Cosmic Certainty
Ahem..... if you'll excuse me. I'm about to start. I would first like to thank you all for coming. I realize that the circumstance of this impromptu meeting is both regretable and unwelcome. Now please let us throw caution to the wind and begin with a question. Can music save a life? Do harmonized notes have the power to crescendo our spirits strait out of depression and into a light airy mood? Music is a medicine that needs no percription. It is amazing the illness a song may cure. If your anxious, something calm. If your restless, something fast. If you feel as though no one else on this earth could possibly ever feel as undone as you at a certain moment, something that understands. Music, my friends is the language of the heart. I have been saved by music and I write this with the certainty that I am not the only one.
Ask Kurt Cobain
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:50 PM
i think music can save.
fame and other things can distort the big picture.
Posted by
Anonymous |
11:59 AM
If music can save it's not in any direct form. If anything you are relating the songs that apparently "save your life" to the initial time you listened to them, and associating them with those happy times.
If you don't buy that then read up on mirror neurons. The emotional reflection of what our senses precieve is very powerful.
Posted by
Alex |
12:17 AM
I'll comply only if you agree that by watching Biodome my life can be saved.
If music can save a life then EVERYTHING can save a life, if it has the right influence. I don't think it's "can music save a life?" but rather, on a psychological basis specific songs can give you a good feeling based on association.
I think people give too much glory to music in that light. I'll admit it's great, and it generates some great creative ideas, but it's not like it will save us all on a cloud of whimsy and wonder.
Posted by
Alex |
12:03 AM
I'll forgive the it's and its, the article was a minefield of yours and you'res. Brendan used to flip if I had a slight grammar error.
Posted by
Alex |
12:04 AM
When I listen to a song, I think about the feeling it gives me, not always what it's truly about. If a song gives me love - makes me love - then I am probably saved for those three minutes. I know music that has given inspiration and the will to survive to certain friends. Maybe this hasn't happened for me yet, but I can be very ungrateful. If someone saved my life, I'd probably step out into the street without looking and get hit by a bus.
Maybe you don't know what I mean and maybe I don't either. But do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable? Or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?
We can float either way with this one kiddos.
Posted by
Matt |
2:38 AM