What Can You Fall Back On?

The answer is music. Of course. It's an obvious response to such a question, but what's it's significance? What comes with falling back on music? Peace and tranquility. Whether you're listening to hard core rock/ screamo music or singer/songwriter tunes, music is there to help you through life's crazy roller coaster rides.

The older you get, life throws more and more stress and experiences in your face. Most people would agree until you get to be about 65, when retirement is in arms reach. However, retirement has it's own levels of stress and definitely different experiences. The point is, 65-year-olds and 15-year-olds have music to fall back on when life gets a little too out-of-hand.

Hippies.

What does that mean to you? Drugs and rainbow tie-dye? The truth of the matter is Hippies are their own culture. Their lives usually incorporate drugs and peace signs, but music is still there for them. Music is the most non racist, unprejudiced, and inoffensive friend you will ever shake hands with in life.

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The Teenage Dream (featuring Katy Perry, as the artist)

Being a teenager, my job is to dream (and to stress out about everything). Teenagers dream about being rockstars, running away with their "true love", or doing enough to make their parents happy. The teenage dream, otherwise known as the "American dream" is to be famous. Katy Perry seems to have grasped that dream well enough to pursue it. Her new album, titled
Teenage Dream", explains the teenage dream in every song.

Katy Perry is known for her genuine creativity and colorful personality. She's naughty, no one is inclined to say otherwise, but that's why she's so popular. She sings out the good and the bad that comes with being a typical teenager.

In the music business, the second album is always the hardest one to pull off. The expectations tend to be high, the time constraints are usually even tighter and the audience tends to move on pretty quickly. Katy Perry's second album, "Teenage Dream" has fully avoided these problems. This albums could very well be considered "the best second album in pop history." Katy Perry introduced us to the chart-topping singles "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream," then the rest of the album was proved to be just as amazing.

The truth of the matter is why this album is so much stronger and better than most other Pop artists' second album. The answer lies in the consistency of the artist. Katy Perry showed no really weak songs in this album. "Peacock" shows the desire, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and "Circle the Drain" show the party-scenes, and "E.T." brings us all back to the original pop music. All of this makes up a a teenager. Music, parties, and lust is all part of being a teenager... making this album fully show the "teenage dream."

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In Times of Music: A New Birth

Music.
It's a word.
It's a melody.
It's a rhythm.
It's a life.

Time.
It's a second.
It's a heartbeat.
It's a trip.
It's an adventure.

But what does it mean when you put them together? Time and music? Separate they have one meaning, but when combined- a new birth.

In times of music,
the world is calm.
Peace.
The world is enjoyment.
Pleasure.

Yet the world is strange.
Music is strange.
One world meets another.
One word meets another.
One life meets another.
When combined-
a new birth.

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Musicophilia

"Suddenly, you hear a song in your head or out of seemingly nowhere find yourself anxious to play tennis. Things sometimes just come to us."-Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks is a famous neurologist and the author of Musicophilia. I was mesmorised by his connection between the art of music and the art of science. From reading the simple preface of his national best seller, I have created a new look on how music affects the human race. Musicophilia is a collection of essays and case studies on the role that music plays in the brain. One man develops a deep love of music after being struck by lightning, eventually teaching himself to play and compose for the piano. Another man, stricken with debilitating amnesia reawakens to the world every few seconds--only music allows him to remain in the moment for any duration of time.

Music has science, psychology, philosophy, art, and literature encorporated into it's melodies. "Although a teaspoon of Mozart may not make a child a better mathematician, there is little doubt that regular exposure to music, and especially active participation in music, may stimulate development of many different areas of the brain--areas which have to work together to listen to or perform music. For the vast majority of students, music can be every bit as important educationally as reading or writing." This quote, directly from Musicophilia, is flat out truth in easy words. Music changes the way our brain works and the way we are opened to other activities.

