Music and Friends
Yesterday I skyped with a friend in GA, today I skyped with a dinner party of friends in TX. I think I like skype, lol
Earlier Das and I were discussing my music vs his music and what makes mine so annoying (to him) we got onto the thought that black music has a very extreme emotional range, it tends to make you want to jump all around or be very very sad. He hates that.
I explained that at least for me music like this gives me a place to express all the emotions I've gotten so good at keeping contained b/c I can't be the angry black woman, or the hysterical girl, or a drama queen... In music I can get as dramatic as I want to without censure. Sure most of what I listen to is classified as pop but it's pop that speaks to me on some level.
I'm aware that other groups do this such as the expressing of teen angst through heavy metal or punk. I think that letting music be for you what you cannot be for yourself is a part of the human condition to some degree or other.
Earlier Das and I were discussing my music vs his music and what makes mine so annoying (to him) we got onto the thought that black music has a very extreme emotional range, it tends to make you want to jump all around or be very very sad. He hates that.
I explained that at least for me music like this gives me a place to express all the emotions I've gotten so good at keeping contained b/c I can't be the angry black woman, or the hysterical girl, or a drama queen... In music I can get as dramatic as I want to without censure. Sure most of what I listen to is classified as pop but it's pop that speaks to me on some level.
I'm aware that other groups do this such as the expressing of teen angst through heavy metal or punk. I think that letting music be for you what you cannot be for yourself is a part of the human condition to some degree or other.
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