There's just something about even the simplest of pop songs, if done in seriousness that allows me to feel. To feel deeply.
I think the most important thing is heart.
Heart meaning genuine emotion, after all how can a listener be inspired to feel something by something fake, something not real.
Maybe movies came to mind, television shows, acting. Its a game of pretend that is, but yet audiences can laugh, can cry, can sigh as the characters on the screen go through their own fake emotions and fake conflicts. The thing is, actors have to feel too.
When you perform, if you're only acting, the audience can tell. The best performers know that they have to feel what they expect to let the audience feel.
Still, in the end, music connects with my soul the deepest.
Maybe its cause I'm impatient. After all, if I'm sad, I won't sit myself down to watch a tv show or movie. I'll plug myself down to a sad song for three or four minutes of indulgence.
Then again, if I don't replay the song I usually go over to the next sad song, and if I want I can keep at it for hours.
I don't know, I find something very personal about music. Maybe its that you only need one person and an instrument to produce music, or as some might argue, simply a voice.
Its like a confessional, writing a song. Especially with some songwriters. Those who draw deeply from personal experiences. A lot of times its about telling a story. A story of a person. A real person.
Of course it can be made up sometimes.
I don't know. In the end it is like movies and tv I suppose.
A story to tell. Heartbreak, love, grief.
Don't really need another reason to listen now do you?
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