Music

I have been meaning to write a blog post about music for awhile now but have not gotten around to it but here I go. I love music and everything it offers. I feel music demonstrates emotion and so does dance. All my life I have been around music like most of us. Either someone is playing it or someone is listening to it. I love to hear a beat and all of a sudden I feel my foot moving and my body swaying. I try to imagine what the next beat would be so I can keep up. In today’s society songs are written for pretty much everything. As it was in the past, music was a form of storytelling and a way to express ones idea. I feel that is still the same case today. In the West Indian community songs are often written about things people value the most such as rum, love, sex, revenge. For example a song was written called “bring the rum” which popular not just for the words but because of the rhythm that entices the people to get up and move. Music doesn’t only mean dancing, for some people music means sadness. I have often seen when a couple breaks up one will listen to break up songs in the hope of finding answers. At times I feel this can drown a person in more sorrows than anything else.