Topic: Music
Difference, Hearing apposed to listening....
Me? I listen to it all everything from classical to rap to the Rat Pack to Opera (will admit don't listen to much of that gets irritating if I listen for long periods of time.) To 80's which I still love, Country you name it! It gets played in my house. Yep Rap can be disturbing The words can be harsh gansta drug demeaning w/e but...I figure it's like this better to have my kids listen to it with us so we can TALK about it all after all it'll come around at school! Don't know say what ya will. And yep my boy went to school in 2nd grade singing Gansta's Paradise ok maybe that was too young I will admit but......that is a memory no one will EVER take from him and Mike it was their turn it up play it loud song! Sing well wait.....rap the shit outta it song! My kids and I when Mike was deployed would blare Bob Marley while riding in my Cabrio it was said it's a Bob Marley moment when I would get depressed and off we would go for Sonic Slushies and cheese tater tots. Never mind the political BS he was singing it was the singing we were doing that mattered No Woman No Cry!
When you JUST listen to music you just listen bob your head tap your foot ya know sing along blah blah ya know the words but they mean nothing at all. I am not saying every song is meant to have meaning such as, T-Pain's Apple Bottom Jeans I mean hello??? I want Candy by Bow Wow Wow, The Dumb Song by Psychostik let's face it that is just hilarious! Of course I could go on and on and on. The point is again not all songs are meant to be anything but exactly what they are lyrics to make you sing, dance, or just laugh at the stupidity of it all.
However here we go the whole meat of the matter. HEARING a song means you feel a song in your heart in your soul. You know the meaning, it takes you in, you disappear into the melody, the words in those moments. This is a lesson I have taught my children from birth if you will and they learned it well. Music can be salvation in the worst of days and during the best of days bring you amazing joy and later provide amazing memories. Music can trigger memories that tug on your heart take you to a place where you want to be again or a place you despised and never want to revisit but the song plays on and the drummer beats with your heart and you listen and you know that even though that was a horrible time you were at your best. There are songs that would mean nothing, but I can take and within that same fraction of time flip words around and make them fit my situation my life at that time. There are songs my children find that they say are ours just ours my son has the same capability now to be able to flip a song. And he does. Amazing. Hayley plays music with passion and is getting better at it. Hears and loves it.
Anyway I suppose the whole reason I write this thing is cuz I was chillin' to some music this morning and it came across my mind while listening to Eddie Brickell and Trapt (that's the name of a band) . So I figured I would share my theory. Anyway y'all should try it! Good stuff and ya might just see a difference :)
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