Perhaps I don't blog much because I wait for something that really inspires me. Or maybe it's because I'm busy, or a bad writer, or feel like nothing I'm doing is all that exciting.
This morning I'm blogging because I feel inspired. This morning I was watching the CMT's Artist of the Year show and so I have music on the mind. I think part of what I love about my current job is that I get to listen to, research and be exposed to such a variety of types of music. Why do we love music though?
I think for me, it says things that I can't find the words to say. It captures the way I feel and helps me experience that emotion. Whether it's happiness, sadness, excitement or just of course, love.
So clearly, by writing this I have to have some songs in mind. So of course I will share a few
I absolutely love Lady Antebellum. They are probably my favorite music group and have been for the last two years. Their music is incredible and their live show is amazing as well (anyone interested in going this summer, let me know!) Their current single, I think captures perfectly the feeling I have about my first love and I think brings me back to being 18 and leaving him behind for college. Dancing Away With My Heart
Clearly an artist and album so many people related to this year is of course Adele. No doubt that Someone Like You is the best breakup song, well, maybe ever. I think we've felt what I know Adele has captured here. Her whole album, again, nails it in my opinion. It's no wonder it's the top selling album of the year.
It's no secret that many of my friends are getting or got married recently. When I think about their weddings, and my own (no, you didn't miss anything mine isn't anytime soon) I just love this song by Carrie Underwood. Mama's song. Clearly, my mother will be the one to give the blessing to my future husband and will be the one to give me away. I would imagine this expresses what I would want to say to her.
What's the song that pumps me up? Inspires me? The one I reach to when I need that push. It's gotta be Natasha Bedingield Weightless . Sent to be by two different friends last year, it certainly captures how I want to live, and how I look at my days.
On that same note, what song inspires me professionally? It has to be back to my homies Lady A with I Was Here. Never was a single of theirs but it's a great one.
Thinking back, I know Michelle Branch You Get Me is one that I've always loved. Partially because I'm weird and partially because it really captured at the time how I felt about someone and how I feel about myself. Who wants to be ordinary, in a crazy mixed up world?
What's the song that connects me to big Pete? There are so many, he was the biggest music fan and has impacted my musical taste a great deal. So I can't pick one. The interesting thing about Mariah Carey and Boys 2 Men One Sweet Day is that it is a song he loved so much when he was alive. I remember the first time he heard it, we went to get the single on cassette tape (yeah, I went there) from the store and he listened to it on repeat (a habit I've defiantly inherited). We have home video after home video of Peter, Dad and I singing this song. Many of the videos include us performing to people we've since lost along the way. What I truly appreciate about this song is that while he never said it, I think it helped him connect to his dad who passed when my dad was in his early 20s. I promise the link about is the official video not a clip into our family films.
So my list could go on, no doubt. Music depends on your mood of course. As many of you may know I taught a freshman seminar this semester (which I LOVED). Their final project was to develop a playlist (in small groups) to capture their semester (they also presented it and wrote a paper). While the assignment was fun for me to read and grade I think I also realized that music truly does capture for us a feeling, and experience and while I read their papers could appreciate so much their song choices. Of course, songs like Bruno Mars The Lazy Song were popular they each had a song or two on their cds that connected them to home. To their families and I can for sure understand that.
So tell me...what songs capture how you feel?
