Metallica
Although some people regard metal music as untalented noise and not real music, I happen to have a more open mind. I’ve never known love for another band like the love I feel for Metallica. The relationship I have with Metallica is not simply because I can jam to it while I drive my convertible in the summer. I do not only love Metallica for its music, I love it for its authenticity. Music is a revealing art form and Metallica represents having principles and goals, but struggling along the way. Standing steadfast and strong for morals, but giving into temptation, as we all do. Losing a loved one and mourning. Relapsing back into addiction. Letting loved ones down. Regret. Bitterness. Resentment. Life. Metallica represents life.
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I now suffer with frequent nightmares. This has been my reality for 7 years. To this day, if I wake up from a nightmare or cannot sleep, I play one of my favorite songs, “The Unforgiven III”. This song helps me to daydream and lets my mind drift off to sea, so to speak. The lyrics relate the troubles and pain of life to the sea, adventure, and gold. We seek the gold or life but never expect the unforgiving sea and storms of life to throw us off course. This song helps me to use my imagination and to distract from my nightmares so that, eventually, I can fall back asleep. I can imagine sailing and smelling the sea and seeing shiny gold. To me, this song means he was taking control of his life until he was “pulled off course by the light of golden treasure” (Metallica, 2008). Then he falls into a depression, “These days drift on inside a fog it’s thick and suffocating” (Metallica, 2008) and he becomes psychologically defeated by it. At night, I feel defeated by my past and wonder if there is any escape. Listening to the lyrics and rhythmic beat is a healing process for me. It’s a ritual in which I can temporarily let go and cry. I am alone and safe to feel. I do not have to struggle to relate to the feelings the lyrics are expressing because I have lived them. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music” (Huxley, n.d.). Metallica knows my life without even
Over time I began to utilize music’s powers as a form of self-therapy. I remember recently doing this to help me get over the pain of an awful breakup. I was the most depressed that I have ever been in my life. I no longer wished to talk to or hang out with my friends, I no longer enjoyed any of my favorite activities, and all I wanted to do was sleep all day. I was miserable. Finally, I could not take it anymore. I had to do something to fix it and fast so I decided to turn to my most trusted therapist to do the job: my iTouch.
On November 7th, 1943, Joni Mitchell was born as Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Canada. Her family eventually moved to North Battleford and then Saskatoon; both of which are cities in the Saskatchewan providence of Canada. She considers Saskatoon, Canada to be her hometown. At the young age of nine years old, Mitchell contracted polio, but she managed to recover and regain her ability to walk after a stay in the hospital. Joni Mitchell’s interest in folk music began in her adolescent years. She was self-taught on how to play the ukulele and ultimately, the guitar. Mitchell started performing at parties and among the folk songs sang were some original ones she wrote herself. Thus, Joni Mitchell’s songwriter and singer career began. She, however, was more interested in pursuing art at the time.
Did you know that Ozzy Osbourne came over sex, drug, and alcohol addiction. He did this by getting help from a lot of people.
Growing up I remember my mom turning the music up whenever she heard a good song. The only genre, she listened to was country so I grew up loving country music. I now turn the music up whenever I hear a song Luke Bryan wrote because his music is so good. Growing up Luke Bryan was a normal child, but over the 20 or more years, so many devastating things have happened to his family that are hard for Bryan and his family to get over.
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“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music” (Billy Joel). Although most listeners may not have the same technical experience in music as Billy Joel, it is easy enough to see the effect it has in a person's every day life. Music has the ability to pick us up when we are down, carry you back in time to a cherished memory, and transform silence into a symphony that can move one to tears. Music therapy is simply an application of the life that music creates.
It is true that music has a compact link to our emotions. Music assists people to overcome the bad situations in their life, just like it did for Sonny, the barmaid, or some other people in the Harlem. Music has a tremendous effect on people’s minds because it makes them feel relaxed and comfortable, especially with the soft classical music. It helps distressed people stay smooth and peaceful. In fact, music is a remarkable way to ease stress.
Studies have demonstrated that certain sorts of rock music can heighten feelings. This means youth and adolescents who are inclined to negative, fierce, or depressive contemplations are more prone to have these sentiments (and follow up on them). By the same accord, youngsters who are characteristically content and happy are more averse to have the negative verses in specific tunes influence them in any capacity. To them, it’s simply entertainment (Kwan,
British musical sensation Ed Sheeran has made a meteoritical rise into mainstream pop culture in recent years, but has been the unfortunate victim of commercialization of his public image, yet his music has for the most part maintained its authentic ingenuity and sincerity. Sheeran has developed a niche sound of genuine, heartfelt lyrics accompanied by an acoustic guitar, always played by Sheeran himself. His concerts consist of him on a stage with a looping pedal and a rotating cast of guitars. Unlike most performances by mainstream artists, who usually have an instrumental accompaniment, Sheeran creates his backing sound using only his voice and a guitar. His style could be labelled as “stripped-down” in comparison to other pop artists.
Using music in heavily cathartic, self-healing ways is no new concept for Phil Elverum, but his 2017 release A Crow Looked at Me took this part of him to the next level. It didn’t hold back from delving into every crushing detail of the loss of his wife and its detriment on his emotional health. This level of honesty is something I expect to hear more in art, but artists tend to dance around the topic or water down their pain since it tends to feel like a private thing to so many people. But delivering the devastating facts about dealing with something as life-shattering as this is a rarely genuine moment and comes across as more relatable than the artist might expect, making a project like this one to pay close attention to.
have always had an unexplainable affect on my life. Music seems to have the ability to
As I matured and secured new experiences, music became less of my foundation and more of a reminder. As I would listen to certain songs in times of triumph and extreme contentment with life, the songs would resonate through and serve as a symbol for that time in my life. The beauty of the links that my soul acquired between the songs and influential times in my life is that I could re-access the feelings, memories and intellect I gained at those times just by listening to the songs again. For instance, whenever I hear ‘What You Know’ by Two Door Cinema Club, I am greeted by the warmth of this time of year. Fall is my all time favorite season, and this time last year as I would cruise in my Audi TT, windows down, on alluring mountain roads laced with golden aspens, the happiness I had comes right back anytime I hear that song. Another example is the song ‘Take a Back Road’ by Rodney Atkins. Anytime I hear that song, I am transported into last summer when I would embrace summer to the fullest with that song as the
On first instinct, it does sound very ironic and unusual for a heavy metal band to sing a love song when a typical heavy metal band incorporates elements of distorted electric guitars, harsh vocals and fast tempos. Metallica most likely wanted to experiment with a completely different musical style as well as singing about something different when recording Nothing Else Matters.
Let yourself just drift off and listen to the lyrics. Demons, a very well known song by this group, is one of the most powerful song I have ever heard. This whole song mirrors the our existence so immaculately that it is terrifying. The overall meaning of the song can be boiled down to this: We all hold demons within ourselves whether it’s depression or a different kind of disorder and when we fall into our ‘demons’ sometimes it can seem almost impossible to go back to who you used to be. They try to put on a mask, but occasionally the real them will slip out. The ones we look up to are just the same as us on the inside. These demons can corrupt everything that we hold dear and can turn this world into a place that no one wants to live in anymore. However, there will always be a shred of hope no matter how small it may seem or what form it comes in. No matter the song each one has their own specific meaning and all seem to deal with problems that we face
These tunes make known the downside of the enjoyable, glamorous, and dangerous drugs that people of all classes of society use everyday. They give off vibes of hopelessness and emphasize painful words and phrases. They describe how quickly something can go from a little relaxing self medication to a full out need. These songs help us to realize the consequences of losing control over our actions and help us to appreciate consciousness and life without addiction.