My Synthesis Essay

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Being born in the Philippines, my uncle would always blast the stereo around the time of December and I would regularly peer at the window on the second floor to look at the fireworks while also checking to see if my mother came home. Since Filipinos love to celebrate Christmas with their families, numerous amounts of people would gather in a group to perform or listen to music. After some time, my family moved to the United States for more job opportunities as well as a better life. Growing up in West Covina, California, I learned more about myself through music when I acquired violin and piano skills. Now, I recently turned seventeen on the 16th of February and I have turned into a free-spirited young adult. This soundtrack as a whole represents …show more content…

I hope I gain an understanding about myself as well as a connection with other people through this project. Since I am very picky when it comes with sharing music with other people and I decided to pick these eight songs, I see myself listening to this music later in life as well as being more confident in my music. With this project, I received the chance to sort out all my once messy list of songs to a well-organized playlist. I hoped that with my soundtrack, I acknowledged the power and impact of music along with its effect on the moods on others. Like Charlie, Music helped me vent my negative emotions when I was younger when I needed to calm myself down or when I needed to focus on doing my homework. I also managed to listen to Charlie’s mixtape and relate to him as …show more content…

Granted this is the first and only song without lyrics, but that’s what makes it unique. In my opinion, this song overall encompasses the tendency to be misunderstood, because sure it does sound sad but it's still beautiful. Next is “Kids” by MGMT and in my interpretation, it shows the different stages in life. First, you start out as an innocent child in a world, with a beautiful smile that could make any parent proud. As you grow older you begin to lose your innocence and fall into societies ways and you begin to lose the meaning of the actual important things in life. I feel this songs represents a constant battle between good and bad, and the lyrics are from the singer’s experience. This beautiful song reminded me to be satisfied the things given to me which led to the next song “Nothin’ On You” by B.o.B. This song made me reminisce about the past and to my interpretation this song is about wanting to pursue something and then letting it go when you feel like going forward with it is pointless to do so. The fourth song is called “Bad Blood” by Bastille and unlike the previous songs, this track is about a past friendship that went sour. During high school, we lose friendships but that’s part of growing up. The song after and the fifth song is “Try Again” by Aaliyah. Even if this song came before I existed, I would hear this song on the radio and it inspired me to try. With that, the next song is “Starboy”

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