I love music. I love music so much, maybe because I grew up in a culture centered house. I have said previously that my parents have spent their entire lives making sure that my siblings and I are submersed in culture. From movies to music to literature, everything my parents deemed important has surrounded me for my entire life. Especially because my father is a musician, with musician friends.
Growing up, my dad represented music as an entity. Almost all of our significant memories, at least for me, are centered around music. When I was really little, maybe seven or eight, there was this AC/DC poster that hung near the entrance of a hallway. I studied that poster for so long it became a figurehead in my memory. Now that poster hangs in my garage and serves as a reminder for the passage of time. A concept that I heavily use music to cope with, as well as the title of Pink Floyd’s greatest side.
I love music because I think it adds a third element to describing emotion. In math, things are often looked at in the 2D plane, meaning things generally operate on an X and Y axis, and nothing past that. At times, this is how using words to convey emotion can feel. However when you introduce a third plane, also known as Z, things are suddenly viewed in a much larger context. This is the equivalent of the introduction of music. I look at song lyrics that on paper seem so lackluster, and then listen to the song and it is an entirely different experience. It immediately represents something so much larger than me and becomes such a great way of articulating my feelings. I know this all seems contradictory coming from someone who aspires to write professionally but I think a quality of great journalism is a lack of bias.
It would be a lie for me to write that words are all one needs to express themselves. If that were the case we wouldn’t have the booming modern film or music industries that we do- and classics wouldn’t have stood the test of time. I think that words are an amazing mode of communication, but I think that further than words, is music.