Not only can it change our brains' outlooks on life, but it's an LSD trip maximized through reality. Music takes us on an adventure of vibrant vibrations, melodies, rhythms, and tunes collaborated into an experience we deeply connect to. Whether people analyze it's deep core the way Oliver Sacks does or just listen and feel emotions, music touches lives.

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There's Still Music.

"Sometimes I'm lazy, I get bored. I get scared, I feel ignored. I feel happy, I get silly. I choke on my own words. I make wishes, I have dreams and I still want to believe anything can happen in this world for an ordinary girl."-Hannah Montana

'I am an ordinary girl and I love who I am.' I'm not a huge fan of Ms. Montana, but I do respect her and her music. When nothing else goes your way and you feel isolated from life itself, there's music to keep you breathing. For an ordinary girl, life gets harder than you think possible. For all the wonderful things that come with being a girl, there comes issues with wanting those that don't come easy.

Life gets tough every day through little things, but what happens when no one's there to help you through it? Every girl in the world needs a hand to hold. Music holds it's out proudly and fully extended. Sometimes we all get lazy and bored, silly and happy, and make wishes out of airplanes, but that's what makes us live longer. Those wishes on airplanes and dreams we keep in our hearts and minds keep us breathing one more breath.

When there's nothing else, when there's no one else, and even when there's no life to hear it, there's music.

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The Steps to Music

Music comes from different voices, instruments, and minds. What would happen if someone were to put those together? Answer: a miracle. Music is a miracle. It's not only a voice, an instrument, or a mind.. but it's all of those ingredients put together to make a cake of wonderment. Music comes in steps. Steps that, when followed, lead to a heaven of bliss.

There's steps to song writing, teaching, and presenting. Steps to song writing are more wobbly and unstable than the others. Song writing takes more mind to get to the top of the stairs. Song writing is the flour in a cake... a main ingredient but is nothing without other elements.

Steps to teaching are the cream in an oreo cookie. They hold together the outside strong and tight. Teaching music changes generations and keeps love and passion alive. Teaching strengthens minds of the teacher and student. Teaching helps music continue its development and inspire young lovers to it's roar.

And then there's steps to presenting and performance. These steps call few individuals in the right way.... Only few people hike these stairs without second guessing their reasons. They feel called to climb these mountainous stairs and get to the top to find happiness. These steps are solid, well-built, lusty, hefty, and rare. The steps to performance have to be strong and sturdy in order to keep it's hikers and travelers continuing their journey. If one of these steps is weak (self-doubtful), then the entire staircase falls to pieces.

When someone witnesses an entrance to this journey up the steps to music, they take that chance and put all their effort and life into getting to the top, for at the top is true peace, love, and joy.

Which steps will you take? Be strong every step of the way.

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Music Memories

How many times has a song come on the car radio and you've had to shut off everything else, pull over, and zone into the music? Most of the time it's because of the memories that song brings to mind. Music has an amazing connection to people in ways many don't realize. Whether it's a song playing at your high school dance or a song you heard while reconnecting with a friend, it's music that jogs your memory and keeps you calm in times of insanity.

Mood rings were the "in-style/ must-have" accessory when you were 5, but music was always there to change your mood. Blues and hip-hop can't be further apart in genre, but when it comes to your mood- they both cause changes. Soul music reminds you of sweet summer loving and treats your mind like calm ocean waves. Rap reminds you of crazy high school/college dances where you had not a fear in the world. If you work in the post office or at a Hospital ER, when a song comes on the radio that brings back memories, you find your self at peace with the world.

Written in 1697 by William Congreve, "music has charms to soothe the savage breast." This saying, usually misinterpreted to "music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," refers to your soul and how music hast the power (charm) to soothe your soul into a relaxed state, so why is the world not at peace? Why are we not at peace with the world? The world will never know....

The Mourning Bride, 1697, by William Congreve:

Music has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd,
And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd,
By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound.
What then am I? Am I more senseless grown
Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe!
'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs.
Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night
The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King;
He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd
Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom.
Why am not I at Peace?

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