Music is great. The music you like is great. But you have to wonder, does music mess with your mind. Honestly I think it can but not in every case, at least not in mine.
Suresh, whom I work with said this to me and to the other guys I work once while we were having drinks. I kinda lost what he said but I just asked him again. What he was basically saying is that most people just listen to music for the sake of listening to it but if you ananlyze/study it you might see the darker side of the music. The side that's not just fun but complicated...I presume. Sometimes people take music too seriously and too literally. Some live their life by it. Music can get complicated or change you. For some it does non of that. That's because they are not obsessed. They don't listen to a certain piece of music day in and day out. I have to tell you, music may affect me but not that much. Sure I am obsessed but then again, it's all just for pleasure purposes only. I leave it at that. I enjoy it, I sing to it (always wanting to know the lyrics of songs) and I dance to it. But for me it's just a song. Someone wanted to send across a message in a song but that message is not really directed to me. And if it was I would just ignore it and just simply enjoy it. That's how it is for me. But then as Suresh was saying, there could be another side to it. It could mess with your mind with a sort of subliminal message. What is the real meaning behind it? Sure it's just a song but what kind of song? Suresh said or Hisham (another guy I work with) said there was a song called Black Sunday and a few people who listened to that song (probably too much) commited suicide some days later. That might be some sort of subliminal message but who knows. I don't and I don't want to find out. Commiting suicide over a song? That's just crazy.
So the moral of the story is you should stick to simpler music which won't mess with your head. That is something I won't be doing though because some simpler music is too boring. Another thing, try not to take it to seriously and just enjoy it. That's what I need to do.
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Hey good stuff here ... To quote this great movie which is based on this great book, "What came first? The music or the misery? ... Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listen to pop music?" ... Makes u think ..
Hey brainjuice,
thanks for checking out my new blog. I haven't been checking my blogs but today I finally did. I went to my old when and then came here to hopefully come up with something to post.
That's a good quote you wrote. It does make you think. Glad you like what I wrote.
So let me know when you have your new blog up and running and what the URL is.
I already put up a link to my other blog on my main one ....
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