• Editorial on music,
    The Band Wants To Play.

    “It’s more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play!” What great lyrics, one of those classics that were just so good that you wanted to go hug the band members. It’s funny how some people think this kind of music is depressing, the song has its sad things about it, but it’s not about sorrow. Boston wasn’t trying to make people cry, they were just expressing themselves through their music, saying they missed things about the old times. Some people think that music influences others, there's three reasons why I think this is not a valid jurisdiction. Firstly, the songs don’t go out and say “you must be sad” or “go kill yourself.” Also, the type of music does nothing; you can have angry classic rock, and sad heavy metal. Third, but not first, is the fact that some people think that heavy metal makes you angry, while classical makes you calm. The main point that I’m trying to prove is that music cannot throw your mind off balance, either it already was a bit lopsided or it was almost there.

    When you hear a song like “Behind Blue Eyes,” they don’t sing about how you should go and make yourself depressed, all the while keeping a bottle of anti-depressants on the side, just in case. It speaks of how the man is in his own little hell, that he can’t think happily because every time he tries, something bad happens and makes him look like a idiot for laughing. “…If I smile, tell me some bad news, before I laugh, and act like a fool!”

    Then, you have music that sounds happy and fun! You dance around, throwing your hands in the air, having a good time, noticing only awhile after that people are staring at you and asking if you have dyslexia of the ears. See, there’s some nice, classic rock song that are fun and make you want to just jig your heart out. But then you listen to the words, and instead of jigging that heart out, you want to empty it of all its liquid content. I’m exaggerating here, but you get the point, don’t you? Songs like “Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones sound good to dance to, like it’s a fun song. But then you listen carefully to the lyrics, and you think to yourself: “How awful! I was dancing to that?”

    Lastly and thirdly, the music you listen to can either depress you further, or it can help. With the majority, it is the latter. When you listen to a sad song because you feel sad, it helps bring the tears; those tears are like bleeding out an infection; it hurts less when you cry. Then when you are extremely angry, so angry that you just want to throw a pineapple at a red rose, you go and listen to some angry heavy metal. Notice the angry in angry heavy metal. Not all heavy metal is angry, and when you listen to this stuff, it saps the anger out of you until the song consumes you. In the end, you have a good time, and even forget you were angry at the guy that almost threw you into a bus; the rage just rolling off your shoulders.

    So, to end this once and for all, and put an end to this Music-Racism. Music Haters, do not hate, it helps some, and annoys others, just because you heard stories of a kid killing himself while listening to Ozzy’s CD, doesn’t mean that Ozzy killed him. Get to your nearest music store, grab something you think you might like, stuff those buds in your ears, and get lost in a world of psychedelic possibilities! Nah, just kidding, just don’t go throwing a kid’s iPod out the window, or he might well throw you out the window. Don’t lose your heads on music!

    BunNEe