Cindy Valdez Duran
11/2/10
Period 7
English honors
The Great Escape
When was the last time you listened to music to escape? I believe that music is an escape. Although people say that music is just “a bunch words" it’s really not its more. The people usually music to express themselves it it’s like an escape from the real world.
Music sounds simple right? Wrong, as said in the online dictionary “music is an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.” In English it says a type of art using instruments and voices in a constant repetition.
Taylor swift -a very popular and well liked country singer- sits in a room and writes. It’s an escape when she feels alone but them she’s not alone she is on stage and she knows the people listening to her singing and playing her music understand. An artist tries to create a type of space." In other words another world where they can go and break loose from confinement, the confinement that is the real world. “Music means everything and nothing. It is the universal language of emotion, a way for the artist and audience to process and understand something they might not be able to otherwise. But it is subjective and therefore what means everything to someone could mean nothing to someone else. But there in lies the magic.” -, Erin
My friend is a writer. One day she was really sad and did not know how to express herself so I told her “maybe you should write a poem or a song. And then it occurred to her “maybe I should write.” And she did and she told me she felt like she was some where else. I think that anyone could do the same whether it be about how sad they are or how happy. It will help. Think about something as simple as writing a haiku and making it into a song and then using the piano to ass music to it and then record it and having people say “oh I felt like that once she understands “ . Music is an alternative for almost everyone. People listen to it because it means something because its an escape. Even the shortest song was written for a reason.
What do you think about this line “Its a shame that it had to be this way its not enough to say I’m sorry its not enough to say I’m sorry"- Secondhand Serenade. What do you think about this line? Can you feel what they feel? Or how they felt on the moment. How about this, “Don’t need nothing but a good time?”- Poison. Can’t you just picture you self having a good time as if you were in Chuck E. Cheese or the mall or just somewhere else?
Although most people don’t realize it they listen to music as a way to get out and get into the way the person was feeling hen they wrote the song when they wrote the music. Music is everything to me. It’s what I listen to when I wake up. What I sing what I go to sleep. It’s my escape. It’s an escape.