"Music is usually telling a story. Not always, but most times." Those words made the hazy night driving home in her 2005 Sequoia down a major street in LA county stick with me my entire life. Little me accepted it as fact, when you older you start to question everything that has ever been told to you. No matter how many times I try to detach music from this meaning, I just can't. Are the lyrics non-sensical? Are they not telling a story at all? Even if there is no visualizer, no music video, and no lyrics.. we as humans tend to append our own stories and feelings and life experiences to pure sound. Art tells a story through our own conscience.. We view everything through our own lense of life. Art is what we make it.
Everyone has that album or band that is *theirs* even if they didn't make it. Something they highly connect to and is their favourite thing to hear. I can tell you now that I have one of those albums for almost every genre, or year! I love every genre. Yes. Even country.
I grew up in a very musical household. Not in the sense that instruments were taught and played by every member of the family, but in the sense that everyone was very passionate about music. There was always music playing in some way. It made our home complete.
In my ears: