So tonight I had a long overdue session with my iTunes and the relatively new application "genius." This has resulted in more than a CD's worth of new music for me to feast my ears upon.
Sometimes I forget just how life giving music can be. Music can be the what brings you up out of your blues, or it can help to intensify whatever it is you're feeling in the moment. Whether that feeling is sadness, happiness, insecurity, hope, music seems to draw emotions out in an even purer form. Now most people would take a listen through my most played on iTunes and think that I'm depressed or sad, but actually I just love my music slow, heartfelt, and emotional. I mean every now and again a dance party is in order. But when I'm working, cooking, falling asleep, walking, driving, or just hanging out, I'd prefer to listen to music that has feeling, meaning, lyrics.
I love music dripping with the angst of the musician. I need to feel music in my heart, and that might not even make sense, but its how I feel. Music helps me to clear my head, which isn't an easy thing to do. Deeply lyrical songs help me to express what I'm feeling when I can't find my own words to do so.
I'm totally that girl you see belting her little heart out while she's driving down the highway. And, yes, it usually is actually my heart. When I'm upset I can rarely put what I'm feeling into words and it usually ends up with me crying or just mumbling incoherently. I find that music speaks the words that I can't bring myself to say, whether they are angry or heartbroken or happy, music speaks for me when I can't myself.
Long story short, tonight has been very cathartic for me and has been long overdue. Thank goodness for iTunes and for new music to express myself.
Check out some of the artists I found tonight:
Yael Naim, Caroline Herring, Chris Pureka, Tina Dico, Kerri Noble, Gregory Alan Iskanov (ok so I found him a while ago, but I'm love him!)
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