simple beats follow us. The beat of one's heart or footsteps. The rhythmic sounds of waves crashing against the shorelines. No matter where we go in life, music is everywhere.

It comes from all cultures, religions, and backgrounds. It comes in many different styles. I am not one of those lucky people blessed with the gifts to play music, but I do appreciate it. I consider myself tolerant to all forms of music. I like pretty much everything. Sometimes I will not like the lyrics to something, but I will find myself enjoying the beat behind it. Of all the different types of musical genres I listen to. I would have to say indie, rock, punk, emo/screamo, and worship are my favorites.

After spending countless hours over the years searching bands, becoming obsessed with one and another and another, I've come up with a pretty decent list of bands that I enjoy. But being who I am, there are some things I try to stay away from because, despite how good the beat behind something is, I just can't listen to it because of it's message it sends out to the world.

Some of my top favorite bands are Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, Escape the Fate, Skillet, 30 Seconds to Mars, Boys Like Girls, Hellogoodbye, Flyleaf, and a bunch of others. I just recently fell in love with the band Blessthefall.

I'm the type of person who likes to get into a band, I'll search all I can to find out more about the members and found out more about the bands origins and all that good stuff. Not to be a stalker, but to see if this is a band I can really consider a favorite.

A lot of my favorite bands are Christian. If the band itself isn't Christan then the members are, if that makes sense. But what annoys me about Christian bands are the members sometimes. (I'm not saying any of these bands are the ones that annoy me. There's a reason they're still favorites!). It's like, in interviews, they'll go on this big speech about "yeah, we're a Christian band" and when a fan meets them or something they turn out to be complete jerk-offs. >_<

But yes, all in all, music is great. It's a great way to escape whatever's going on in life and a chance to just relax and let lyrics take one away. (: