I first started getting into music when I was like 8. That was back in 1998 when pop-powerhouses were taking over the world. And being at such young, influential age, I couldn't help but be sucked in. The Spice Girls got it started for me. Girl POWER! How could you not love them though? They were so badass. Me and my little group of friends in second grade use to pretend we were them. There was a redhead who we dubbed as Ginger, Baby Spice, Posh, I was Scary Spice, and no one wanted to be Sporty. Haha. We'd sing their songs all day long. "Spice Up Your Life", "Stop", "2 become 1", and all of their other great hits. Of course, they ended up breaking up and around the same time Britney Spears came out, along with N'sync, and the Backstreet Boys were already huge by than. I loved Britney, and I was all about some BSB. N'STINK sucked.
So that was cool for throughout my time in elementary school, and than the summer before I got into middle school was when I started getting into some real music: my number one passion, rock n' roll. The first song that really got me into it was Lifehouse's - "Hanging By A Moment". That's just such a great song. I got their album and rocked out to it all summer long. I also started listening to a lot of Linkin Park, Korn, Slipknot, etc. Anything that was hard and heavy was gold to me. I never got into the poser punk scene with Sum 41 and Blink 182, which was ridiculously huge than. By that time I had thankfully learned what real music was. Manufactured, radio-friendly crap just isn't for me.
By the time I was 13 I was listening to stuff like Norma Jean, Poison the Well, and Blindside. Mostly hardcore, but I'd branch out onto the indie scene occasionally. At this time I was very keen on sticking to my metal roots. Hip hop was getting evermore annoyingly popular, and pretty much every band under the sun was selling out.
In 2003 I moved to Atlanta, where rap/hip-hop is all over the place, and I couldn't help but catch on to a song here or there. Lil Jon was huge, and I love him, but that's pretty much the extent of my interset. For the most part, the genre is just full of shit, and I know other genres have their shitty ends too, but at the end of the day, it just ain't my thing. If a great song just happens to come around, I'm all over it, but for the most part, I'll stick to my preferences.
Anyway, a little after that I quit listening to music for a couple of years while I was with my ex-boyfriend. He never listened to music so it didn't really remain a priority. I'd listen to a couple of songs here and there, but no where near as much as I'd use to. In some ways that was a good thing because most of what came out than wasn't anything special. But hell, it's still like that today.
Once we broke up though I easily found home with music again. By this time I had opened myself up to all sorts of genres. I didn't care if it was pop, rock, techno, just as long as it was good song, and I still feel like that today. I just love music, it just speaks to my soul. I have my opinions here and there about it, of course. I can be pretty bias or really open minded. In the end though, it's all about what connects to you.
Music, along with all art, has a way of cradling one's soul. It can can comfort, enrage, or bring you to tears. That's just what make it so beautiful.
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