VOD Assignment 2 : Music, Music, I obsessed with you

There are lots of different things and people in the world, and different people obsessed with different things. The things that people fascinated by could be anything, such as food, sports, even the person you appreciate. As for me, I’m so obsessed with Music. I love basically any kind of music, and any countries’ songs.

A song will be loved by me because of good lyrics. Sometimes lyrics tell a story, sometimes it shows someone’s emotion, and sometimes it also can let you think about your life and you can learn something from it. For example, ‘when I was your man’ was sung by Bruno Mars. This song was about a man missed his girlfriend after they broke up, and it was really moved me because of the lyrics, especially the rear section. The lyrics of this song exactly showed the mood of the man. The contrast between the front part of the song and the last part of the song was really great. That ‘I SHOULD have bought you flowers and held your hand.’ and ‘I hope HE buys you flowers, I hope HE holds your hand’ let me feel sad and moved even I have never experiences this before.

Another song that I really loved was Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’. This song was talk about people should spend time on self-introspect and help each other so that the world will be better. The main idea of this song is if you want to change the world, you should change yourself first. The lyrics that touched me in this song were that ‘I see the kids in the street, with not enough to eat. Who am I, to be blind? Pretending not to see their needs.’  This sentence was really let me think a lot, and thankfully, I changed myself to help people. See, these are how the lyrics work.

There was a thing about me that other people thought it was weird, is that I can weep when I listened a song that not Chinese or English. When my friends saw me tearing when I listened to a Korean song, they asked:

“Do you understand the meaning of the lyrics?”

“No.” I answered.

“So why you weeping?” they asked with very curious and surprised tone.

“Because.. yeah, I don’t understand the meaning of the lyrics. But I understand the meaning of the song. So, that’s why.”

As this conversation, it shows that my opinion is: there are no national boundaries in Music. Sometimes, I even prefer the song with the lyrics that I don’t understand than the lyrics that I understand. Why? Because if so, YOU can give the meaning of each lyrics, with no restrictions. You will be the king of this song. It’s maybe a little bit weird, but it makes sense. Furthermore, you will become more creative, and I really enjoy to give my own meaning of a song.

Music is really magical and fantastic, isn’t it? It can let you up when you down; it can make you to think a lot and love this world more; it can also bring you in other dramatic world and tell you something mysterious. So, that’s why I love Music so much. I am attracted by Music, now and forever.