Music. Sometimes it seems like it is the only thing that understands me. There are all these songs out there that describe exactly what I'm feeling even when I can't. I was thinking about rhetorical analysis, and I realized songs are arguments wrapped up in three minutes filled with voice and style and tone. Basically like an argument burrito. Everything really is an argument.
If you think about it, music could be the most effective argument there is. It's pleasing to our ears, we want to hear it. The lyrics are packed with events or feelings we can relate to, building the argument's believability/credibility. They pull on our emotions. We laugh. We cry. We smile. We rage. And all of this we do with music.
Looking through my iPod I noticed the majority of my songs were about love. I think plenty of people could look through their own playlists and say the same. Why? I think people's lives are centered around love. Giving it. Receiving it. Losing it. Sometimes we have no idea how to put it into words and when we find that perfect way to verbalize it we want to scream it to everyone so the whole world knows or we just want to keep it to ourselves as our own little secret.
Love is all about support. Loving means supporting. Losing love leaves you in need of support. Music offers us a different kind of support. It supports us by finding our feelings, even if there are no words. It supports us by showing we aren't alone.
It all ends up going back to being an argument. Music is about love. Love is about supporting. Good arguments need support.
Love the ending.
ReplyDelete"...an argument burrito..." Ha. Love it.
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