There is NOTHING like...
Seeing your absolute favorite band
Play their first LA Show.
I found myself at the Troubadour on Santa Monica Blvd sandwiched between men that are too tall for me to stand next to and Justin Long, anxious to experience what I figured would be THE BEST show of my life. My lofty expectations were met. The Head and The Heart is the band to keep on your radar. With only one self-produced album of merely 10 songs, they stirred up the crowd with their clean sound. When you can pick out every single instrument and follow its notes in your head while being able to isolate any other sound (of the other instruments, of clinging beer bottles and groupies yelling the band's name), you know that the music is as pure as it can get.
La Vu's view on Music:
There are two, non-necessary things in the world that every single person on this earth enjoys: Movies and Music. Both are subject to endless judgment but neither is particularly prejudice. People's attraction to genres of music and one particular band over another is as random as our diverse population.
I want to say that when asked "What's your favorite kind of music?", the usual response is, "It depends on my mood." So is it the mood that determines the music? Or is it the music that determines the mood? How are they so interlaced and so relevant to each other? Feeling epic? There's a song for that. Feeling sad and sorry for yourself? There's a song for that too. Feeling like you've got to dance, like you've got to belt out a song in the car, like you've got to punch someone? There are songs...JUST for that. I came across an interesting online music platform called stereomood. Internet radio is not at all new to our generation, but what makes this one different from the rest is that users pick from moods and activities to find a playlist perfectly suited for that moment in time. Feel like crying? There's a song for THAT!
What's more? According to a post on Lemondrop.com, "music can make you smart...or dumb." Apparently, a study was conducted comparing people's favorite music as listed on Facebook to their SAT score. While I was highly amused by the fact that people who listed "Lil Wayne" on Facebook had the lowest SAT scores while those listing "Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens" had the highest, I hardly believe that music affects intelligence. It might actually be the other way around.
